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To: DWPittelli
Influenza nearly killed me about 15 years ago. I caught a dose of the strain that was going around that year. I thought initially that I had a cold,and went home to sleep it off.

The next morning when I woke up,I was on my back,and there was so much goop in my lungs that my first breath triggered my gag reflex,and I started throwing up. Unfortunately,I was too weak to turn over immediately.

Of all the ignominius ways to check out,drowning in your own puke in your own bed is probably pretty high up on the list-finally I managed to turn over and get some air in my lungs,but I was quite literally a few seconds away from choking to death. The lesson is TAKE THE FLU SERIOUSLY!!!

18 posted on 08/30/2002 7:17:59 PM PDT by sawsalimb
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To: sawsalimb
15 years ago. That was around the time I had the worst flu ever. I had a fever of 103 for 5 days and I couldn't stay warm. It took me a while to get over that one.
24 posted on 08/30/2002 10:40:44 PM PDT by DBtoo
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