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Originally Posted by anakarydas  I wonder also if allergies sometimes causes pneumonia...?....I am glad that you now are home with your fur babies......  |
This seems to be the precipitating factor in my annual bout with this pneumonia.....I have a poor history of taking care of myself, and it has become obvious as we age, (which I always knew and applied to OTHER people, NOT ME!!!), changes in behavior must take place! I have been taking the pneumonia shot every three years for the last 15 years....it is a great shot, and protects you from a huge number of cases that you encounter "outside the hospital", but when I was still working and was around all those sick patients, along with hospital borne illnesses, I was a holy mess!! Put a HORRIBLE allergy to cedar pollen (cedar fever!) on top of all that, and this is something I will deal with the rest of my life. Just realizing I am human and all this can and does happen to ME and not just everyone else, has made a huge and necessary change in the way I approach dealing with this! I am NOT immortal, I can actually die from being sick, so once I realized that, and changed how I deal with it, I will do better going forward! "Preventative medicine" rather than "reactive medicine"......the concept I applied to everyone else for the last 45 years....is now MY personal care plan! Thank you all for the concern and well wishes! I am indeed on the mend....soon as I get my voice back I will be 100%!!!