Makes me happy.
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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Sepsis.
Death by Obamacare and the GOP congress that refused to get rid of it. Democrats are already damned to hellfire for passing it. The GOP could not resist joining them for the ride.
She died of pneumonia. A complication of the flu. She had type B flu which is not as severe as type A. Pneumonia can kill anyone if its not treated.
Everyone can afford $110 if they knew it was LIFE OR DEATH. But I too might avoid some expensive antibiotic if I thought all I needed was a week in bed and I’d be fine. Hell, if I knew I would die if I don’t take something I’d come up somehow with $100k. I’m too important to other people to die.
Poor thing. Poor family and poor students. They will be devastated and scared.
I feel for you. My family and I get vicious migraines, not the sickness, but we see stuff in our peripheral vision (with the especially BAD migraines) roman numerals, flying fish...you get the idea.
So, do everything you can to ward those off, vicious, evil, nasty things they are.
Her death is tragic. I am somewhat surprised that as a teacher getting a flu shot was not mandatory unless there was a doctor’s excuse.
Check out liberty health share. You can go back to your favorite doc.
I’ve done that before, partial scrip when things were tight, never had a problem asking either... Jeeeezz people
Check out any scripts you have on goodrx. If I were relying on my lying insurance company $35 a month in copay. As is it costs me $4.
F’ers should burn in hell IMHO.
We use oregano oil in the diffusers too. And on the soles of the feet before bed.
It’s the important ingredient in “thieves oil,” what the thieves during the Black Plague would soak their scarf cloths in and hang around their necks and wrists so they could steal from the sick and dead without getting sick.
Thank you for that link.
Many flu strains kill “young, healthy” people more often. Cytokine storms are key in flu mortality rates. The efficacy of Tamaflu is assumed in this article, though it has a poor record in reality. The entire “you have to take it the first day” means the majority of people won’t take it as directed—copay or not.
Have you found any brands of N acetyl cysteine that don’t have a strong sulfur odor? I’m taking some until this flu season ends, but it can leave an aftertaste that hangs around.
People. Seriously. If she knew, or her family knew, her very LIFE was in danger, she would have picked up her scrip. Tamiflu doesn’t always work and it has dreadful side effects. So she may have decided not to take it, and the price didn’t help.
I do not want to burden her grieving family with regrets but I bet her vitamin D3 blood level was below 50. If it had been above 60, she would not be dead. Everyone should supplement this flu season, unless you spend 4 hours practically naked under a strong sun each day. So I don’t need to. Lol.
Seriously take 5000 IU of D3 if you are a healthy adult. Flu shot or not. With anything chronic or worse like cancer, or if you are closer to 300 lbs, take 10,000 IU.
Children should take 2000 IU a day. Tiny babies still breastfeeding should take 1000 iu in droplet form on the nipple a day (either bottle or mom). If they are a little under the weather, even teething, the immune system is already stressed, so do the 1000 iu drop twice a day.
When it’s really sunny spring you can stop supplementing or cut back.
The H3N2 A flu is leaving its victims more open than usual to bacterial infections in airways and/or other parts of their bodies, causing sepsis, pneumonia and/or heart attacks.
Younger people have a stronger immune system. So their bodies attack the virus so strongly that a cytokine storm erupts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome
Oh and look at what else it gives you. You can see what is most prescribed for your issue and cost. A $1000 shot might get the doctor laid by his pharma rep but you are the one getting screwed.
She probably did get one. The article doesn't say one way or the other. In fact since the article says the school went to the trouble of doing some sort of "deep clean", it seems likely that the school would have made flu shots mandatory for their teachers.
Whoever wrote the article probably didn't want to point out how ineffective "store-bought" medical treatment really is. They just wanted to play on the expense angle as if that is what caused her death.
I have been taking NAC for years on a daily basis as it is not only effective against the flu virus and never paid much attention to any smell as long as it does the job along with boosting my glutathione level that’s all I care for. Not to mention that you have to take it at a high enough dosage in order to do what it is supposed to do. I suggest to read up on it as there is plenty of material available on this rather interesting substance.
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