'Fit and healthy' nurse left fighting for her life after catching flu

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A nurse is fighting for her life in hospital after a nasty bout of the flu led to her undergoing open- heart surgery. Kate Thomas, 33, underwent the emergency procedure last week and remains in a coma, reports the Liverpool Echo.

The 33-year-old's decline in health began when she fell ill with cold symptoms around a fortnight ago. Kate initially had a cold and a cough but her symptoms began to ease before getting worse, according to her mum Alison Thomas.She said: "About two weeks ago she had a cough and a cold, with the usual cold symptoms.

Then it kind of got better after a week, but it then got worse."Last Tuesday (November 29), it got worse again, Kate felt really weak, she couldn’t stand up and she felt really dizzy."She left it until Thursday and rang us to say she didn’t feel well.

Her sister went to her and they rang 111."She then got told that she would get a call from the GP, who said it sounded like influenza and told her to rest, drink plenty of fluids and stay at home.