[homeschool mama]

I wasn't aware that's how it began. We'll be studying that era of history soon...it's time for further research! :o)

[crazykatz]

I was a teenager when the Flu hit back in 1957. I became ill with it and since my Dad was in th Army, I was in a military hospital in S.C. It was packed woth a bunch of little kids and teens like myself. WE WERE SO SICK!! I remember thinking that my grandfather was standing next to me.... but he lived 200+ miles away. I was having "visions" and talking to people not there.

It was a HORRIBLE experience.

Had the Hong Kong flu in '68.... 1957 all over again!! EECCKS!!!

So, when they came out with the SWINE FLU alert... yep, I took that vaccine. So did my husband. I knew what FLU was like and I figured if President Ford was taking the vaccine. Well, I would too.

Well, let me tell you. On a lunch hour my husband and went to our doctor's office to get the vaccine shots. My husband took the shot first, then me.

About 4 hours later, he calls me from work and says, "Honey, I AM SO SICK... my friend is driving me home."

As soon as I put the phone down.... I actually collapsed in a heap on the floor. My oldest son, then a teen, ran for a neighbor. It was 2 days before Thanksgiving. That is all I remember. I was in the hospital when I came to...2 days AFTER THANKSGIVING.

My poor husband was also hospitalized and also had pneumonia but did real well.

If the vaccine made me that sick, well, I guess an actual full-blown case might have done me in.