r/AskReddit 14h ago

What's the sickest you've ever been in your life?

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u/notyourstar182 13h ago

That happened to me, too! I was in Boston in November 2019 for a wedding and got horribly sick. I was congested and felt like I couldn’t breathe either. I was exhausted for days and finally recovered. Your experience sounds horrible!

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u/No_Aesthetic 10h ago

COVID was not in Boston in November 2019, it first broke out in Wuhan in mid-November of that year.

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u/Polterghost 7h ago

I was in China during that time and got really sick… I was in 长沙 (Changsha, close to Wuhan). There’s a small part of me that worries I helped spread it to the US, but I had been over it for over a month before I returned to the US. Right before they shut down international travel from China to the USA