Limerick Resident Doing Well After H1N1 Scare

The following comes from Gary Puelo of The Times Herald:

In late September, the Norristown Area High School teacher looked healthfully radiant as she sat in the cozy living room of her Limerick home and calmly recalled the litany of medical horrors that followed the premature births of twins Aubrey and Courtney after an H1N1 viral infection sparked numerous complications.

“Initially when I went to the emergency room at Phoenixville Hospital they thought I just had an upper respiratory infection,” she recalled of that day in February.

After giving birth to healthy twins on Feb. 16 and going into cardiac arrest, Kristi was flown to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and was hooked up to an ECMO life support machine...

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