I contracted Valley fever. I could have died

I THOUGHT I HAD PNEUMONIA.

It was October 2009, and I had recently returned from a weekend visit to San Francisco with my wife and son. Fall is a great time to visit the city, but it is unfortunately also the start of cold and flu season, and when I started coming down with a sore throat and body aches that eventually progressed to a high fever, chills and a cough, I chalked it up being out in public exposed to whatever wandering viruses may have been present that day. When the cough worsened a few days later, I decided to go see my doctor at Kaiser’s Delta Fair clinic in Antioch.