A pregnant Scottish woman who had to be flown to Sweden for life-saving treatment for swine flu has spoken for the first time of her ordeal¹.

一位曾经被飞机运送到瑞典接受猪流感治疗的苏格兰怀孕妇女，就此次痛苦的经历首次发表感想。

Ms Pentleton woke up scared in a Swedish hospital

Sharon Pentleton told the BBC's Panorama² that she was "terrified" after she woke up in a foreign hospital hooked up to a ventilator（通风机，换气扇）.

She had to be put on a lung bypass（之路，旁道） machine to allow her lungs a chance to recover from the illness.

At the time of the outbreak in July, no machines were available in UK.

"I was terrified, I did not realise where I was or anything so, and they were talking strange," she told the BBC's Sophie Raworth. "I was hooked up to all sorts of machines, I don't know...I had a ventilator."

No beds

At six months pregnant, Ms Pentleton, of North Ayrshire, originally went to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock with severe back pain and was initially³ treated for appendicitis⁴（阑尾炎，盲肠炎） before the diagnosis⁵ of swine flu.

After her condition rapidly deteriorated⁶（恶化） and she slipped into a coma⁷（昏迷）, doctors decided⁸ she required the bypass procedure known as extra corporeal⁹（肉体的，有形的） membrane¹⁰ oxygenation (ECMO).

The machine takes over the lung function and adds oxygen to the blood, allowing the lungs to recover and medication（药物治疗） to treat infection to take hold.

There are only five dedicated¹¹ adult ECMO beds in Britain, located at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester and none were available when she was struck down.

In Stockholm, she spent almost two weeks hooked up to the machine and had to have a tracheotomy（气管切开术） to aid her breathing.

"It was really really horrible, that's the only way I can describe it and then I had all these tubes, couldn't breathe on my own," she said, adding that the true threat to her life only hit her once she was flown home in mid-August and later released from hospital.

"I think it really only sank in when I come home...when I entered the house, that's when I realised exactly what had happened."

'Wee miracle'

Despite now being recovered, Ms Pentleton said she is still fearful of the illness, especially given how sick she became despite not having any previous health issues.

"I'm still quite scared, I don't like to think about it. I realise how close I was to not being here so I still kind of worry about it. And every sight, like wee sniffle（抽鼻涕，哽咽） or something I'm really panicking."

Ms Pentleton, who is already the mother of a two-year-old daughter, said she still suffers from shortness of breath and worried about giving birth next month.

She also fears for her unborn son.

"They've told me he's still active and he's still growing fine. They told me nothing to worry about with him, because I was worrying about brain damage because everything that I've been through and the medication I've been on.

"But they say there's just a slight chance, they can't tell you 100% but they say its very unlikely that he's been damaged in any way - which is a wee（极小的） miracle."

Ms Pentleton and her family had words of praise for the medical teams both in Scotland and Sweden who cared for her.

They have launched a fundraising（资金募集） campaign to help raise the money for Scotland to buy and run its own dedicated adult ECMO unit.