RE: Top 5 Personal Worst Pathogen Sick
September 29, 2023 at 11:51 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2023 at 11:52 pm by Astreja.)
Late February 2009: Came down rather suddenly with a flu-like illness that knocked me on my ass, sending me to bed for three solid weeks. It might have been H1N1, because at the time I was working in an office with someone who had just returned from Mexico, where the flu strain had just emerged. However, it could also have been hantavirus or toxoplasmosis because a few days earlier I had been installing extra insulation in a crawlspace frequented by both mice and cats. (Oddly enough, no one else in the household caught what I had.)
Sequence went roughly like this: Flu or flu-like phase; pneumonia that necessitated antibiotics; shortness of breath and overall poor stamina. Altogether it took me two months, and a hot yoga class, to get fully back to normal.
I called it the Mesopotamian Death Flu.
And every year since that time, I've gotten a flu shot as soon as it became available.
Sequence went roughly like this: Flu or flu-like phase; pneumonia that necessitated antibiotics; shortness of breath and overall poor stamina. Altogether it took me two months, and a hot yoga class, to get fully back to normal.
I called it the Mesopotamian Death Flu.
And every year since that time, I've gotten a flu shot as soon as it became available.
