I was having 2 children by c-section within about 3 years during that time. I'm still here! At one point, during the second bout, I blew my nose and found out I'm a blue blood. Also while trying to sleep, I could hear a noise like an old man moaning. That just made me mad. Well...it's not only am I blowing my brains out but some old man is trying to take up residence in my chest. So I had to get up and fight back.Those two times I had the flu, they lasted a couple of weeks.
The last one started to ease up, then came back in full force.
I never got pneumonia. Just a lot of aches, tissues for my nose and sleeping
Yea that's closer to the numbers I read about in the eighties in a cookbook of all ways to read it. But I read it was over the course of 3 years.1918 Flu Deaths
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. /CDC/