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She had to have an emergency nine-hour surgery A teenager thought she had a bad cold, but it turned out to be something far scarier. Orbital cellulitis is a serious infection of the fat and muscles around the eye, and she was told it was caused by her cold turning into a sinus infection. The next day, my brother messaged his work friend whose wife is an ophthalmologist and she said I need to go to hospital because she thinks I have orbital cellulitis, which can be fatal. Unsurprisingly, the teenager was terrified when doctors shared their concerns: "I was really scared, I broke down, they told me this could be fatal, I could be paralysed... it could turn into meningitis.""