Clinton: Pneumonia showed ‘how lucky I am’

Hillary Clinton says her recent bout of pneumonia made her thankful for her good fortune.

“I’m not great at taking it easy. I bounce off the walls a little bit,” she told People magazine in an email interview published Wednesday.

{mosads}“I will admit it was nice to spend some time hanging out with our dogs and binge-watching a little TV. Most of all, it really brought home for me how lucky I am.”

Clinton, 68, said her illness illuminated the struggles Americans face keeping themselves and their families healthy.

“When I’m feeling under the weather, I can take a few days off,” she said. “A lot of people can’t — they go to work sick, or they lose a paycheck. Getting sick is devastating to some families, but a bump in the road for others. That’s not right.

“Something as fundamental as affordable healthcare or financial security — that shouldn’t come down to luck. That should be within reach for every family in America.”

The Democratic presidential nominee joked that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, wished she would take a more practical lesson from her sickness.

“Bill would want me to say that it has taught me to drink more water,” Hillary Clinton said. “Always a good thing to do.”

Video emerged earlier this month showing Clinton stumbling and struggling to enter a van while leaving a Sept. 11 memorial event.

Clinton’s campaign revealed after the incident that she been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier. She then took three days off from campaigning.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Clinton of lacking the stamina for the White House.

Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis helped fuel conspiracy theories among some right-wing critics who question her overall health.

Supporters worry the Clinton camp’s handling of her illness provided ammunition for Trump and his supporters to attack her transparency.