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Post by lonelocust on Oct 14, 2009 9:12:44 GMT -5
I do I do!
I'm fine. It was actually a really mild flu for me. I was sick about two and a half days (not sick enough to call off of work, though I thought about it. I would have called off if I wasn't out of paid sick days). I kept saying I had swine flu as a joke, though I certainly had flu symptoms, then someone else who definitely caught it from the same person as me got a bad flu, went to the doctor, and got the official diagnosis. OINK OINK!
I hope I have not been my office's Typhoid Mary and spread it around to people who will get sicker than me. I don't think I've had actual face-to-face time with anyone at work while I've been ill.
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Post by David D.G. on Oct 14, 2009 9:27:08 GMT -5
I'm half expecting to come down with it any day now. My girlfriend was babysitting a neighbor kid last Friday when I was visiting; he came down with the symptoms by Monday (and was diagnosed as having H1N1), which means that he was probably contagious on Friday. Since this strain is so highly communicable, I will be surprised if we're not both sick by this weekend.
I'm not looking forward to having the flu, but I'm a lot more worried for my girlfriend. Except for pregnancy, she has most of the health conditions that have been associated with death from H1N1 flu: overweight, immune-compromised, asthmatic, and diabetic. So if she comes down with this, she will probably have to be hospitalized at least.
~David D.G.
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Post by lonelocust on Oct 14, 2009 11:18:28 GMT -5
I hope your girlfriend does alright if she gets it. At least you're pre-warned that she probably will, so you'll know to go straight to the doctor when she starts getting symptoms.
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Post by shykid on Oct 14, 2009 11:40:36 GMT -5
I have lupus and asthma, so I'm on immunosupressants and steroids. So, yeah, I'm a walking target for communicable diseases. If a bug is going around, I almost invariably get it and typically worse than the people I caught it from.
Several people at the school I work at have been out with swine flu, and someone caught it and died at the school I'm a student at. My mom went to the doctor yesterday (just a checkup), and there were lots of sick people in the lobby. Seriously, I'm going to get it before this is all over. I only hope I don't wind up hospitalized. I was already hospitalized once for seasonal flu as a kid.
In a way, though, I almost want to catch it and just get it over with.
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Post by Mira on Oct 14, 2009 11:52:50 GMT -5
I'm asthmatic, so I'm gonna inquire into whether my doctor has doses available of the vaccine.
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Post by maanantai on Oct 14, 2009 12:04:07 GMT -5
I might have had it (and I surely do hope that I did), but I'm not sure because I was too sick to go to or even contact doctor and so it couldn't be confirmed... and by the time that I propably had it, they had already stopped testing for it at this side of the world, so I would have just gotten tamiflu anyways...
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Post by captainhooker on Oct 14, 2009 13:18:08 GMT -5
as a teacher with students who will come to class hacking all kinds of shit into the air, I'm absolutely amazed that I don't have something myself
knock on wood - I almost never get sick
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Post by tiado on Oct 14, 2009 20:56:47 GMT -5
I think I already had it myself. My brother and I got flu symptoms at around the same time when we were visiting each other. His was confirmed to be H1N1, but it didn't affect him that badly. I suspect that I had what he had, because he and I got sick together.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Oct 15, 2009 0:59:54 GMT -5
I've been getting sick on a weekly basis lately so I've probably either got it now or had it in the past.
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Post by Jodie on Oct 15, 2009 1:04:29 GMT -5
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 15, 2009 2:02:43 GMT -5
*kills the double post*
Stupid sensationalist media... Swine flu's not really much bigger a deal than regular flu, as far as mortality rates go. That isn't to say that David's girlfriend shouldn't be wary, of course. Being in the high-risk category means you have a right to be concerned. If you're generally healthy though, bed rest, try to refrain from spreading it (since it's the nice thing to do), and plenty of fluids, etc. Basically, treat it like a normal flu. Because it basically is.
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Post by ironbite on Oct 15, 2009 7:51:40 GMT -5
Thank you Nappy. that's what I've always thought it was when it first came out. Just a normal flu bug that's been overhyped by the liberal media.
Ironbite-or conservitive media...I forget which.
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Post by yojetak on Oct 15, 2009 7:53:44 GMT -5
I had it last week. My school puts people who have ANY flu like symptoms under quarantine for 48 hours. I hate being sick!
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Post by Caitshidhe on Oct 15, 2009 8:13:34 GMT -5
Thank you Napoleon! Saves me from having a bitchfest about it. Swine flu won't kill anybody unless they're already high-risk--very young, very old, compromised immune system, or already ill.
And also, I feel perfectly fine. No piggie-flu for me.
*YAAH-CHEEEEEEW!*
*OIIINNKK!!*
Nope, I'm good.
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Post by rookie on Oct 15, 2009 9:36:08 GMT -5
I'm waiting for my kids to get it. Last week, my oldest had her birthday party and yesterday I got calls from a couple other parents saying their kids have it. So I got the medical insurance cards together and I'm just playing the waiting game now.
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