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Early Symptoms – Kim

 

Kim describes how scary it was for her when she felt like she could not breathe.

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It was really, really bad. I couldn’t sleep that night because this whole side of my side hurt. I had trouble breathing when lying on my back. I felt like I was being strangled.


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