I am “Jewelry TV” level of sick. Let me explain … no, there is too much. Let me sum up.
I rate my illnesses by the depths I am reduced to while sick. When I had mono, for example, I was so ill that I let my bff come over and beat me repeatedly at board games. She had a great time.
We come to Jewelry TV. I had H1N1 a few years back. I was extremely ill. I laid in bed and watched Jewelry TV. And it was… great. I loved it. The sparkly gems. The gorgeous designs. I was mesmerized by the little wheel that spun around and had multiple pieces on it. If I had been able to figure out how to use my computer, I would have mortgaged the house because that stuff was LIT.
Then I got better, took another look and realized that holy shit, the gems were bad, the settings were gaudy, it was all utter crap.
If I could find the channel, I would watch me some Jewelry TV right now. I have some crud, and sparkly rings on a wheel sound about right.
How are you all doing? Sick? Well? How sick are you?
Ugh, so sorry you’re sick, Sunny–not just sick, but jewelry channel sick. What are you watching? Who’s bringing you chicken soup and tea and feeling your forehead?
I’m doing OK. Docs are pretty firm on my getting a flu shot every year, so I should be OK there. Got the pneumonia vaccine Thursday. No lollipop, dammit, and I was good! Why do adults not get lollipops…or pina coladas?
Hope you’re feeling better and back to criticizing tacky jewelry soon!
I’m living in one of the harder hit states but I haven’t really seen a bunch of sick people around. I had the vaccine and have not been sick, nor have my kids, at least so far.
Back during the late spring, early summer I had one of the worst respiratory infections I have ever had in my life and it developed into bronchitis and I kind of feel like I had pneumonia too but I never went to a doctor, I was sick for nearly two months though.
Knock on wood, I’ve never gotten the flu. I’ve been getting the vaccine since about 1998.
I have been getting the stomach bug every year since my niece started school, 5 years ago. Somehow I didn’t get it last year woohoo! But I did get bronchitis at the beginning of 2018.
2019 I’ve actually been quite well. But I’m reading on Facebook that the stomach bug is in town. It usually knows how to find me. So I’m bracing myself.
I like your explanation of your level of sickness being related to enjoying jewelry Tv. Cute
Not sure what part of the galaxy you’re in, or if it even matters, but – The doctors around here tell me that the flu season is only just getting started around this time. They worst period, they say, comes around February.
Got the vaccine, had my usual “felt like I got hit by a truck” day a couple of days later, but no flu.
Something tried to get me a few weeks later, but I fought it off. May have been a cold, may have been the flu that the vaccine kept from getting me. Missed a day and a half of work, IIRC.
I get a free vaccine as a cancer survivor, but the epidemic has not arrived in Copenhagen yet.
Yes the vaccine works. The only times the last twenty years I have had the flu was once when I jumped when the needle went in, the doctor had not warned me, and once when our government had saved by only protecting against the most likely influenza B. Naturally it was the most unlikely that arrived and the epidemic was bad. Then again the B isn’t as bad as A. Most patients survived.
No flu here, but I got hit with bronchitis so hard on November 2 that I ended up in the ED at 1:30 on a Sunday morning. I was not allowed to return to work for 10 days. Did 15 days of Prednisone, Albuterol nebulizer every 4-6 hours, steroid inhaler twice a day, 5 days of antibiotics. I could not walk up the stairs to my bedroom so I slept on the couch for many days. I’ve never been that sick except for when my appendix ruptured and I spent 10 days in the hospital on IV antibiotics.
We get flu shots every year and have never gotten the bug. I had a cold about a month or so ago, but that’s it. I also carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer wherever I go.
My wife and I got flu shots and so far, so good. We each had mild colds; nothing to worry about. From the timing I probably caught it on a flight and she caught it from me. Both all better.
About 5 or 6 years ago, I did get the flu after having been vaccinated. So did my doctor. He felt they had just used the wrong strain and, in any case, that we had both had milder cases than we would have without the vaccinations. Who knows?
I got a flu shot and even a pneumonia shot. But after 15 years without a cold, I caught a doozy last week. I’m still getting over it. This was a buttered toast and tea and poached eggs and Mary Tyler Moore reruns cold. After 15 years, I totally forgot how miserable colds make you feel.
I think I caught it from the last plumber who was here.
I was getting flu every year before there were flu shots. I was a little cavalier about getting them once they were available, so every year I did not get the shot, I got the flu. Since I’ve been over 60 (and for a bunch of years before that, tbh), I’ve been fanatical about getting my flu shot. Haven’t had the flu in ages and ages. Still get a cold now and then, but I can walk around with a cold (and feel crappy) but nothing like the flu that lays you so low, you wonder if your actually gonna survive. I’ve been there.
I got my first ever flu shot this year. Coincidentally, also the first ever year when a person in my family has got real-official-doctor-diagnosed flu. Daughter #2 was hibernation-level sick: appeared only for meals and the loo.
Everyone else got a shot as Daughter was in the process of getting her checkup, so either really late vaccinations are still good, or our general high flu-resistance was enough to see us through
No widespread flu here in New Hampshire yet. I got the flu shot, so I am hopeful I will escape it this year. Haven’t had the flu in several years, I have been more diligent about getting the shot for the past seven years or so.
No widespread flu in New Hampshire yet, but given I keep running into people who are out and about shopping while coughing their heads off without covering their mouths, it’s only a matter of time. Hopefully this year’s shot is good because people’s manners are not :mad:
I’m fine, but the guy in front of me at work was down for five days. He showed up yesterday and wanted to show us all the Nintendo Switch he was playing on while he was out, and I decided I didn’t want to touch it.
