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Adeline Fagan, a second-year OB-GYN resident in Houston, died early Saturday after a couple-month-long battle with covid-19, her family announced in a post on a GoFundMe page. in her name.
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Fagan had just started his second year of residency in Houston when he fell ill, says the GoFundMe page.
While primarily working on baby delivery, Fagan was doing an emergency room rotation treating covid patients, the post says.
Adeline Fagan
Despite a history of asthma, upper respiratory infections and pneumonia, her sisters shared with CNN affiliate KHOU that going to work was "what (Adeline) wanted to do."
"She wanted to get out of bed every morning, bring children into the world and help women," Maureen Fagan told KHOU.
It felt good
Adeline Fagan arrived on the morning of July 8 feeling good and "excited to see patients," but on the night of her 12-hour shift, she began to feel "bad," the initial post on her GoFundMe page read.
His symptoms were mostly severe, flu-like, escalating within a week to hospitalization.
He spent weeks in the hospital battling COVID-19, given several different respiratory therapies, and administered dozens of medications, none of which responded positively.
On August 3, before entering a trial of an experimental drug, Adeline had to be intubated and placed on a ventilator because her lungs could no longer support her, says the GoFundMe post.
On August 4, she was placed on ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, to oxygenate her blood while the ventilator opened her lungs using positive pressure.
Fagan's family projected on the GoFundMe page that he would be on ventilator and ECMO for six to eight weeks in the hopes that his lungs would heal on its own.
I was 28 years old
Fagan did not survive.
She was 28, according to her sister, Maureen Fagan.
“The moment when the world stopped for a moment and will never be the same again.
Our beautiful daughter, sister, friend, doctor, Adeline Marie Fagan, MD passed away, ”read the message, written by Fagan's father, Brant, on Saturday morning.
Adeline Fagan's sister, Natalie Fagan, told KHOU that "her sister has always wanted to be a doctor."
"She fought for it," Natalie Fagan said.
"She fought hard.
She studied hard.
She studied very hard and got there.
Adeline Fagan with her parents.
The GoFundMe post continued to thank everyone who had supported Adeline Fagan.
Since its inception on August 10, the GoFundMe page has raised more than $ 160,000 from more than 3,000 donors.
"Even in these darkest times, there are good people willing to share a part of themselves for the sake of another," wrote Fagan's father.
«To be an 'Adeline' in the world»
He also encouraged mourners to "be an 'Adeline' in the world."
To be passionate about helping the less fortunate, to have a smile on your face, a laugh in your heart and a Disney tune on your lips.
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Adeline Fagan had done well in the last days of her life and the family had received a good report on Friday night, the publication said.
Fagan's parents, who reside in New York but had traveled to Houston to be with their daughter, received a phone call Friday night after one of Adeline's nurses found her unconscious.
A CT scan revealed enormous damage caused by a brain hemorrhage and his medical team was seeking permission to perform a pressure-relieving procedure.
"The neurosurgeon said there was a '1 in a million' chance that she would even survive the procedure, but that Adeline would have several severe sensory and cognitive limitations if she survived," the statement read.
Coronavirus in young people
As of September 16, 2020, 1,405 people aged 25 to 34 had died from Covid-19 of the so far 182,095 deaths from the virus nationwide, according to the website of the Centers for Control and Prevention. of Diseases.
The family did not respond to an email sent to the GoFundMe page.
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