“She loved helping people, helping the kids, and the kids loved her,” .........
Too bad someone didn’t care enough to help her OR, perhaps she never though to ask for help. Sad ending for a young person to die that way. If she had been on welfare or an illegal, she would have gotten the meds for free.
Too bad someone didn’t care enough to help her OR, perhaps she never though to ask for help. Sad ending for a young person to die that way. If she had been on welfare or an illegal, she would have gotten the meds for free.
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She went to the doctor who gave her a prescription - could have been for Tamiflu (which at that point wouldn’t have helped her much - needs to be taken 36-48 hours after symptoms start or upon exposure) and/or for other meds, maybe even antibiotics. She delayed getting her meds because of a COPAY so she obviously had some sort of insurance.
The flu virus can cause viral pneumonia and in some people, it results in a particularly severe inflammation of the lungs. Oxygen rates drop quickly and death results. This flu season it appears some people are dying within a day or two of being diagnosed with the flu so this is a particularly fast process and many are being caught by surprise. I think this poor woman’s “fate” was already sealed, whether she had meds or not. Being a virus, antibiotics at this point aren’t helpful (my aunt just died of complications from viral pneumonia this past May) & Tamiflu mostly reduces the duration of the flue by a couple of days, but not for something like this.