BLAAAARRRRGGG!
Went homie-home-home from work in the middle ovva day.
Wanted to stickit out, but Boss says get the hell out.
Juice. Vitamin C, ginsing, echina…the herbal stuff.
Vaporizer.
No buy my comics today.
whimper
Me too.
Left work mid-day.
I’m with you… except for that herbal stuff. BLEECHHHH!!!
:dubious:
Guys, I don’t mean to sound unsympathetic. You have my commiserations and I hope you’re all nice and cosy with a warm lemon drink and whatnot, but you don’t have “the flu”. Y’all have colds. If you had the flu, even thinking about going to work would never be in question. You’d be in bed.
This is not to belittle the commopn cold. They can be bloody nasty, but the flu is an order of magnitude above.
Getting over it. At least I caught up on some reading and sleep.
Tea and OJ are my friends.
I usually use caffeine. Lots of caffeine.
I’m no armchair pharmacist, but all those cold tablets are is speed, and a really pharmacist ( a hard-nosed character with a real world view with a store in a dodgy, drug-filled suburb) told me, “here, have these. Oh, and lots of Coca cola, tea, and coffee. That’s all these are anyway.”
It works, kinda.
I’m with you on the tea, but OJ will kill you.
And then swear to spend the rest of its life tracking down the real killer.
While on a golf course (in Florida, naturally).
You know, I have never once gotten a flu vaccine (except maybe when I was too young to remember it.)
I have gotten the flu exactly twice…once last year and once this year. However, the once this year was in early February, a month after the first flu. 
I started to get sick during finals week, and then BAM, the day of my last final, I woke up and felt like utter crap. Crap doesn’t begin to describe it. I had a fever (at that point just over 100,) nose had mucus constantly running out of it, cughing every minute, wanting to vomit (and in fact, did so.) But, I had to go take my final. Ugh. I would have gone to the health center to reschedule, but it was the last day of finals, and besides, that was the best day of the flu. I had it for another week. Vomiting, chills, yet at the same time, a fever that peaked at 106! :eek: My brain was cooking itself! The only good part was the day I basically drank an entire bottle of cold medicine. The DXM in it (a mild hallucinagen) combined with the high fever made for some fun times that day. 
I didn’t go to the health center, I let my body fight it off (whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.) Well, I guess the virus just went into remission. A few weeks later…BAM, same thing, but a little less fever and a little more vomiting. This time I went to the health center. I got some anti-virals (virul?) It went away a bit quicker, I guess cause of the medicine…well, everything went away except the cough, which got worse. MUCH worse.
I went through about another week of trying to get better on my own. Still had a few pills left, took the rest…nope, still lots of coughing. Finally, after (literally) coughing at least every five minutes, if not more than that, I went to the health center. The nurse listened to my chest. After half a breath, she could tell I had pneumonia. Half a breath! That’s how bad it was! I got an x-ray at the hospital just to be sure. Yup, full-blown pneumonia. They wondered how it was so bad, and I told them I didn’t do a thing about it for a week. They thought I was crazy.
Got some antibiotics (even though odds are it was viral, what with just having the flu.) It cleared up within another week. But yeah, for over half of February I was sick, and still had to go to class and do asignments. I had so little food, I lost a noticeable amount of weight.
I spent sunday night through tuesday vomiting, sleeping, vomiting, sleeping etc. I was so dehydrated I didn’t pee for 30 hrs (Yes someone counted). I think I am over it now (have been back to work) but I still feel exhausted and weak. Anyway, feel better soon guys! And keep those liquids coming!
EW EW EW you’re all contagious get away from me ICK!
Er… sorry you’re feeling bad. Yeah.
(TheLoadedDog: I’ve had colds and I’ve had stomach flu. The cold, I walk around sniffling and sneezing and bleary-eyed. The flu, I’m doubled over the toilet moaning in pain and barfing my guts out. Believe me, brother, I know what you’re talking about.)
I don’t think there is such a thing as a “stomach flu.” What you probably had was either food poisoning or an intestinal virus—I’ve had both, and they are indeed very, very nasty, and sometimes require split-second decisions, if you know what I mean.
The flu isn’t associated with stuffy noses or stomache problems.
Get run over by a truck and develop a brutal cough and throat conditon. Take meds to stop headache only to realize headache and body pain won’t subside, then have your fever break (sweaty, tossing nights) from all the meds, only to return – worse. Magnify by ten and then you might be diagnosed with the flu.
Vomitting …toilet vists = food poisoning (VERY COMMON)
Snotty nose = cold virus.