Have you been surprised by a recent death by pneumonia of someone you know? (Poll)

[lostnfound]

I have. Twice this week, I learned that someone I knew who was about 80 just died of pneumonia. In the month of February.

Not saying it’s COVID-19. But it gave me a little concern to know that no one knows. Because they haven’t been testing.

Both of them were a surprise. At least one of them had a rapid, unexpected decline.

No man is an island. I love our 80-year olds... at this time in history, it’s really very nice to be able to keep the elders around.



Beautiful well respected / loved people, Jim and Marie.

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[McCamy Taylor]

1. Physician here and a bunch of my patients have been on ventilators

with an unknown respiratory infection this winter---many more than usual and the ones affected have not had unusually weak lungs. They all survived. I hope that someone will do retrospective testing for Coronavirus as well as Influenza A (there is an H1N1 strain and those are the worst kind). Remember that rapid flu screen have poor sensitivity meaning that they miss lots of flu. It has to be an actual viral test.

[dewsgirl]

5. There is a lady on Twitter that has been putting together cases,

this may interest you.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[rampartc]

2. pneumonia is a common complication among seniors

esp those who do not stay active.

it can also lead to congestive heart problems (fluid in lungs makes circulation more difficult I think.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Yes. She had cancer but couldn't fight off the pneumonia.

[dewsgirl]

4. I don't know anyone personally but this has had my interest

for a couple weeks now, I'm following a lady that is putting together suspicious cases on Twitter.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[jpak]

6. My 90+ YO Mom came sown with a "viral lung infection" last week and ended up in the ER

cough, lethargy, hypoxia and shortness of breath.

She's in a nursing home and told us not to come see her.

No pneumonia - but it makes me wonder.....

[McCamy Taylor]

8. My 80 plus mother who never gets sick (including never gets flu)

had a cough two weeks ago. She is strong as an ox and got over it but she was surprised by how bad her cough was and how long it lasted. And currently my whole family has a cough from hell. I am one of those who never gets respiratory flu. But I now have walking pneumonia (have never had pneumonia before) and have to use albuterol nebulizer every 2 hours to breathe (even though I do not have asthma). Since none of us is sick enough to be admitted to the hospital (steroids and every 2 hour albuterol nebulizer treatments are keeping us alive), we do not qualify for corona-virus testing. My flu test has been negative twice. That does not prove it is not the flu. But (like a large percentage of people) I never ever cough with flu! I think this is something else.

See my post about why the US for profit health system has a financial incentive not to test for coronavirus.

[ooky]

7. Seems like a good time to get your pneumonia shot

if you haven't already.

[defacto7]

9. One who almost died... twice.

The weird thing is she had it once, recovered, then relapsed into it again after a couple weeks from release. Both times were life threatening.

Sound familiar?

[lostnfound]

12. Yes it sounds familiar. Damn. Nt

[JohnnyRingo]

10. I'm posting from the CCU with pneuonia right now.

Last year this month I was here and slightly closer to death. They put me in a coma for a week to save me.
This time it's a collapsed upper lung with horrible chest pain. What caused me to call the ambulance was the 160 bpm heart rate. It took a while to call because I didn't believe the oxy-pulse meter.

When I arrived in the ER hospital staff came from all over to look in the room with the crazy beep. They finally stopped my heart for a few seconds, then started it back up hoping it would reset. I panicked as I couldn't breath and the world began fading away like the red light on an unplugged cable modem. I came back when it started and asked that they not do that again. Just like unplugging your cable and plugging back in, that didn't work, so they tried some other medicine that did.

Anyway, I've been her e since Thursday and advise everyone to avoid unnecessary contact this month, especially if you have a compromised respiratory system like mine. Pneumonia screws with everything and kills in unexpected ways. Just because you make it to the hospital doesn't mean you'll live.

[lostnfound]

13. Hope you recover soon.

[Greybnk48]

14. How frightening!

Hang in there JohnnyRingo. Sounds like you're a tough one!

[GusBob]

11. In the past year Ive known more deaths by suicide

Than any other cause