Posted on 01/17/2018 8:36:12 AM PST by Perseverando
A 40-year-old mother in San Jose, Calif., died two days after catching the flu, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing local media.
Katie Denise Oxley Thomas, who was considered healthy and liked to run marathons, died on Jan. 4, the report said. She is the 42nd Californian under the age of 65 to die from the flu, the paper reported.
I can tell you that she seemed absolutely fine on New Years Eve and called a friend Tuesday morning saying that she had a sore throat, and by Wednesday she was in the ICU, her sister told the Mercury News.
The doctor was saying that he had never seen anything like this, and it was not supposed to happen, she said.
The family asked for a private autopsy. Her father believes she had gotten the flu shot, KGO reported.
Thomas had three children from 7 to 17.
Flu is now widespread in every state except Hawaii, but the good news is the season appears to already be peaking.
Its been a rough few weeks: Hospitals have set up tents to handle patient overflow. Doctors are putting in double and triple shifts. Ambulances have been sidelined while paramedics waited to drop off patients.
This morning, I couldnt stand up. I was really weak, said Margaret Shafer, who went to a Seattle emergency room this week after a bout with the flu was followed by pneumonia.
But an update out Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows patient traffic for flu is no longer skyrocketing the way it was in December.
It looks like its starting to level out, said the CDCs Lynnette Brammer, who oversees flu tracking.
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Prayers UP for you and anyone else that got this !!!
Except, this year, they may have missed the boat with the main vaccine. Apparently, the vaccine for the 2017/2018 flu season was only about 10% effective in Australia, and they're guessing that it's going to be the same way here.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-years-flu-vaccine-may-only-be-10-effective-experts-warn/
“Thomas’ brother, Anthony Oxley, believed she had gotten a flu shot, but was not sure.”
Why the Hell hasn’t Gov Brown banned the flu?
No husband?
Its a bad one. Although I am semi retired, I have always worked out in the woods-logger. And these seem to lay us low for some reason.
Having a functional immune system that identifies and neutralizes invaders without getting tricked into killing the host is far from universal.
That would be the selection part of Natural Selection.
Survival of the fittest................Law of the jungle...............
Too strong and it will harm those given it.
Too weak and it will do no good.
So they try to hit where is is strong enough to do the most good and weak enough to do the least damage.
But because everyone is different there are always people and germs that fall outside those boundaries.
And then you add allergies and decreased or increased sensitivities.
Until we develop a way to make personalized medications for everyone we will have to settle for what does the greatest good for the greatest number.
What does having a husband have to do with this?
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It’s something I observed. Healthy marathon runner mom of three, does yoga, eats fruits and nuts, dies suddenly from the flu. What about her husband? None mentioned in her obituary. A mom of three without a husband is often a stressed woman. (A mom of three with a husband is often a stressed woman! Hah)
Really, I just noticed that there was no mention of a significant other, so I looked up her obituary which did not mention a father to the three children. It’s very sad that the three will not have their mama around anymore.
I just read an article(People,I,think) that said the kids were visiting their father in San Diego when she got ill.
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