"She's not coherent and she can't respond to commands from the nurses yet, but that's expected," said Rob Pearce, 25. "It's going to be a slow recovery so they are telling me to be patient, but she is slowly waking up."
The fast deterioration of the Calgary mother was shocking, said Pearce.
"She's the epitome of health," Pearce said. "She just went from being perfectly healthy to ridiculously sick in a very short period of time and the doctors aren't even sure why."
Pearce said doctors at Rockyview General Hospital put Bates in an induced coma last Wednesday because she couldn't breathe on her own and doctors wanted to control her lung functions. "She had complete respiratory failure."
Although rare, other Canadians have also been put into medically induced comas after being diagnosed with H1N1. Cases include a Nanaimo, British Columbia man, 41, who was placed in an induced coma after his kidneys shut down, and a Montreal woman, 23, who died after being put into an induced coma after giving birth to a son in June.
So far, the Public Health Agency of Canada has reported 135 deaths H1N1 nationally.
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