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Editor, Senior Moderator
Nino D. Espinosa, 35 used to go to work every day as chef in a restaurant in Downtown Corpus Christi, he was non traditional student at DMC working full time, attending school full time and raising his two sons, he was a culinary arts major ? on April 2, Espinosa lost the battle to the H1N1 flu virus.
Espinosa?s death is the 11th H1N1-related in Nueces County since the first one reported May 2009. He came to the Del Mar College to fulfill his dream ? open his own restaurant.
?He wanted to do things the right way by returning to school,? said Espinosa?s sister Jennifer Garza.
This was Espinosa?s second semester at DMC. The Flour Bluff resident got up on Monday March 29, to go to work and returned home after not feeling good. According to Garza he went to the doctor that day but was not able to purchase his medication. On Tuesday March 30 Espinosa felt better and returned to his normal activities but on Wednesday he could not breath and checked into the Doctors Regional Medical Center. Garza said by Thursday Espinosa was on life support and died Friday April 2.
http://www.thedmcfoghorn.com/news/h1n1-claims-life-of-student-1.1428512
Espinosa?s death is the 11th H1N1-related in Nueces County since the first one reported May 2009. He came to the Del Mar College to fulfill his dream ? open his own restaurant.
?He wanted to do things the right way by returning to school,? said Espinosa?s sister Jennifer Garza.
This was Espinosa?s second semester at DMC. The Flour Bluff resident got up on Monday March 29, to go to work and returned home after not feeling good. According to Garza he went to the doctor that day but was not able to purchase his medication. On Tuesday March 30 Espinosa felt better and returned to his normal activities but on Wednesday he could not breath and checked into the Doctors Regional Medical Center. Garza said by Thursday Espinosa was on life support and died Friday April 2.
http://www.thedmcfoghorn.com/news/h1n1-claims-life-of-student-1.1428512