Author Topic: Topic 6: SWINE FLU! (Read 7694 times)

Derrick · « **on:** May 19, 2009, 09:39:16 PM »

Media Hype and complete bullshit. Boo Media.

Rama · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2009, 01:13:05 AM »

I was actually sick during the height of this scare. I ended up going to the doctor with a cough, pain in the back and chest, and no energy and they gave me my own private quarantined waiting room. I was just worried I might have pneumonia, they thought I was carrying the plague.

Derrick · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2009, 08:03:15 AM »

I was scratched by a cat and worried that I had FELINE FLU!

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2009, 01:16:35 PM »

Eddie was aching like crazy all day yesterday and coughing; fine today. I think he slept pretzled around one of the dogs wrong.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4 on:** May 20, 2009, 03:59:06 PM »

All you need to know about it.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2009, 09:02:46 AM »

So much for my secondary medical practice. Eddie had a temp of 101 last night with aches & deep hacking cough. Off to the doc he goes this morning. If it's flu, we're not particularly concerned about what flavor it is, but if swine, he might be able to circumnavigate the company's shitty sick leave of 5 days a year. "Sure, I'll come in - how many departments do you want infected?"

Derrick · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2009, 03:33:03 PM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 20, 2009, 03:59:06 PM

All you need to know about it.

It originates from bad dramas? Time to clense Hollywood.

B E C K · « **Reply #7 on:** May 22, 2009, 01:30:44 AM »

I thought it was funny that the people that need to stay home the most (like the people that handle your food) are the ones who are least able to.

The media scare stuff is whack. When I started seeing swine flu stuff everywhere, I thought it was serious. It's just a regular flu? Really? Shit! I like the signs posted everywhere on campus telling people to wash their hands. You filthy assholes should be doing that already! I mean, really, you bitches need a sign?

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2009, 08:47:41 AM »

Talk about hysteria - if Eddie's flu is porcine in nature, management wants me to stay home next week whether I feel bad or not. WIN!!!

Derrick · « **Reply #9 on:** May 22, 2009, 09:05:05 AM »

Just bring in bacon and start eating it like crazy. If they ask why, start coughing. Home office? Yes.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #10 on:** May 22, 2009, 09:22:14 AM »

Bacon? Who are you talking to here?

If anything, us getting swine flu would be absolute proof that pork products are NOT a source of infection. I think he picked it up when we went to the hospital to see his mother. ICU was way off in some odd corner and we got lost and got in & out of various elevators 7-8 times. Not like they sanatize the buttons.

IDE · « **Reply #11 on:** May 22, 2009, 03:26:31 PM »

I don't have TV right now and still don't know or care about whatever this is.

Being raised on nectar and ambrosia I'm probably immune anyway.

Derrick · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2009, 08:28:51 AM »

Famous last words. SKY IS FALLING!

B E C K · « **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2009, 04:26:39 PM »

Quote from: IDE on May 22, 2009, 03:26:31 PM

I don't have TV right now and still don't know or care about whatever this is.

Being raised on nectar and ambrosia I'm probably immune anyway.

Your blood is probably the cure.

Rama · « **Reply #14 on:** May 24, 2009, 02:34:57 AM »

Guess we have to cut and drain him to see.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #15 on:** May 24, 2009, 06:56:58 AM »

If it is, I'm buying his plane ticket to Houston. I'm tired. 4 days of Eddie's fever going down to 99, up to 102. Down, up, down, up, set the alarm for midnight, 2 & 4 am for the damn pills....

Well, everybody was wrong! Just got back from the emergency room where Eddie was admitted with 104 fever - viral bronchitis. IV, oxygen, bronchial dialators, the whole works. On an inhaler & steroids, no work for the rest of the week and no hockey for him for quite a while. Moral of the story - if you ain't getting better, go back to the doctor and RAISE HELL!!

IDE · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2009, 06:25:03 PM »

Something weird happened to me awhile ago when I bitten by a tick that involved a couple days of fever going up and down.

Unfortunately for me the I give insects super powers, not the other way around.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2009, 07:40:03 PM »

So that's where the Tick came from....

The ER doc was fulla shit. Eddie is in the hospital right now, getting an oxygen treatment and IV antibiotics. Relieved by his finally seeing someone who knows what he's doing, I will get my first night's sleep since May 21st. He's down to under 150 lbs. - not real good when one is 6' - but helped by his first experience with 1000 mg. of Vicodin, he actually ate. Maybe it's just this hospital, but that was a damn good spread - grilled cheese sammich, wild rice, grilled mixed veggies, orange slices, salad, sweet potatoes. No watery gruel there.

And I thought not having kids would exclude me from this sleepless night ER & hospital crap.

On the plus side, if there is one, his brother will actually have to lift a finger to care for their mother and my skinny jeans are now my loose jeans.

B E C K · « **Reply #18 on:** Jun 03, 2009, 03:16:54 AM »

Sometimes I think going to the hospital is one big Darwinesque test.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #19 on:** Jun 04, 2009, 06:58:48 PM »

If I had an accident I would not go to the ER where I'm doing clinicals right now. You just don't know who's on call, and some of those guys I'd prefer to avoid.

Sam · « **Reply #20 on:** Oct 02, 2009, 12:38:54 PM »

I picked up ðe H1N1 in ðe week after DragonCon weekend. It kinda sucked. I ended up doing a biking/climbing competition ðe following weekend wiþ a fever of 103. Explain why I was feeling so weak.

Fiero · « **Reply #21 on:** Oct 02, 2009, 04:15:30 PM »

You should have sweated it out then, right? Right? No?

There are some areas where it is a big scare, mostly where children or old people are involved. The rest of us from tweens to middle age are gonna likely be just fine.

If I had kids and there was a swine flue scare, I don't know what I would do. FFFFUUU

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #22 on:** Oct 02, 2009, 07:37:35 PM »

Fuck the swine flu shot yo. Docs gave me a ""normal"" flu shot on Monday kind of against my will, I ain't getting the swine flu one, that's for sure >

Fiero · « **Reply #23 on:** Oct 02, 2009, 10:17:16 PM »

I probably won't ever get a flu shot again.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #24 on:** Oct 02, 2009, 11:40:20 PM »

H1N1's a bitch because people have no real resistance built up to it yet. But it's no worse than regular non-swine flu as far as what it does to you. It's just more likely to be caught.

Rama · « **Reply #25 on:** Oct 03, 2009, 12:37:34 AM »

Best way to get the flu is to get a flu shot.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #26 on:** Oct 03, 2009, 08:13:23 AM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 02, 2009, 11:40:20 PM

H1N1's a bitch because people have no real resistance built up to it yet. But it's no worse than regular non-swine flu as far as what it does to you. It's just more likely to be caught.

Ehm its a new shot that the gov't is trying to push on us. Did you hear what happen with the original flu shot? Some of they (and/or their unborn kids) developed the Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and some other died. So screw that. Since I'm in the "high risk" category i KNOW I'm going to be bothered to no extent to get it, but I'm not doing it, no sire!

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #27 on:** Oct 03, 2009, 08:50:51 PM »

I'm trying to figure out why you quoted me, as I didn't say anything about a flu or swine flu shot...neither of which I'm getting.

Rama · « **Reply #28 on:** Oct 04, 2009, 01:23:05 AM »

It's good to have Faye back ain't it?

B E C K · « **Reply #29 on:** Oct 04, 2009, 01:24:49 AM »

Yes, yes. Good times, friends. Good times.