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and it wouldn't have been a bad way to go had it not been the raging thirst that alerted me to the fluid shift. It's 50% fatal even with treatment and had I not downed a liter of water and called an ambulance, I'd have died quietly within a few hours. Other than the thirst, it was only a vague feeling of "I'm coming down with something" and the need to sleep was almost as bad as the thirst.

Dying from it would have been easy. Surviving it was not, a 5 day ICU horror show.

I'm over 70 now, so if I get it again, I'm outta here.