rob wrote:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20091202/articles/912029962&tc=yahoo
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With a pediatrician for a father and an intensive care nurse for a mother, it was no surprise Allison Kay Blackstone Sewell wanted to work in medicine, her father said Wednesday.
“She began to catch the vision,” Thomas Blackstone said about Sewell, who had attended Miller-Motte College to pursue a nursing career. “She had worked at the rehab center and really enjoyed helping people.”
Sewell, a 22-year-old wife and mother from Wilmington, died this week from what is suspected to be complications from the H1N1 virus.
She died Monday at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, days after suddenly getting sick and being put on a ventilator at the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Tests at the hospital showed she had influenza A, Blackstone said.
New Hanover County Health Department officials said a test is pending at the state public health lab to subtype the sample and to confirm if the flu strain was the H1N1 virus.
This article made my stomach form a knot. You left out the part about her coughing up blood.
H1N1 suspected in death of 22-year-old nursing student
By Vicky Eckenrode
Vicky.Eckenrode@StarNewsOnline.comPublished: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 4:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 4:43 p.m.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/articl...912029962/1004Allison Blackstone Sewell, shown here with her husband and 2-year-old daughter, died this week.
With a pediatrician for a father and an intensive care nurse for a mother, it was no surprise Allison Kay Blackstone Sewell wanted to work in medicine, her father said Wednesday.
Sewell, a 22-year-old wife and mother from Wilmington, died this week from what is suspected to be complications from the H1N1 virus.
She died Monday at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, days after suddenly getting sick and being put on a ventilator at the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Tests at the hospital showed she had influenza A, Blackstone said.
New Hanover County Health Department officials said a test is pending at the state public health lab to subtype the sample and to confirm if the flu strain was the H1N1 virus.
Blackstone, a pediatrician at Cape Fear Pediatrics, has been well aware of the virus since it began circulating in the spring, seeing the impact it’s had on sick patients.
He said he had an H1N1 vaccine available for Sewell, who because of her age and the fact she was asthmatic was considered to be in a high-risk group and eligible for the shot.
“She had been too sick to get her vaccine,” Blackstone said. “I had one for her, but she was ill.”
Suffering from side pains, Sewell had an outpatient gallbladder surgery two weeks ago, her father said.
She started showing signs of serious flu-like symptoms.
“Within 48 hours, she was coughing up blood,” Blackstone said.
His daughter’s death was a shock for the family.
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