Via Honululu Advertiser, a dear mom's powerful mission, excerpt :
" A Honolulu woman who lost her 27-year-old son to the H1N1 virus is starting a group to educate others about the deadly potential of swine flu.
Sharon McFadden's son, Jacob Ryan Schmidt of Baytown, Texas, died April 28 of the H1N1 virus and the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome that followed.
The Kailua High School graduate "was strong, vivacious, young and gone in five weeks from the time he got the symptoms until his passing," McFadden said.
When Schmidt died, the medical team caring for him at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston "said he had no lungs left," McFadden said. McFadden's offer to donate one of her lungs was refused because doctors said Schmidt wouldn't survive the transplant.
Schmidt first felt ordinary flu symptoms on March 25. Within days he was at a Baytown hospital's emergency room, complaining that he "felt like he was going to die," McFadden said. But tests for H1N1 were negative and he was sent home with drugs to treat pneumonia."
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