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UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Apr 26 2009 06:47 am

This was all over the news on the radio last night. Seems like the pigs were tired of all the attention bird flu was getting.

I've already asked how sick you have to be before you call out of work, so I'm gonna ask something else: What's the sickest you can ever remember being?

Myself, it was shortly after I moved to California, I caught a nasty flu bug...and at the time, I thought "flu" meant "fever, puke a few times, you're fine in 2 days". Oh, was I so wrong.

I missed a week of work, and for 3 of those days, I quite literally could not muster up enough energy to get out of the bed (my girlfriend, now wife, had to help me if I needed to get up for something). All told I had the flu for 2 weeks total, and then picked up bronchitis that held on for another month before it finally cleared out.

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When i was in 8th grade, I had something similar during spring break. My mother calls it "muscular flu", but I don't think it's the real name. It describes the symptoms rather well though.

And of course, I had it ONLY during spring break, with only the last day I didn't have the flu and had to do my homework. ARRRGH!

Also, I've had a cold for 16 days. I hope it won't develop into something nastier.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 08:37 am

Where I work we have to have a note from the dr to call out sick without penalty, and since most walk in clinic visits cost a hell of a lot more than we lose in wages from being out sick a few days everyone comes to work sick. It's like sticking your face into a carousel and letting the horses smack you in the head every time they come around, we're constantly trading colds and viruses since we all share work stations. Mad

Posted: Apr 26 2009 08:56 am

Last summer I caught a nasty flu and I couldn't work for three days. I hit the point where I was coughing up blood, I was hot blooded, had a fever of 103 and I had to take some really potent medicine. Let me tell you I had the craziest dreams.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 11:25 am

I swear I've heard of "Swine Flu" before this event....and that it was from a cartoon....

Posted: Apr 26 2009 11:31 am

Probably one of the several times I have had strep throat. I had huge toncils so that certainly didn't help at all. Swallowing anything, just swallowing period felt like someone was scraping the inside of my throat with a rusty knife.

Also when I had surgery to remove the tonsils and fix my nose, my throat felt like I had strep throat and when they pulled a tube out of my throat after surgery I guess I gagged(was unconscious) and fluid got into my lungs so I went in healthy, just fixing things up, came out with horrible throat main and pneumonia, was out of commission for a little over a weak, didn't feal fully better for a month or more, things didn't taste liek they used to for aobut 2-3months.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 01:50 pm

Last year I had a soar throat and lost my voice for close to two months.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 02:16 pm

Slightly off topic but in regards to notes required for call outs, I've got a funny one from school. My mother who was tired of dealing with my bullshit told me to write my own notes when I skipped and basically gave me the go ahead to forge her name for this purpose. I promptly exercised my new found right.

The notes started off normal, cold, flu etc, then out of boredom I started getting a little more creative. Notes excusing my absence due to a trip to the family planning center to get checked for stds were not cutting it on the funny meter for me anymore, so I went for the win and came to school one day that apologized for my tardiness due to an unfortunate case of stigmata. I got all the way to 4th period until a teacher actually read the damn thing and called my bluff.

Back on topic. Smile

Posted: Apr 26 2009 02:32 pm

I had Norovirus around New Year's Eve '04. Spent a couple days where I was spewing from both ends at the same time.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 04:03 pm

I had Acute Gastric Distress or something back around '04. My parents drove me to the hospital and we were all put in quarantine. Water was exiting my body anyway it could, to the point where I was dry heaving into the garabge can and had to be put on saline.

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I just remember my head hurting and losing all sense of up and down. That was one miserable flu.

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SSNintendo wrote:

I had Norovirus around New Year's Eve '04. Spent a couple days where I was spewing from both ends at the same time.

Same symptoms, same holiday, but in New Years '00. That was the day I found out I was allergic to soy.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 11:07 pm

I've had strep throat at least 20 times. Literally. It probably has something to do with the fact that I refuse to get my tonsils taken out (who knows what it'll do to my voice?), but it sucks. Every time.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 11:32 pm

I have a friend who is visiting Mexico for three weeks right now, I laughed when I heard about the flu

Posted: Apr 27 2009 12:33 am

I posted about it before, but practially all-water diarhea combined with intense vomitting, sometimes both coming out at the same time. I wound up crouching in the bathtub with my face looking down into the toilet. I blame it all on canned salmon patties I thought were safe. My energy level made me feel like a zombie or Sideshow Bob after stumbling into rakes 20+ times.

Posted: Apr 27 2009 01:18 am

One episode of the flu I had when I was a teenager left me with a 104 degree fever and ended up sending me to the ER for dehydration. That was probably the worst time I can recall. There have also been two times in my life when I had two simultaneous ear infections that caused me to go temporarily deaf for almost a month.

Posted: Apr 27 2009 06:00 am

jackfrost wrote:

There have also been two times in my life when I had two simultaneous ear infections that caused me to go temporarily deaf for almost a month.

do what?

But seriously though man, that sucks

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I apparently god mono freshman year of college, but I didn't know what it was. My throat swelled up to the point where I couldn't eat. I lost 15 pounds before I finally saw a doctor who gave me antibiotics.

The best was I got food poisoning the night before Thanksgiving. The next morning I was on the toilet with a case a explosive diarreah and I had to open the shower door so I could throw up while I was crapping. My mom thought I was hung over so she was lecturing me through the bathroom door while this was happening.

Posted: Apr 27 2009 02:53 pm

I guess I'm lucky here-- last time I took off school sick was one week in 8th grade. Had a stomach virus and a terrible cold or something (I forgot), but during that week, we started getting satellite TV in that house, so that pretty much balanced it out.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Apr 27 2009 03:27 pm

Quote:

I apparently god mono freshman year of college, but I didn't know what it was.

Once I thought I had mono for a whole year.

Turns out I was just really bored.

Posted: Apr 27 2009 03:35 pm

Worst I've ever been sick was stomach flu in 6th grade. Apparently the next day at school they had to shut down because half the kids were sick. After that, I didn't puke again until 12th grade (thanks alcohol!)

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Apr 27 2009 05:01 pm

The swine flu outbreak has been declared a pandemic.

I'm so...startled.

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Not a full-fledged pandemic yet. The WHO is at phase 4, which is apparently "sustained human to human transmission." It's time to start worrying when it gets to phase 5, "widespread human infection.":

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html

Posted: Apr 27 2009 07:25 pm

And then come the zombies

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Pandemics refer to how easy it is for the disease to be transmitted... has nothing to do with the dangerousness of the disease.

Although the media is going apeshit over swine flu, please keep in mind that the regular, common variety, seasonal flu kills a half a million people worldwide every year. Also keep in mind that all the deaths so far have been in Mexico... where I'm willing to bet healthcare isn't quite as good as in the U.S. (or Canada for Ross). ALSO keep in mind that it's treatable with Tamiflu.. an anti-viral medication. Finally, also keep in mind that most people who have gotten it have simply gotten better (all while sitting on their ass at home).

So while I understand the tendency towards panic... try not to. I'm willing to bet we'll all be fine.

Or we'll all be dead and you won't be able to point out that I was wrong.