INFLUENZA SUCKS.

[rhino]

Flu sucks.

That is all.

 

[chocktaw2]

Yes it does, all around.

 

[actaeon277]

I disagree

 

[Expat]

I got the flu shot.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I got the flu shot.

You're gonna catch the autism or something.

 

[indykid]

I got the flu shot.

My daughter got the flu shot, then a few months later, the flu. Good old influenza A.

 

[walleyepw]

The flu sucks! Hope you get well soon.

 

[Hoosierdood]

You're gonna catch the autism or something.

Then you'll really have an excuse for the way you behave.

 

[gungirl65]

I had a customer give me and one of my employees type B flu last year. The first seven days were brutal. It probably took a good month or two to get back to normal.

 

[rhino]

I got the flu shot.

I did too. I hope Jenny McCarthy doesn't come over and kick my ass. I really, really hope that Jenny McCarthy doesn't come to my house and teach me a lesson. That would be just horrible.

On the bright side, whatever hit me was less severe than what I've had in the past. Could be a wimpier strain or maybe it was close enough to one of the flu shot's strains antibodies to help a bit. Who knows. The really bad part was only a couple of days. The bouts I had with the high fever spikes and the chills/intense shivering were . . . bad, but there were fewer of them than in the past. Maybe my immune system just isn't strong enough to put me down as hard as it used to be!

 

[JeepHammer]

I got the flu BAD about 15 years ago, and started getting the flu shots at the VA.
Knock wood, I've been sick a day or two, but haven't needed the hospital again since then.
It doesn't cover 100% of the ways flu can mutate, but it does seem to reduce the severity & length of the flu when you do catch it, or that's the way it seems to me.

At $30-$35 dollars (at our pharmacy) I pay for the wife's shot, she says it's worth $35 NOT to miss a week of work.
Same deal with her, she's not had the flu really bad since she started getting the shot.
Again I do the know if it's the law of averages or the shot, but she used to get the flu bad every couple years.

As much as I like young nurses taking care for me, I'm WAY to sick to do anything about it with the flu...
It's had to attempt seduction when you can't get off the toilet and can't stop throwing up... Just not very attractive...
Not that they were interested anyway!

 

[NKBJ]

Gives me the shivers just reading about it.

 

[Expat]

I did too. I hope Jenny McCarthy doesn't come over and kick my ass. I really, really hope that Jenny McCarthy doesn't come to my house and teach me a lesson. That would be just horrible.
!

She was certainly a fine looking woman back in the day....

 

[Spear Dane]

I did too. I hope Jenny McCarthy doesn't come over and kick my ass. I really, really hope that Jenny McCarthy doesn't come to my house and teach me a lesson. That would be just horrible.

On the bright side, whatever hit me was less severe than what I've had in the past. Could be a wimpier strain or maybe it was close enough to one of the flu shot's strains antibodies to help a bit. Who knows. The really bad part was only a couple of days. The bouts I had with the high fever spikes and the chills/intense shivering were . . . bad, but there were fewer of them than in the past. Maybe my immune system just isn't strong enough to put me down as hard as it used to be!

Yeah it is my understanding that even if you get the flu anyway you will suffer less and get over it faster. The shot is not a guarantee by any means. Flu virus's are moving targets and constantly mutating.

 

[Tactically Fat]

A colloquial way to determine if you have the flu for real:

Someone just put $1000 cash on your front porch - do you go get it or not?

If you decide to go get it - you don't have the flu.

 

[halfmileharry]

Flu sucks.

That is all.

Cut it out and get well soon.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

You know what I hate . . . people who disparage the flu.

If you would read INGO then you know the way not to get sick is to sweep your floors and to avoid Poptarts.

 

[rhino]

A colloquial way to determine if you have the flu for real:

Someone just put $1000 cash on your front porch - do you go get it or not?

If you decide to go get it - you don't have the flu.

I actually thanked God explicitly for helping me to live through last Thursday. When it was really bad, even if there was a winning powerball ticket next to me on the floor, I wouldn't have been able to get to it. If I had it in my hand, I would have lost it from the shaking.

 

[indiucky]

Flu sucks.

That is all.

Almost brought down my dad this year...58 days in the hospital...Went in with "the flu"....This years was bad....

 

[Expat]

There was a flu that went through just about 100 years ago that left a lot of headstones down in E. KY.