Battiste Fenwick

Adonai, her four year-old son barely understands what his father is going through. "They feed him through the arm, because he is not doing well."

Battiste Fenwick

In order to focus on her husband's convalescence, this former supermarket employee quit her job. A financial sacrifice which she bears with the help of her family. Her grandmother looks after Adonai, while her cousin Jenny accompanies her almost every day to visit her husband at the hospital.

Battiste Fenwick

The thing Diana regrets the most today is that she didn't bring her husband to the hospital as soon as the first symptoms appeared. "He was getting worse every day and the treatment that the doctor had given him was upsetting him even more. I ended up taking him here on Wednesday April 15th. This is where they recently discovered that what has been affecting him is the H1N1 virus."

Battiste Fenwick Diana and her cousin Jenny, in front of the INER (National Institute of Respiratory Illnesses), where Ricardo is hospitalised.

It's time for Diana's daily visit. She is allowed half an hour. She watches her husband from behind a glass pane as he lies between life and death.

Battiste Fenwick