Pneumonia used to kill a lot of people and take months to recover from. The Mister had an endless coughing spell one time and our family doc said all the coughing had irritated a nerve that made the coughing worse. He got a big old shot of steroids and got better.

Beloved family doc also had a mixture she gave as an injection that included a steroid, B-12 and something else that would fix a person right up. I miss those days.