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Source: http://wcco.com/health/flu/michael.milbrath.h1n1.2.1376960.html
Dec 17, 2009 7:12 pm US/Central
Family Mourns Father, Urges H1N1 Flu Vaccination
Reporting
Frank Vascellaro
(WCCO)
"We've got many wonderful pictures of the wedding day," said Cheryl Milbrath, as she paged through a photo album. "Precious now, precious pictures."
In October, Cheryl's husband Mike got a fever and ended up in the hospital.
"Like you could tell he was sick, but he's like, 'Oh, this is just precautionary, I'm going to be fine,'" recalled daughter Abby Gibson.
"It just never crossed our minds that he would die from H1N1," said daughter Kate Kupcho.
On Oct. 24, after a week-and-a-half in the hospital, Mike Milbrath died. He was only 54, a healthy man with no underlying health problems.
As a health administrator at Waseca Medical Center, Mike used to come home and tell Cheryl about the steps his hospital was taking to guard against H1N1. Because he didn't work directly with patients, Mike wasn't eligible to get vaccinated.
"He was just very concerned that people were not taking it seriously enough. And he said, 'There's going to be a pandemic, and people are going to die,'" Cheryl recalled. "And never in a million years did we think it would be him."
"He'd love this time of the year," said Kupcho. "He would always say, 'Oh, now all my girls are home.'"
Mike Milbrath's girls want people to take H1N1 seriously.
"Tomorrow's not guaranteed. It could affect anybody. That's what's so scary about it. A healthy 54-year-old man, you know?" said Gibson.
"If you can get the vaccine, get the vaccine," urged Kupcho. "Be contentious of everyone else, was your hands, just those simple things that you can do/"
Mike's family won't ever forget the guy who loved his faith, his family and the Minnesota Twins. He was "understanding, joked around, easy to be with," said daughter Shelby.
They know Mike would have wanted everyone to get vaccinated against H1N1, especially now that vaccine is available to the general population.
"In Minnesota alone there's 44 families that are going through the same thing that we're going through, and I would hate for anybody else to go through this," Cheryl said.
Paula Engelking, Producer
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Dec 17, 2009 7:12 pm US/Central
Family Mourns Father, Urges H1N1 Flu Vaccination
Reporting
Frank Vascellaro
(WCCO)
"We've got many wonderful pictures of the wedding day," said Cheryl Milbrath, as she paged through a photo album. "Precious now, precious pictures."
In October, Cheryl's husband Mike got a fever and ended up in the hospital.
"Like you could tell he was sick, but he's like, 'Oh, this is just precautionary, I'm going to be fine,'" recalled daughter Abby Gibson.
"It just never crossed our minds that he would die from H1N1," said daughter Kate Kupcho.
On Oct. 24, after a week-and-a-half in the hospital, Mike Milbrath died. He was only 54, a healthy man with no underlying health problems.
As a health administrator at Waseca Medical Center, Mike used to come home and tell Cheryl about the steps his hospital was taking to guard against H1N1. Because he didn't work directly with patients, Mike wasn't eligible to get vaccinated.
"He was just very concerned that people were not taking it seriously enough. And he said, 'There's going to be a pandemic, and people are going to die,'" Cheryl recalled. "And never in a million years did we think it would be him."
"He'd love this time of the year," said Kupcho. "He would always say, 'Oh, now all my girls are home.'"
Mike Milbrath's girls want people to take H1N1 seriously.
"Tomorrow's not guaranteed. It could affect anybody. That's what's so scary about it. A healthy 54-year-old man, you know?" said Gibson.
"If you can get the vaccine, get the vaccine," urged Kupcho. "Be contentious of everyone else, was your hands, just those simple things that you can do/"
Mike's family won't ever forget the guy who loved his faith, his family and the Minnesota Twins. He was "understanding, joked around, easy to be with," said daughter Shelby.
They know Mike would have wanted everyone to get vaccinated against H1N1, especially now that vaccine is available to the general population.
"In Minnesota alone there's 44 families that are going through the same thing that we're going through, and I would hate for anybody else to go through this," Cheryl said.
Paula Engelking, Producer
More articles:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130130&highlight=milbrath
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=129914&highlight=milbrath