>>12535469 (PB)
Different people experience this very differently. Glad he responded to the therapy. Sorry Mr. Byrne doesn't realize that the fucking virus STILL has not been isolated and cannot be diagnosed with ANY certainty. Pretty sure his immune system was shot beforehand, too. Anybody who is in the hospital as much as he is isn't healthy to begin with.
I'm older than he is, have abused my body rather severely with drugs, both recreational and OTC decongestants while smoking ~3 packs of cigarettes a day and over-work, have suffered my share of injuries (permanently disabled due to a couple falls) and am now overweight by about 60 pounds and something of a couch potato. Yet, at 68 years, I haven't been sick for more than a single day per year for the past 20 years. I take a LOT of D3 and keep my vitamins up to par with a couple extra grams of vit. C per day. I like an occasional beer or cordial / liqueur (never to intoxication), so I'm not "living a life of ascetic deprivation." Pat seems to be on top of a lot of things, but he takes lousy care of his own health and, as a result gets sicker a lot more than most.
There are FAR too many people who have a MUCH easier time with whatever the current "flu du jour" is for me to understand his story as anything other than anecdotal.
Doctors who can't identify the old strain of something don't get much from me when they claim to identify a new strain.