A common illness "obliterated" an RAF veteran's health and almost cost him his life.
When Mark Beech was rushed to hospital with breathing problems, he didn't expect to wake up in intensive care more than two weeks later, and that his life would be permanently changed.
Mark had contracted the H1N1 strain of flu, which was putting extreme pressure on his body. Fearing he might not pull through, doctors at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd called his daughters to his bedside twice.
