[luckystarmom]

My mom has it right now, and I’m worried about her. It’s turned into pleurisy, and she is in a lot of pain. They did a chest x-ray on her yesterday, and said she didn’t have pneumonia. Doctor sent her home.

My mom rarely gets sick and doesn’t complain much, so if she if she says she’s not well then I think it must be bad.

[editor-surveyor]

"My mom has it right now, and I’m worried about her. It’s turned into pleurisy, and she is in a lot of pain"

She didn't have the flu. She has a bacterial infection.

Use a heat pad to reduce the pain, and accelerate elimination of the bacteria. Del-Immune will help too, if you have it. (www.delimmune.com)

[ErnBatavia]

Pleurisy sucks....I had it over 40 years ago while on a weekend liberty from the USMC - thought I'd had a heart attack, it was so painful to breathe.

Funny - our goofy old Navy Corpsman drove up to the L. A. area and stormed the civilian hospital (I'd gone to the ER and was in the cardiac unit, thanks to a botched intern job on an EKG), yelling "I'm the boy's doctor!"

I'd had "mess duty" for endless weeks in the steamy dish cleaning areas of Camp Pendleton and that's where we figure I contracted it.....but it's never reoccured, thankfully.