My husband and I had the flu in 1977
It was the worse experience
We couldn’t move.....hardly aware of our surroundings
....ran fevers.....aches and pains
lasted several days
Terrible
We’ve taken a flu shot ever since and never had it again
I think I had that one about 15 years ago. :-) Thought I would die. I also started taking the flu shot and wearing a face mask during flu season and I’ve never had it again either. I wear the mask trying to prevent the strains that don’t get included in the shot.
DW and I had about of flu so bad we couldn’t move on our own, chills, every fiber of our being hurt. Our blood pressure plummeted. We had to have one set of parents care for us and another set care for the kids.
Finally made it to the ER were they said we had the flu and we would feel better in a few days. Never knew what that was or how we got it. But we thought we were dying and at one point that seemed ok.
Wicked, think your dying, flu is nothing new. What’s different is so many of us will get close together and we have social media to scare the daylights out of each other.