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Man loses battle with H1N1 at Indy hospital
Updated: Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 1:14 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009, 5:57 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The family of a man who spent weeks in the intensive care unit at Wishard Hospital says he has died from H1N1 complications.
Gretchen Arregoita told 24-Hour News 8 her boyfriend, Hilario Martinez, has passed away.
Last week, Arregoita said Martinez had a breathing tube with a ventilator that breathed for him. She also said Martinez was on oxygen and in a drug-induced coma.
"It started off with just a cough, a normal cough," Arregoita
said. "We both got sick with what we thought was just a cold. He
went and got a penicillin injection, plus he got antibiotics, plus
he was taking Tylenol. He called me and he said, 'I'm getting
sicker. I want to go to the hospital.'"
Hear more from Arregoita by clicking on the video link in the
left margin of the story.
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