I've had the flu a number of times. Lay in bed, snooze, eat chicken soup (only homemade) take some pills and lots of cough medicine/syrup.
But the last time I go it, it almost killed me. February 2016. Could not stop coughing, had trouble breathing so I drove myself to the hospital. Parked my car and started walking to the ER. Got halfway there when I ran out of breath and had to sit down on the tarmac. THANK GOD 2 ambulance drivers saw me. One rushed over and asked if I was OK while the other ran into the ER to grab a wheelchair. They got me in the wheelchair and I passed out.
1 hour later I woke up in Intensive care with a breathing tube down my throat, an oxygen mask on my face and 4 different drips going into the back of my hand. When they saw I had come to the removed the breathing tube and started feeding me Theraflu pills. I was on straight oxygen for 4 days. I could barely move any of my limbs let alone get out of bed.
I spent another 3 days there and was finally strong enough to walk up and down a 30 foot hallway 3X in a row. I also had to show them I could go to the bathroom by myself. The nurse hands me two containers . . . I ask what the second one is for . . . stool sample. "Lady I haven't eaten anything in 7 days! Forget about the stool sample." They had no idea that I was going to walk out to the parking lot, get in my car and drive home. I told them my son was coming to pick me up.
I had Oxygen delivered to my home and spent another week with one of those things that goes in your nose.
October 2016 I got a flu shot. And for 2017, 2018 and 2019. I will get one this October. No flu since then.
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