A 4-year-old Iowa girl was blinded and nearly died after catching the flu, according to a report.

Jade DeLucia, who didn’t receive a flu shot this season, got sick a few days before Christmas and spent nearly two weeks in the intensive care unit at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

“She is lucky to be alive,” one of her doctors, Theresa Czech, told CNN last week. “She’s a little fighter. And I think she’s super lucky.”

Jade began to feel ill Dec. 19. Her symptoms progressed until the morning of Christmas Eve, when her dad Stephen DeLucia went to check on her and found her in bed unresponsive, with her body burning hot, the outlet reported.

“I was like, ‘We have to go. We have to go to the emergency room. This isn’t right. Something’s not right with her,” mom Amanda Phillips recalled.

The parents rushed Jade to the hospital — where she began to have a seizure, they told the outlet.

On Christmas Day, they found out Jade was suffering from encephalopathy, a known complication of the flu affecting the brain.

“They said she had significant brain damage. They said our child might not ever wake up, and if she did, she might not ever be the same,” Phillips said.

Czech, a pediatric neurologist, diagnosed Jade with acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or ANE, a type of encephalopathy usually caused by a viral infection. She prescribed steroids to help with the swelling in her brain.

Eventually, on Jan. 1, Jade woke up and began to get gradually better over the next few days. But then, Phillips noticed that Jade wouldn’t look at her favorite stuffed animal, a white unicorn, even when it was in front of her face.

“[The flu] affected the part of her brain that perceives sight, and we don’t know if she’s going to get her vision back,” said Czech.

“In about three-to-six months from now, we’ll know. Whatever recovery she has at six months, that’s likely all she’s going to get.”

Jade might also have cognitive or developmental problems, such as learning disabilities, Czech added.

The girl’s parents are warning others to get their children vaccinated.

“If I can stop one child from getting sick, that’s what I want to do,” said Phillips. “It’s terrible to see your child suffer like this.”

“We want parents to know they should get a flu shot every season,” she added.

At least 32 children in the US have died from the flu this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control.