According to PEOPLE, lesions eventually formed on her legs and arms. Her chronic pain began with asthma attacks and severe headaches. Maya Kowalski began experiencing her symptoms when she was nine years old.
Keep reading for everything we know about the case. It’s a horrific and tragic tale that investigators are still working to unpack. Take Care of Maya uses exclusive interviews with the Kowalski family to unpack a medical mystery that led to grave consequences. They hoped to find another medical treatment that could cure Maya’s pain, but instead, they found themselves at the center of a child abuse investigation.
The treatment worked for a while, but its effects eventually wore off, which led Jack and Beata to take their daughter to the Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Her former doctor, Anthony Kirkpatrick, described it as “an abnormal function of the sympathetic nervous system.your senses get ramped up so if a drop of water touches your skin, it can feel like somebody’s jabbing you with a knife.” Kirkpatrick prescribed Ketamine treatments to Maya to manage the pain.Īt one point, the Kowalski family took Maya to a hospital in Monterrey, Mexico, where she was put into a ketamine coma. In 2015, Jack and Beata Kowalski were searching for a way to help their daughter Maya, who lived with CRPS-otherwise known as complex regional pain syndrome. Take Care of Maya follows the Kowalski family. Netflix’s new documentary, Take Care of Maya, explores one family’s nightmarish experience after admitting their child to a hospital for chronic pain. But in some cases, the medical staff falls short. When visiting a hospital, you expect a certain level of care, a listening ear, and hopefully, a solution for whatever brought you in.
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