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LEE’S
SUMMIT, Mo. — The family of a Blue Springs woman is in disbelief that just days
after she turned 37, they’re faced with saying goodbye. They say Kristie Green
died from complications of the flu even though she had been vaccinated. She is
the second flu death at The University of Kansas Hospital this season.
“She
could always make me laugh,” said Green’s daughter, Latool Williams.
Green,
a moth
Green,
a mother of three and grandmother of one, became sick December 19, her 37th
birthday. Williams says within two days, her mother went to two hospitals, was
told she had Type A flu, and was sent home. Williams says Green went to the
hospital a third time as she fought for every breath, and was transferred to The
University of Kansas Hospital.
“She
just looked so different and swollen and terrible,” said Williams.
Williams
says her mother was placed on an ECMO machine that does the work of the heart
and lungs. She showed some signs of improvement, but the flu had led to a staph
infection that eventually overwhelmed her body. She died the day after
Christmas.
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