Posted on 02/10/2018 4:50:57 PM PST by Ennis85
Heather Holland, a second-grade teacher at Ikard Elementary School with the Weatherford Independent School District died over the weekend, the Weatherford Democrat reports. Holland got sick about a week ago and took medication, but delayed picking up the prescription due to the $116 copay, according to the newspaper.
By Friday night, Holland's condition worsened and she was taken to the hospital. Her husband Frank Holland told the Weatherford Democrat that she died Sunday morning.
"She loved helping people, helping the kids, and the kids loved her," Holland's husband told the Weatherford Democrat.
Charlotte LaGrone, a spokeswoman for Weatherford ISD, told news station CBS DFW that counselors are available at the school for the rest of the week to help students and school staff cope with the sudden loss. She added that custodians started deep cleaning the district's schools in December to keep students from getting sick, and that the specific campus where Holland was employed had received an additional cleaning on Friday, Feb. 2.
This year's flu season has been particularly deadly, with flu-related deaths being reported across the nation. Last month, five flu-related deaths were reported in the greater Houston area. The CDC reports the flu is widespread across America this year and possibly won't peak until March.
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Geez, I’m doing the flu all wrong. In bed for a week? That would kill me.
It actually could be.. keeps the virus from replicating, anti viral are expensive ask HIV patients.
These stories are tragic, but I think the amount of nationwide media coverage given to many individual cases make things seem much worse than they are. The state health department announced this week that there had been 90 flu related deaths in Alabama, a state of 4.8 million.
I seem to have gotten lucky, as I can still breathe. Maybe I didn’t get the really bad one.
“She’s cute and young.”
The young and the old tended to survive the 1918 flu. It was those with the healthiest, strongest immune systems who died. Their immune systems attacked the virus in their lungs and caused them to suffocate in their own bodily fluids.
““Co-pays are a plot by Trump to kill off teachers.”
ROFLMAO! Excellent. :)”
Yeah, that WAS a funny one! You should write it on a card and send it to her family./s
She couldn’t afford a free flu shot?
And tamiflu is not that effective anyway. I doubt it would have prevented her death even if she picked it up and started taking it.
Oh my goodness...I’m so very sorry for your loss. That is stunning.
We use the Vitamin D Hammer:
At first sign of flu, take 50,000 iu of D3
Every day after, 10k, 3 times during day.
Usually knocks it out in 3-4 days with mild symptoms.
About 4 weeks ago people in my office started getting the flu. Most of my coworkers lost about a week of work each. When I found out that it was flu, my wife and I started taking a 4oz glass of elderberry wine after dinner each night.
“Elderberry Trumps Tamiflu for Flu Remedy” https://www.naturalnews.com/026354_flu_Tamiflu_elderberry.html#
As of today, I am the only one from work who hasn’t come down with the flu.
LOL<
Spoken like a devout Dec. 26 Shopper....
I’ll take my chances with the flu.
Why the frig is Tamiflu a $115 copay? Insanity.
I want to know what she was given that the co-pay was 116.00.
“...and Costco...”
But the free food out in the open at the ends of the aisles is SOOO yummy!
(Disclaimer - I have NEVER eaten any of those samples! Although I have mouthed off at the servers a few times as they block the aisles.)”
You lie!! Nobody would have a Costco membership if there wasn’t free samples. It’s the only time I get to eat bacon and it is the most delicious bacon in the world!!
My 4 year old grandson took Tamiflu and it saved him. He was fine in less than a week. He was diagnosed with Influenza Type A.
I take that and Kyolic Garlic, had the sniffles, but nothing serious thank God.
Same here. From the comments on the thread, it looks like we're in the minority.
Hi, sepsis is not the same as cytokine storm. Look up cytokine storm. It is really interesting if it weren’t so tragic.
Excellent. Scary flu season for kids this year.
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