Survivor: "Am I going to make it?"

DAYTON,Ohio (WDTN) - On the day that health officials reported the H1N1 flu has killed nearly 4,000 Americans, and seven people were in isolation with flu symptoms at a Dayton hospital, a local H1N1 flu survivor said she feels lucky to be alive. 

"It was just miserable," said Jenny Reumann when recalling the flu symptoms she said came on very fast. "It just started with a fever. I was achy."

The normally healthy 35-year-old mother of two went to her doctor.

"She said I had crackling in my chest. She gave me Tamiflu, and sent me home," Reumann said.

But Reumann did not get better. She said the cough got worse that same night and she had difficulty breathing.

I couldn't even talk," she said.

Reumann barely had enough energy to make it to the emergency room.

"At that point I was pretty much out of it," she recalled. "I could hardly walk in the door and just wanted to find a bed to lay in."

Reumann developed pneumonia and was put in isolation at the hospital for four days.

She said, "In the back of my mind I was thinking, am I going to make it out of this."

With medication, a lot of rest, and fluids, she finally got well, but it took her over a month to fully recover.

"It was absolutely the sickest I've ever been," Reumann said. "I wouldn't wish it on anybody."