Texas Hunter Loses Feet , Fingers To Flu
I’ve been reading about and monitoring this brutal flu season (and washing my hands more than ever), which experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say will go down as the worst in decades. There are many heartbreaking and scary stories, but this one from Fox News really hit home: A hunting enthusiast who started out with the flu ended up with both of his feet and nine fingers amputated. On January 4, doctors told Brian Herndon of Fort Worth, Texas, he had pneumonia. A day later they told the family that Brian's pneumonia had combined with this year's flu virus and he was in septic shock. Physicians couldn’t detect a pulse in either of Brian’s feet; a couple [...]