Tonka
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Friday 14 January 2011
Source: http://www.leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk/news/new_mother_in_coma_fighting_h1n1_1_2307925
New mother in coma fighting H1N1
Published on Fri Jan 14 15:13:31 GMT 2011
A young mother from Gloucester is fighting for her life in hospital after contracting the swine flu virus H1N1.
Leanne Gunnell, 21, suffered brain damage when doctors put her in a coma to save her unborn child. Faith was delivered by caesarean at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital weighing just 3lb.
While she makes good progress and will be sent home in a few weeks, her grandparents fear her mother will never recover and they may have to switch of her life-support machine.....
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Four days later when Miss Gunnell was still unwell her parents took her to see the out of hours GP service and a doctor repeated the same diagnosis. But the next day she was rushed to hospital by ambulance coughing up blood amid fears she had pneumonia.
Source: http://www.leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk/news/new_mother_in_coma_fighting_h1n1_1_2307925
New mother in coma fighting H1N1
Published on Fri Jan 14 15:13:31 GMT 2011
A young mother from Gloucester is fighting for her life in hospital after contracting the swine flu virus H1N1.
Leanne Gunnell, 21, suffered brain damage when doctors put her in a coma to save her unborn child. Faith was delivered by caesarean at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital weighing just 3lb.
While she makes good progress and will be sent home in a few weeks, her grandparents fear her mother will never recover and they may have to switch of her life-support machine.....
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Four days later when Miss Gunnell was still unwell her parents took her to see the out of hours GP service and a doctor repeated the same diagnosis. But the next day she was rushed to hospital by ambulance coughing up blood amid fears she had pneumonia.