MOSES LAKE, Wash. -- The husband of a Moses Lake woman, who is suspected of dying of swine flu, is hoping his wife's story will keep others from dying.
58-year-old Janis Hagy died on October 21 at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane. Janis was an E.R. nurse and she liked the night shift. She treated gunshots and knife wounds. She was even flown to help out victims in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1994.
"Nurses are supposed to be invincible but we got her to the hospital and they x-ray'd her and found she had double pneumonia and it went south from there," said Scott Hagy.
Doctors told Scott they suspected H1N1 flu. Janis remembered being coughed on by a flu patient at work. Grant County didn't have enough flu vaccine until after Janis got sick. She had a 105 degree fever for several days.
A few days later, Janis was flown to Deaconess Hospital in Spokane and put on life support.
"She looked at me with tears in her eyes...that was her goodbye," said Scott. He made the decision to take his wife off of life support.
The Grant County Health Department says tests have not come back yet. They don't know for sure Janis had H1N1. But Scott says whatever it was, no one should have to watch a loved one get it. And he's hoping Janis's story will help save someones life.
