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I had it when I was about two or three. Maybe even four. And that's as much as I remember, aside from a few images in my head of the hospital rooms and showers. I remember them bringing out sausage rolls all the time, something I really liked, and not being able to eat them. I think I lost a heap of weight as well.

Do you have it, or something?
 
have had it, spent 4 nights in hospital. started as a simple chest infection (probably due to a brief flirtation with smoking again) before ****ing me up worse. was put on a saline drip because of dehydration after i went into triage in a&e. walked around with an audible crackle in my breath, couldn't catch up on the fluids. had the x-rays and all that.
due to underlying health issues i was given antiobiotics intravenously and orally, as well as steroids. spent much of the last 3 days hocking up gunk, they give pneumonia patients a kind of physio to train them to cough up stuff instead of letting it float around in you. do some brief exercise before trying to cough it up, or switch the sides you lie on to free it up.
 
I suffered from a bout of this about 17 years ago. I felt like shit for a couple of days and thought I just had a cold. Then I started to get unbelievable aching pains all across my back. I went to my GP and he said, "Go to hospital, now". So, I did.

I arrived at the Alfred Hospital at 5 PM and was admitted and taken to a ward at 3 AM the following day. They tried to insert a drip in my arm and somehow in the dark, the nurse missed putting it where it was supposed to go. I think she inserted it in a muscle. It hurt like hell. Eventually, someone came and put it in correctly.

I woke up at 8.30 AM and felt even worse. Noticing that I'd woken up, the other three blokes in the ward came and stood around my bed and asked how I was. I told them I felt crook. One of them asked, "Did they tell you they were putting you in an AIDS ward?" I said that nobody had mentioned this. He asked, "So what do you think about being in an AIDS ward? I said, "It sounds as if you blokes are sick, just like me." They heaved a collective sigh of relief and told me that when others who'd been placed in their ward had found out where they'd been put, they'd jumped out of bed, and had literally run screaming from the room. Apparently, the bed into which I'd been put was the only one available in the whole hospital.

It took about three days to feel any better at all. Then I had a massive outbreak of cold sores over the bottom half of my face. The medicos saw this as a good sign, in that the fever was exiting the body. As mentioned above, the visit from the physio which cleaned out the gunk in my lungs was a highlight. A lowlight was later in the week, when one of the AIDS patients had left, to be replaced by an Italian bloke in his 60s. I got to sit through a twenty minute explanation given by his surgeon of the nuts and bolts of how they were going to split open his ribcage to do heart surgery. Phew.

Anyway, I spent a week in that room and found those three who were there when I arrived to be witty and intelligent company. One of them continued to keep his weed dealing business going by meeting people on the front steps of the hospital to exchange drugs for money.
 
I think I have 11(?) patients with pneumonia at the moment. It's generally pretty harmless until you hit 70+ and then it will start trying to kill you.

To the people above who were put on drips, IV ABs, CXRays, etc - that's just run of the mill treatment that everyone gets - I doubt you were as sick as you thought you were. I had it myself and ended up with a small abscess because of it and thought I was on death's door. Looking back at it now is a laugh, because I was young and fit and was never going to die from it. It can be quite scary at the time!

Just try hard not to cough on old/immunosuppressed/small, pigmy-like people who attend school and it shouldn't be too much of a problem for any of you.
 
woopedazz said:
I think I have 11(?) patients with pneumonia at the moment. It's generally pretty harmless until you hit 70+ and then it will start trying to kill you.

To the people above who were put on drips, IV ABs, CXRays, etc - that's just run of the mill treatment that everyone gets - I doubt you were as sick as you thought you were. I had it myself and ended up with a small abscess because of it and thought I was on death's door. Looking back at it now is a laugh, because I was young and fit and was never going to die from it. It can be quite scary at the time!

Just try hard not to cough on old/immunosuppressed/small, pigmy-like people who attend school and it shouldn't be too much of a problem for any of you.
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I bow to your superior knowledge. I was not quite so young as it appears you were. Apparently, the thing which most concerned my GP was the level of the temperature I had. Just in the past twelve months, I have had a series of scans which revealed something similar in one of my lungs (some sort of a nodule they called it). So far, it appears benign and is not undergoing any changes. The bonus was that I had a series of tests which everyone older should have.
 
rugmop said:
I bow to your superior knowledge. I was not quite so young as it appears you were. Apparently, the thing which most concerned my GP was the level of the temperature I had. Just in the past twelve months, I have had a series of scans which revealed something similar in one of my lungs (some sort of a nodule they called it). So far, it appears benign and is not undergoing any changes. The bonus was that I had a series of tests which everyone older should have.
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Nil changes. Two glorious words ;)
 
never had it myself -

my brother caight it in Canada - He was travelling around at the time and used to hitch-hike and it wasn't uncommon from him to camp/sleep out - Did it in Montreal in December and was suddenly sick really quick.

Also my uncle got it too, and although it's an awful story, it's kinda funny (if you knew him, it would be) - Firstly he broke his entire leg on Christmas day one year after riding a mini-motorbike on my cousin's (his nephew's) farm. He fell off somehow and the bike landed right on his leg shattering his bone to the point he needed a full length leg cast for atleast 3 months, and then a half-length cast for another month or so. Either way, a long time without great mobility.

He got a little depressed, sat on the couch a lot (as you would), smoked too much weed (as you would) - Next thiing, BAM - pneumonia to top it off
 
I got it when i was in year 12 about 1 or 2 weeks before Exams started, pretty good timing there, it probably started from smoking a few ciggies just sitting around with mates a day or so before i really started to feel it coming on. Not sure why i insisted on having 3 or 4 smokes when i never had more than 1 and i paid the price. The people saying its like a bad cold are right except it stuffs your body right up at the same time, you feel cold all the time and just getting out of bed to walk around was a struggle, i remember trying to have a shower as i had been bed ridden for a day or so and it felt like i was in Antarctica, got out and was shivering like i was about to collapse even though it was a very hot shower. After that episode i knew it was serious enough to go to hospital where i was holed up there for 3 days or so while they put me on a drip to get the fluids in ( you struggle to eat or drink properly and basically throw up everything you try to consume) so i ended up losing close to 5kgs over that 1-2 week period. Was still feeling the effects during exams but was well enough to sit them. Haven't smoked a cigarette again since as i felt that was definitely a cause of it.
 

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