Hey everybody,
Twenty years ago this month — for 10 days in February 2005 — the world watched Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital, as Pope John Paul II fought the flu.
He was hospitalized on February 1 that year, with breathing problems — spasms in his swollen throat. The pontiff spent the next 10 days in and out of critical condition.
By Feb. 10 he was we…