Tues. April 23, at 7 to 8:30 p.m. at UA Centennial Hall “Can prevention and intervention co-exist in today’s complex health care environment? Both strategies have their benefits, improving health and saving lives. Can we find better ways to be patient-centered and focus on the whole person — mind, body and spirit — to achieve … Read more
NOTE: I am re-posting this old story as a public service. There is some nasty shit… flu… out there now.
If it hadn’t been for the flu pandemic of 1918, I wouldn’t be here.
You see both of my grandparents lost their first spouses to the flu or complications from the flu. Grandma had two sons, and Grandpa had one. After they married in the early 1920s, they had two daughters, my aunt and my Mom. They built an early yours-mine-and-ours family and a 50+ year marriage on the tragedies of the largest pandemic in US history.
According to my Mom, Grandma was relieved that her first husband Charlie didn't have to go to World War I but was devastated when he died from the flu just a few years later. Lessons from the flu stayed with my Grandma her entire life. Learn Grandma's tips after the jump.
