H1N1 experience

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Posting the following copy from another news group. It's by a woman
living in Britain or Switzerland, I forget which.

Posting the following from another news group. I think the woman
lives in Britain or Switzerland, I forget which.

>I got sick on 6. December, went to the doc on 7th dec, he told me it
>was bronchitis, and definitely not swineflu because it was bacterial not viral, and gave
>me anantibiotic.
>
>The next day I ran a high fever on 8th dec, on 9th.dec I phoned for an
>a appointment saying I couldn't get the fever down, the doctor told me it was necessary for
>me to come and see him, it would take three days for the antibiotic to work.
>
>On thurs 10.12.2009 I went to another doctor at that center,
>she gave me a second antibiotic, on Saturday 12.12.09 I was
>coughing bloody mucus and went into hospital, on Monday evening they told me it was H1N1 pneumonia - swineflu -
>on Tuesday morning I couldn't breathe and seriously thought it was all
>over. It was horrible. I was isolated in a room with a toilet but no shower, I was not
>allowed out, I was freaking out.
>
>They pumped a saline solution into me, I gained 3,3 kilos (!!!) in 30
>hours, I shouted at them "I don't want to have kidney failure caused by the hospital, take
>that saline stuff away!" They admitted that they had given me too much, and that the water had
>been seeping into my lungs, which made breathing even worse. (Just what you need when
>you have pneumonia additional water seeping into your lungs)
>
>By Monday 21.December they let me go home, I was fine till supper when
>I ate half a grilled chicken and half an orange, then threw up all night (I never
>throw up - shows you how bad it was.)