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“Mahoney began to work non-stop
That’ll kill ya’ too.”

Yes, work yourself to exhaustion, day and night, then at age 62, expect to fight off any disease, not a good personal choice. Hope he was able to help many while doing that. I understand 62 is the new 52 but we still get old and more frail.

Amen! Working non stop! I was reading about Hong Kong Flu 1968-69. I was a senior in high school, graduated May 1969 and went off to college. I never really heard anything about that flu epidemic. I vaguely remember hearing that name Hong Kong flu, but no one I knew had it, so it didn’t really affect me. Woodstock was that summer. They didn’t shut Woodstock down for Hong Kong flu... Moon launch was that year. And I was getting everything ready for heading off to college, working that summer at a glass plant in OK with no AC. 110F indoors, 106F outdoors.

I did get sick the next school year, my sophomore year. Mono plus the doctor gave me penicillin which almost killed me. That summer I was working at glass plant again, got laid off and brought back online over and over. They had a rough year. And I worked in Tulsa, 10 miles from my hometown, on days when the glass plant didn’t call me in.

Then my sister’s baby sitter didn’t show up so I watched her infant son some days too. That is when I ended up with mono, I was physically exhausted.

Working non-stop is a killer. That is the only time I have been in a hospital for a serious illness. THere is just so much a body can take.

But I was thinking maybe this is why I didn’t get Hong Kong flu, I wasn’t over doing it. Then the next year I was over doing it and ended up in hospital for a whole week, on IV fluids, swollen up twice my size, covered with huge red and purple hives.

I was thinking that is when you catch these viruses, when you are run down, sick, old, fat... That’s me old and fat!