http://m.phillytrib.com/news/health/article_318a254f-8dc9-561f-825b-f8e7e9f2035f.html?mode=jqm
The H1N1 virus threatened the United States in 2009 and killed 17,000 people worldwide in that year alone. Now five years later it has returned. Terri Thieret thought she just had a regular cough in January and it turned out to be a life-threatening virus. She was put into a medically induced coma for almost three months, while on the machine ECMO. The machine ECMO takes the blood out of your body, filters out the carbon dioxide replacing it with oxygen then pumps it back into your body. This machine has let people survive the H1N1 virus and eventually helps them to be released from the hospital. Thieret is married to her husband Joe and has two daughters Madison and Ashton. They received help from many places like her mom's colleagues, their church, and family and friends. By late February Thieret was beginning to show signs of improvement when her lung scan began clearing. Missing three months of their daughters life and one of her daughter's birthday hit her hard but they were all glad to just have her alive and getting well.
"Treatment Saves Nurse's Life from H1N1 Flu." The Philadelphia Tribune. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. <http://m.phillytrib.com/news/health/article_318a254f-8dc9-561f-825b-f8e7e9f2035f.html?mode=jqm>.
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