"DON'T GET UP!"
THE DANGER, OF FEELING "GOOD ENOUGH."' Many distressing cases of relapse have occurred through patients fancying they felt "good enough to get up," and persuading others that- they •were quite all right. An instance of this folly only needs to be quoted to show ihcf.v tragically regrettable sudh .'procedure is. Two convalescents in the Kelburn district felt that they were quite able not- only to leave their beds, but to go for a walk on Silnday morning. They ended their walk in an amHuiance in a state of delirium when they reached t'he Hospital. No influenza patients should think of leaving the warm security of t'he blankets for at least two days after their temperature ha s returned to normal, apd .then they should not expose. themselves to draughts or cold winds for a .day or two. The malady will not permit of anyone "cracking 'hearty."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 280, 21 November 1918, Page 5
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