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iL_WeReo > wrote:

> On Mar 11, 8:39*am, Kathleen > wrote:
> > Aingon Atelia wrote:
> >
> > >>Aingon Atelia wrote:
> >
> > >>>>On Mar 1, 3:28 am, sf > wrote:
> >
> > >>>>>>>>I believe it now. What happened to poor Blinky?
> >
> > >>>>>>>He died.
> >
> > >>>>>>I gather that, but from what?
> >
> > >>>>>We suspect it was pneumonia.
> > >>>>>--
> >
> > >>>>So was his vomiting a red herring?
> >
> > >>>Started with some kind of flu-like thing, and then progressed into
> > >>>something resembling pnuemonia. *Again, this is from things he said,
> > >>>there has been no official pronouncement yet.
> >
> > >>I thought people only died (in the modern world) of pneumonia if they
> > >>were already ill with something else?
> >
> > Not necessarily. *People still die of the flu and its aftermath. *That's
> > why we try to vaccinate against it. *The second sickest I've ever been
> > was with influenza. *I'm a strong, healthy, middle-aged adult and I was
> > so sick, with high fever and respiratory symptoms and terrible body
> > pain, that I was more than a little scared. *And it took me a long time
> > to get well.
> >
> > (The absolute sickest I've ever been was with dengue fever that I got
> > from a mosquito bite down in Mexico and I was more than a little scared,
> > I thought I was going to die.)
> >
> > > I was reviewing some of the email he sent while he was sick, and
> > > something jumped out that I hadn't noticed before. *He mentioned that he
> > > was having trouble holding onto a new bar of soap with his right hand.
> > > I'm wondering if perhaps he didn't have all kinds of things happening to
> > > him at once.
> >
> > Even "just" the flu can crash your system, creating a cascade of all
> > sorts of symptoms and failures.
> >
> > >>Though in all the times i hastily jumped out of the *pool when blinky
> > >>swam up i never recall him saying anything about any previous or
> > >>chronic conditions.
> >
> > >>Even his complaints about stress that took him to the Joshua tree park
> > >>to de-stress & where he took some lovely photos never seemed anything
> > >>more than the usual, run of the mill, ordinary, everyday, modern world
> > >>stress.
> >
> > > Nope - other than a couple of chronic skin issues he was basically
> > > healthy, at least to my knowledge, and I'm the one he would have told
> > > first. *He certainly didn't tell me he was as sick as he obviously was.
> >
> > He probably didn't know how sick he was. *In modern times we've
> > forgotten how deadly the flu can be. *The influenza epidemic of 1918
> > killed over 50 million people; young, old, rural, urban, rich or poor.
> >
> > Medical advances give flu victims a better shot at recovering but it
> > still comes down to supporting the patient while their own immune system
> > fights off the virus.
> >
> > The flu shots don't offer 100% protection, especially not when they
> > guess wrong about the season's dominant strain. *But even if you do
> > catch the flu the shot's effects can lessen the severity of your
> > symptoms. *I work as a substitute teacher. *My exposure is massive, and
> > if I get sick, the numbers exposed to me are massive. *And then they
> > expose their families ... *So I get the damned shots.
> >
> > And that's my recommendation to everybody who doesn't have a medical
> > reason not to... *Get the damned shots.- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> These are sad times for 24hoursupport.helpdesk.
>
> RIP Blinky the Shark

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