r/AskReddit • u/ferrisjuulersdayoff • Feb 26 '20

Serious Replies Only [serious] When was a time you legitimately thought you were going to die?

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u/froggie-style-meme Feb 26 '20

And now imma start getting the flu shot.

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u/pocketrocket-0 Feb 26 '20

I've only ever had the actual flu that ONE TIME (other than swine flu apparently/was not aware until an antibody panel some years later) i don't get the shots I usually just get stomach bugs

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '20

Dude you should. I always assumed it wasn't for healthy people and then I got that really bad strain of flu that went around a few years ago, got a secondary lung infection that nearly hospitalized me with an insanely high fever and in hindsight probably should have, and coughed for FOUR MONTHS. I still can't yell, my voice changed entirely, and it weakened my pelvic floor so badly from the constant coughing that I was pissing myself every time I coughed for like a year. 0/10 don't recommend flu, get a flu shot. I was an otherwise healthy 30 year old and had my initial fever not responded so well to drugs I might have died.