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WHITTIER - A local college student who didn't let a lifetime of health issues impede her dreams died Thursday from complications of the H1N1 virus.
Melanie Sorensen, who was born with an inherited degenerative syndrome that resulted in a kidney transplant when she was 2, was a sophomore at Whittier College with a double major in English and U.S. history.
"She was an amazing young woman," said her mom, Joi Sorensen.
Melanie Sorensen, 20, complained of a cold March 2, but by March 5, she was not feeling well, her breathing labored, and was taken to UCLA Medical Center.
Doctors told her parents, Joi, 51, and Birk, 55, she was suffering from something more serious than a cold.
She was suffering with the H1N1 virus.
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_17720577
Melanie Sorensen, who was born with an inherited degenerative syndrome that resulted in a kidney transplant when she was 2, was a sophomore at Whittier College with a double major in English and U.S. history.
"She was an amazing young woman," said her mom, Joi Sorensen.
Melanie Sorensen, 20, complained of a cold March 2, but by March 5, she was not feeling well, her breathing labored, and was taken to UCLA Medical Center.
Doctors told her parents, Joi, 51, and Birk, 55, she was suffering from something more serious than a cold.
She was suffering with the H1N1 virus.
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_17720577