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To: skinowski who wrote (702744)	2/2/2020 5:54:47 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793924

I caught that flu in 2017 while spending Christmas at my daughter's house in Nyack, NY. As a doctor, you may find interesting what happened with it. Right after college, this daughter became passionate about natural lifestyles---organic foods, alternative medicine, yoga, and homeopathic medications. I was behind all of it except the use of the homeopathic meds. That scared me. Over the last twenty years, she has become more open to western style medicine so I've relaxed, but I've also become more open to her approach, too. When I got that flu on the trip, I felt myself becoming sick as we were loading up cars to go spend three days over New Year's at a lake house in PA. When I told my daughter, she ran back into the house to grab her 'medicines'. All I had was a travel vial of tramadol mixed up with ten or so ibuprofen. During the drive I rapidly got sick enough that I suspected it was flu and not just a cold, and I took a dose of her meds. For the next three days, I took colloidal silver, takuna, which is an extract of the bark of a S. American tree, and something I've forgotten which was for fever. I did pretty well---played board games, hiked through thick snow, and even ate. Not much appetite overall, but there were a few specific choices that were delicious, including, of all things, an organic pizza of a style I'd never eaten before. I had a definite and constant fever, felt like a giant infrared lamp, but very little of the other flu symptoms--a little achy but no headache or digestive upsets. It was a lively group of ten adults, and I enjoyed socializing so much I began to think maybe it wasn't flu at all. Until the fourth day that is. I had run out of the fever med on the second day and by the evening of the third day I took the last of the colloidal silver and had to ration out what was left of the Takuna. That night it was rough sleeping---chills and achy bones. The ibuprofen was worthless. The next morning, zero appetite and my friends packed up my stuff as I lay outside in an unheated sunroom trying to cool down. Driving home the sun was very painful to my eyes, whereas the day before I'd walked through sparkling snow and out onto an iced over lake. My mind was marveling at the rapid and dramatic changes in the way I felt. Because of my age and how fast I was sinking, I forced my daughter to drop me off at the Nyack emergency room. Because of my age, I was actually in front of an actual MD in less than ten minutes even though the waiting room was pretty full. The flu test came back positive while I being checked out by the doctor, and her first comment was to say I was remarkably well in spite of a flu which was already proving to be exceptionally nasty. She even said 'I must be doing something right and not to change anything'. But I didn't have the courage to tell her about the homeopathic drug routine I'd been on, lol. The doctor prescribed Tamiflu even though the window for its usefulness was about to close. I went ahead and decided to try it just out of curiosity and to compare it. One dose and the dose itself made me feel sick all over, so I went back to the meds my daughter had just bought more of. Two days later, in ten degree weather, we all were back in NYC for dinner and a show, followed by a quick run through Bloomingdales to find a better winter cap. I can't say that now I would automatically turn to those two supposedly anti-viral medications without going to a doctor first for a full screening, etc. but I do have them in my cabinet. The whole flu event gave me a lot to think about.