I am hoping everyone is taking this seriously
If you have not, get your vaccine
The flu is deadly and can kill
I know this personally
In 1957 at Great Lakes Naval base
I was in a coma four days
in the intensive care unit
The last ward on the way out
One of the few to come out of that ward alive
My best friends a Sailor and an Airman
Never made it out of the Hospital
Of the hundreds who died of the Asian flu
I had tickets to the World series
One morning I awoke and a corpsman said,
"Welcome back to the world."
Told me I owed my life to one nurse
After her shift she slept by my bed all night
Her goal to keep me alive
I said, "I need to get up. I have tickets
to the series." Asked for my two friends
The World series, Yankees won in seven games
Four days of my life lost in high fever
This years flu is the worst ever get your shot