If you think influenza is a light illness, you are conflating it with something else. The flu makes people weak, achey, feverish to the point of being unable to arise from bed, and it usually lasts from 4 days to a week. Your body actively digests muscle tissue during that time, and (especially elderly) people will often be physically weakened afterward and take months to recover the strength they had prior to the illness.
I have a clear memory of the first time I had flu as a child, and consciously wanting to die. This is a pretty common feeling when one is that ill.
It's possible you have never experienced an illness this painful. May you continue to be so blessed.
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Re: "Hail Idun" Variants, and Any Questions of Which to Ask More?
Date: 2023-02-27 05:39 pm (UTC)I have a clear memory of the first time I had flu as a child, and consciously wanting to die. This is a pretty common feeling when one is that ill.
It's possible you have never experienced an illness this painful. May you continue to be so blessed.
--Ms. Krieger