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Bob McKeown's avatar

Pneumonia, gods Rick, that's awful. I had bacterial pneumonia the winter before 9/11, and I got it from schlepping around New Brunswick on foot looking for an apartment. And I was a pack-a-day smoker at the time. Got a fever so high I was hallucinating. The ER (of course I had no health insurance) wrote me a scrip for Biaxin, turned out I was allergic to it and it made me puke; I had to go back for a scrip of Amoxicillin, so I was out $100 for pills I had to throw away.

Thank the gods Joe Biden is beginning to deal with that shizzle. And thank gods for the ACA.

I'll be back with a comment on your interview, just wanted to quickly toss out a note of empathy. You'll get through it; once the infection breaks you'll recover just fine. But man it's awful when you have it.

Hang in there! Know you're always with us in spirit.

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Donna Love's avatar

Please take care of yourself, Rick. I am considerably older than you, and I have had to learn the hard way sometimes that if you don’t build in time for self-care, at some point your body will force you to do it. 💙

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