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nanajacqui

I got a cold in October 1991 and instead of the usual getting over it in about a week, carrying on going to work, taking Beechams, Lemsips, Benylin etc after two weeks I wasn't getting better, and I was told by folk that I had the floo, so I stocked up and went to bed.

But I wouldn't get better and I started coughing and couldn't stop, me chest was aching with coughing, and I couldn't sleep, because I was coughing so much, so then I went to the doctor, and he told me that I had pneumonia

He gave me a course of antibiotics, and I didn't die, but by this time it was nearly Christmas, and after Christmas I realised that me breathing was acting a bit funny, because me lungs were telling jokes, so I went back to the doctors, and had some tests and was diagnosed with asthma, has a result of having the pneumonia, so I was then on inhalers, then in February I lost me voice, and the doctor said it was an after effect of the pneumonia, and I couldn't speak till June, and when I went outside the cold air would start me off coughing, and I only started to get really reet, after some warm weather in August and September, and I could still feel the effects of that floo and pneumonia, up to three years later.