I’ve been reading up on flus and emerging diseases since I first heard about SARS; it’s one of my interests.
In the fall of 2009 hub and I took care to avoid catching the swine H1N1 because I knew it did not present like the regular flu. I have asthma and get sicker than other people when I get respiratory ailments.
So, we did get it, from one man who worked on our property for one day with hub. It was the strangest flu I ever had, bar none. Total drugged spaced out feeling as though I was going to die but didn’t care. Could NOT breathe, one day I figured I’d have to call 911 if lungs did not improve; hub was 400 miles away working so could not help. Took me at least one month to sort of recuperate; lung function has been a bit diminished ever since. Swine H1N1 can affect the CNS (note the super drugged out feeling many pepole had with it), cause back, neck pain, vicious headaches, kidney, liver and/or heart problems. Actual brain lesions in some people. Another “funny” thing we both noticed was brain malfunctions for months afterwards - for instance, thinking we said one word but really saying a totally different word, etc.
It was (is?) NOT a regular flu. And the CDC numbers on everything are nothing but cooked books. Many more people died with swine flu than regular flu. The CDC is as untrustworthy as the WHO which is headed by Margaret Chan, a tool of the PRC.
That is it, exactly.
I almost feel like I’ve got polio or something.
-Everything- aches like hell and I don’t ‘feel like myself’, if that makes sense.
Ordinarily I’m sharp as a razor but now I feel ‘dumbed down’, for the lack of a better term.
Back in ‘93, I got smoke inhalation double pneumonia.
[the incident where one of my dogs saved me by jumping on my chest to ‘bring me back’ after the wood stove back-drafted, filling the house with thick smoke]
I’m very susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonia, etc now because of that.
We didn’t even know what was going on until a friend who lives on the other side of the ridge mentioned to hubby that he and his wife were laid out with the same thing.
I trust the CDC almost as much as I trust our TOTUS.
[I pinged Shibumi because he’s patiently listened to my griping throughout all of this]