Man, that pneumonia is a killer. I was 37, couldn’t breathe, felt like I was already dead after a prolonged bout of chest discomfort. Before it was finally diagnosed, I hadn’t slept for 4 days, and went to the Immediate Care three times leading up to my final visit. This was the November before the pandemic, Covid wasn’t a thing yet… I finally got them to do a chest X-ray… it didn’t look good at all. Turns out it was pneumonia. I have about 40% lung capacity now… wish they would have caught it when I first went in, but I had it for about a month total.
I’ve always had very good insurance but I was surrounded by incompetence… I felt like I was approaching end of life, out of body sort of experience.