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Bartak-Jensen's fight defies odds
Medical miracle • Brooke Bartak-Jensen, a Ewing native now living in Omaha, her husband Nick and their daughters. After a November birthday celebration, Bartak-Jensen became ill, as three illnesses merged to create a not-so-perfect storm. Doctors gave her a 1% chance of survival. She has proved them wrong.
In a season that celebrates hope and new life, Brooke Bartak-Jensen - a Ewing native who lives in Omaha - is living her own version of a miracle.
Two days after tying balloons for her daughters' birthday party, Bartak-Jensen's body began to shut down.
What started as a sore finger turned into a medical catastrophe - sepsis, a rare blood-clotting disorder, and flesh-eating infection - that left doctors giving her just a 1% chance to live.
Before the first weekend in November, two days before going to the hospital, Bartak-Jensen was doing what moms do: celebrating her daughters.
With birthdays o...
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