Devin McGrath doesn't remember much from two weeks ago.

But she knows she almost died Feb. 13.

That was the morning her mother found the 16-year-old unresponsive in the family's Robinson home.

Since then it has been a whirlwind: an ebb and flow of uncertainty, unanswered questions, answered prayers, some moments of unfathomable anxiety and a quantification of exactly how many people care deeply about this radiant, yet tremendously serious high school star athlete.

Doctors have yet to pin down what exactly it is that afflicts Devin McGrath.

She rested atop a stack of pillows and under a mound of blankets yesterday afternoon in a bed at Children's Hospital in Oakland. It was her 11th day there -- about the last place anyone thought they'd see one of the WPIAL's finest all-around female athletes.

"I just want out of this place," said Devin, looking up from her hospital bed as machines flanked her.

A junior at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School in Coraopolis, Devin is a bona fide star in basketball (averaging 17.3 points per game this season), softball and volleyball.

But sports suddenly became secondary on Feb. 13, when Bea McGrath had to make a hurried 911 call after finding her daughter unresponsive, with her eyes rolled back in her head, just after 8 a.m.

Devin had been suffering from flu-like symptoms the previous few days and had visited her pediatrician just two days before.

When Mrs. McGrath found Devin, it set in motion a chain of events no parent ever wants to endure.

An ambulance arrived at the home soon thereafter, but due to ice that morning it had trouble getting close to the family's door, forcing Robinson Police Chief Dale Vietmeier, who also responded, to carry Devin to the ambulance.

She was rushed to Ohio Valley General Hospital, where a lumbar puncture was quickly performed.

Soon after, Devin was transferred to Children's, where her condition worsened through the evening.

After 11 p.m. on Feb. 13, doctors put Devin on a ventilator.

"They told us then that she was 'gravely ill,' " her father, Tim, explained. "They never tell you point blank that you almost lost your daughter, but we knew that was the case at that time."

Devin was placed in an induced coma at that point, where she remained until Feb. 17.

Last week, she developed pancreatitis and has slowly been recovering.

Unable to eat or drink anything, she has gradually been making strides. Although incessantly tired, she's able to speak just fine -- boasting yesterday how she still possesses her pinpoint jump shot.

She did notch a victory yesterday, walking three laps around her floor at Children's when, early last week, she was able to complete just one.

"I'm a beast," she said jokingly. "I'm going to set a record for laps around because I don't like second place. That is just a nice way of calling you the first loser."

Obviously, Devin didn't play in OLSH's first three basketball playoff games or the Chargers' WPIAL Class AA championship game loss to South Park on Saturday.

Tim and Bea McGrath have heard all kinds of rumors as to why their daughter missed OLSH's WPIAL playoff run.

But the truth is, the McGraths -- or perhaps more importantly in this instance, doctors -- don't know exactly what has made Devin ill.

"We know how rumors can start," Mrs. McGrath said. "We just kind of wanted to get it out there, and let everyone know, that this was nothing more than a severe infection that just rapidly attacked her body and, since then, she has been recovering and doing better every day."

Mr. McGrath added, "All we know is that she contracted a severe infection that attacked her very fast. And we might never know exactly what it is."

There is no timeline on how long Devin -- who has lost 12 pounds -- will be hospitalized or what twists or curves her road to recovery could take.

But even as the uncertainly radiates about what exactly ails Devin, an undeniable certainty pervades -- there has been an immense outpouring of support for her.

When asked how many people have visited her in the last week, Devin glanced up from her resting spot atop six pillows and said, "It seems like about 100 and everyone has been awesome. I've never been hugged and kissed so much."

To that end, there has been a constant stream of teammates visiting Children's.

The Beaver Area girls' basketball team -- perhaps OLSH's fiercest rival -- has sent two cards.

The girls on Sto-Rox's basketball team sent a card as well.

There have been so many visitors that Mr. McGrath joked, "Just tell the people at the front entrance that you are here for 'Devin,' you don't even need to say her last name, and they know what room to send you to."

Devin was able to spring free from the monotony of Children's briefly on Saturday. It was recommended to Mrs. McGrath from a doctor treating Devin that it might do wonders for her psyche to let Devin attend part of Saturday's championship game at Duquesne University's A.J. Palumbo Center.

In doing so, it would be the ultimate surprise to her teammates, who never envisioned she'd be well enough to make it.

But there was a strict rule -- no more than two hours and she had to be back to her hospital room.

So just after halftime Saturday, a maroon van pulled up near a back entrance to the Palumbo Center and Devin, seated in a wheelchair, was rolled through a rear hallway and into a tunnel just off the playing floor.

As she came into sight of the OLSH student section, the crowd erupted with the loudest applause of the day, quickly beginning a "We love Devin" chant that bounced through the building.

From there, she was wheeled to a spot near the end of the OLSH bench, where she took in the remainder of the contest with her mom and dad. She was awarded a silver medal along with her team after OLSH's loss and, before being whisked back to Children's, Devin stopped briefly to chat with her teammates -- many of them crying because of the mixture of sadness from the loss and joy of seeing their teammate outside of a hospital room for the first time in over a week.

Of the game, Devin, the ultimate competitor said, "I hated watching it because I should have been playing in it. Having to sit there and watch was the worst. But I am so proud of the girls on our team because they played so hard. They played hard, they were motivated."

They sure were, and, truth is, they should have been, with an infinite amount of motivation sitting right there at the end of the bench in the second half.