H1N1 experience
book...@yahoo.com
living 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.)
>
>On Tuesday the die-oh-rear started. I did a good imitation of a water
>sprinkler - greenish algae-filled water 5-7 times a day - till Sunday 27th Dec. (Bon
>appetit!) My limbs were trembling, and I had to drink litres and litres of salted broth, coca cola, sugared
>black tea, - and eat bananas, rice, dried apricots - in short, stuff I NEVER consume - but
>at least I didn't have to take my blood pressure tablets. Just started taking
>those again yesterday.
>
>It was really horrible, and if you haven't had a vaccination, maybe
>you might want to get one, because - from a woman who has had bronchitis 8 times and
>pneumonia 5 times - I can tell you I NEVER felt so bad.
>
>This after my poor husband had a heart attack on 20. Septermber and
>had to have a stent put in one of the clogged arteries...now we BOTH have to
>rebuild our strength.
>
>Anyway, I lost 6 kilos, 2 came back, 4 kilos stayed off , which is a
>good thing, because I was beginning to feel I couldn't lose weight at all.
>
>But on the other hand, others are worse off.
Melanie Sands
>
> - Zitierten Text anzeigen -
It's from me, and I am a Brit living in Switzerland. And proud and
happy and
very lucky to say I survived. Wishing everyone a really happy New
Year,
and may you all stay helathy or regain your health, whoever and
wherever
you are.
Melanie