I was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia in June. I had a bad cold first that went into pneumonia. The doc asked if I had been sick and that’s how she diagnosed bacterial pneumonia after an xray showed the pneumonia.
She said she was surprised I was up and walking around, gave me a 5 day course of antibiotics and sent me home.
I never had any other symptoms other than wheezing and never stopped doing what I do. I dam sure didn’t collapse because I had a ‘small nodule in one lung’.
Speculation on my part, it may just be that being weakened by a cold virus gives opportunity for bacteria to take hold in the lungs, and that lungs rarely develop pneumonia with virus being the local (in the lung) agent. Like getting a cold, then getting an infected cut or something. The infection isn't the same agent that causes the clod or flu.
-- I dam sure didn't collapse because I had a `small nodule in one lung'. --
Yeah. The pneumonia / overheated explanations don't fit. The way her entourage treated her at the bollard and taking her from the bollard to the van would tend to alarm any casual observer. This person is beyond "not feeling well."
The press reports are still overwhelming in calling the move "she stumbled."
I have chronic bronchitis from allergies and have had it turn into pneumonia several times. What I see in the 9/11 video of PIAPS is not, in my experience very indicative of pneumonia.
Neither, in my experience is it indicative of heat stroke or dehydration. (I worked as a medical volunteer at the “Hotter than Hell 100” for several years. Where lots of riders would get sick from the heat)
PIAPS was sitting on the bollard ramrod straight. Her head appeared to be moving randomly. When they first started to move her the knees were locked and she took a couple of Frankenstein type steps then lost her balance and collapsed. It looked like she was having an epileptic episode.
People that are dehydrated enough to faint are, in my experience, in a heap on the ground and not ridged.
People with severe pneumonia prefer to recline because they don’t have the breath to sit upright.
The coughing, at least to me, that PIAPS suffers from also sounds to be more from the throat rather than the lungs.Once again in my personal experience, pneumonia produces a shaper, barking cough than PIAPS exibits. It sounds like a cough caused by a sinus condition to me rather than a lung condition.
I’m a metaphysician not a medical physician so my opinion is not worth much but, from my experience there is something wrong with PIAPS besides pneumonia or possibly in addition to pneumonia.