I don’t remember the exact year- but I remember my whole family had it and we were so sick we skipped Christmas, none of us even cared about our presents under the tree until about New Years. The sickest I have ever been, I thought we were all going to die from that stuff.
1968 or 69?
The Hong Kong flu?
I remember everyone in the family being sick, some more so than others.
Might have been that same year for me as well...
I stopped over to my folks house for dinner and left ten days later - I was that sick.
I had the shakes/shivers so bad I laid in the bathtub for a night and a day with all the hot water added from the stove my parents could heat just to keep warm and stop shaking. The hot water heater could not keep up.
The local hospital was only admitting the elderly.
I hope I’m never that sick again.