Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_on_en_mo/obit_bernie_mac" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...rnie_mac</a> Sad news
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Wow is right, I loved the Bernie Mac show. I read he was sick but what a shocker. So very sad, WAY too young!!! RIP Bernie. ;<
Originally Posted By dshyates I was never a big fan, but this news is shocking and saddening. I had heard earlier this week he was in the hospital, but assumed that at such a young age, that everything would be OK. I respected his talents, and he will be missed. Rest in Peace, funnyman.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 As one South Side Chicagoan to another - Bernie - we will miss you. I grew up not far from where Bernie did - he was 2 years behind me in school. Known as a 'real' person, no BS about him. Very sad news indeed...this story has been covered extensively here...when he did not comeout after a week I feared the worst.Although the publicist is saying it didn'thave anything to do with the sarcoidosis he had, one has to believe pneumonia would have an affect on that as well.. RIP.....
Originally Posted By kennect I like the rest am so shocked at this news...It just doesn't seem right in my mind but nothing does...The guy has given me a lot of laughs over the last couple of years...
Originally Posted By kennect VB, Apparently pneumonia is really worse than what most of us think it is...My partner of thirty years turned up ill and then pneumonia developed...He was dead within a week's time...
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Whenmy wife leftMcDonalds Corp - she followed an exec to a local hospital group in my suburb. Even though the hospital is one of the top Heart Hospitals in the Midwest - she said the #1 thing hospitals are ranked on here is the treatment of pneumonia. So yeah, you're right in the seriousness of the illness. ActuallyI hadpneumonia4 times in my life- twice before age 8 ( and it did have some long term effects on my lung capacity) - and the last time I was 28 years old. Even though it was 25 years ago,i still remember not being able to get out of bed on Christmas morning ( andI was a 25 year old very strong athlete at the time) - my doctor actually made a house call on Christmas - and that evening I was off to the hospital with 105 degree fever. I was in 4 days. It was the weakest I ever was in my life..
Originally Posted By kennect OK VB, I don't want to take this off topic but I have to ask this...And this is one thing I have never understood...I worked with a gal years ago that was always sick it seemed...You name it she had it at any given moment...In reality she turned out to be a lunatic that was finally diagnosed as being bipoloar...Some great stories about that but back to the issue... She would every so often say she was sick and the she had walking pneumonia...Now that is something I have really never understood...Do you have any clue about it?
Originally Posted By kennect Pardon my "the she" above it should have read as "that she"...Then again it almost sounded like I was trying to call her a "shim"...Well in reality she was almost a "shim"...
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I've had pneumonia several times in my life. People with severe bronchitis and upper respirtory problems tend to be susceptible. It's no joke. My last bout took me a full 6 months to recover from. It's the weakest I've ever been.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 My youngest daughter had it this year - I understand a few millioncases per year diagnosed - it is atypical pneumonia in that the lungs are not filling with fluid etc.-- it is a very very bad cold - but has to be treated with antibiotics - or else a more severe form can develop -(i.e. bronchial pneumonial ) - 75% of walking pneumonia is in kids --( it is contagious though)
Originally Posted By Labuda First off, RIP Bernie. I loved his comedy. As for walking pneumonia - I had it a couple of years ago. Just basically felt bad, had to go on antibiotics for a while and missed two days of work. Nothing at all like "real" pneumonia.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I had walking pneumonia when I was very young...I think before I was five...and I kind-of-vaguely remember when I had to do breathing tests in the doctor's office.
