Swine Flu

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:40 pm

Anyone else have it/had it?

I got the symptoms a couple days ago, it's non-pleasant. I'll get worse before I get better, or so I'm told.

Anyone just come through it?

Hesh1956 · Post by **Hesh1956** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:55 am

Yeah I think that I had it and so too does my doc(s)... In the states they are now only blood testing if someone is hospitalized and they are estimating that even though the reported cases are 40,000ish the actual cases here have been over 1,000,000.

It started about 6 weeks ago with a respiratory crud, lots of mucus, coughing, high fever (104) and throwing up. Glad I keep a clean bathroom...

The worst of it lasted about 3 days but now even 6 weeks later I am still coughing a bit and have an unpleasant taste in my mouth when I do.

They put me on antibiotics when I was running the fevers, cough syrup too. The antibiotic was in case it became bacterial even though it's a virus.

On a scale of 1 - 10 for unpleasantness from being sick I would rate it a firm 8... It is NOT fun and I was told that if my fever had not broke when it did they were going to hospitalize me.

Feel better Paul and consider being seen and discussing antibiotics in case it turns into pneumonia - it's known to do that...

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:18 am

Yeah, that nasty taste in your mouth, makes everything taste like crap.

Pneumonia I've had before and know the symptoms - shortness of breath and crackling in your lungs when your try to get a breath.

They were saying on the telly the other day that of all flu patients tested in Victoria in the month of June 90% had swine flu. The doc on the telly said if you've got the flu at the moment it's likely to be swine flu.

There is another strain of flu doing the rounds, but I've already had that one a couple months ago.

Maybe its time to give up the smokes.

Hesh1956 · Post by **Hesh1956** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:02 am

How ya doing today buddy - feeling better I hope?

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:34 am

Yeah, better, thanks Hesh. Good enough to go back to work today and spread it around.

Actually this flu is mild compared to the one I had a couple months ago.

Hesh1956 · Post by **Hesh1956** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:19 am

Good to hear you are doing better Paul.

You know some folks are having swine flu parties for their kids with the idea being that this strain of it is milder than what could happen this fall and winter.... So they are exposing their kids to it, getting them sick..., and hoping that they build immunities to the more dangerous strain.

Of course I know nothing about if this is a good idea or not. But I do know that when I was a kid and the swine flu hit in the US the president (old step in cow shit while on tour Ford....

seriously he was a very honorable man) ordered the immunization of all elderly US folks. What resulted was that the vaccine was not ready for prime time and many old folks died from the vaccine.

Scary to say the least.

Well maybe you and I have antibodies now and will be the only ones well enough to grab all the tonewood the next time the flu hits....

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:49 am

Hesh1956 wrote: You know some folks are having swine flu parties for their kids with the idea being that this strain of it is milder than what could happen this fall and winter.... So they are exposing their kids to it, getting them sick..., and hoping that they build immunities to the more dangerous strain.

I know when I was a mere stripling of a kid growing up in England, if any kid had German measles (don't hear much about that one too much now, think it's been 'vaccined' out) we were all actively shoved off to school to share it, in the hope that we would get it, it's milder in children and builds up a lifetime immunity.

Not sure if it works for this "new" flu tho!

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:59 am

We had mumps parties when I was a kid. Now there's a disease that you want to get out of the way when you're still a kid.

Reminds me; my daughter got chicken pox on the day of her fourth birthday party, we had to do a mad phone around and warn all the parents. I thought we might still get a full house, but we didn't, nobody showed up.

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:18 am

If parents sent their kids outside to play in the dirt instead of sitting on their fat arses playing computer games all day they might end up a bit more resiliant to diseases.

Out here on the rigs theyre taking the swine flu thing very seriously....all it takes is one guy to come on board with swine flu and were all f******d. First thing the medic does when new guys come on board is stick a thermometer in their gob.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:59 pm

kiwigeo wrote:If parents sent their kids outside to play in the dirt instead of sitting on their fat arses playing computer games all day they might end up a bit more resiliant to diseases.

Amen to that Martin! A good gob-full of dirt builds up all sorts of resistances, sitting in a sterile air conditioned environment on the play station only builds up a resistance to doing anything.

Hesh1956 · Post by **Hesh1956** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:06 pm

Martin bro what's a "gob?" I can think of only two possibilities...

Which reminds me: when I was born the doc pulled me out and slapped me in the face by mistake...

Dennis Leahy · Post by **Dennis Leahy** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:17 am

Paul, I hope you're feeling better. I haven't had a flu of any sort in about 10 years, but I still remember it dragging my ass down for many, many weeks.

Martin is so right - we are made weaker, not stronger, in our attempted sterile environment. The wiser health officials figured out that constant use of anti-bacterial hand soaps is breeding stronger bacteria. I heard a radio broadcast Worlds of Bacteria, Alive on Your Skin where far-thinking researchers recognize that the life forms that live on our skin may be as important to our health as the life forms that live in our gut. Who would have guessed those stinky Frenchmen were so bright!

je suis dÃ©solÃ©, mes frÃ¨res et soeurs franÃ§ais !

Hesh, I'll give you a hint: if you are gobsmacked, your ass/arse doesn't feel a thing. Oh, and for my money, any member of the infamous Warren Commission (Kennedy/Oswald/lone assassin/magic bullet) was not an honorable man.

Dennis

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:27 am

Hesh, I'm guessing you didn't see the original Wille Wonk and the Chocolate Factory

sebastiaan56 · Post by **sebastiaan56** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:35 am

Good to hear you are better Paul,

The Chicken Pox that we so blithely spread around the school returned to me as Shingles 45 years later. Im not really in favour of sharing that one around, it was the most pain i ever have had.

The main vector of infection for Swine Flu (actually most Flu) is oral contamination. That means that somehow or other a live beastie gets into your mouth and infects you. It is the germs on doorknobs, keyboards etc that pass this beastie around. It is easily controlled by effective hand washing. Check out the US CDC and Canadian Infectious diseases control websites. My eldest had it but no one else in the family has because I got all Nazi about handwashing and no, you dont need alcohol wipes.

Body bugs eh Dennis, I can see a whole new class of avatars coming along....

Ron Wisdom · Post by **Ron Wisdom** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:52 pm

Yup, I agree with everything above.

When we were kids, we had everything you could catch. Three kinds of measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc. And, Sebastian, the shingles visited me about 20 years ago. Right in the middle of my back and I thought it would be my ticket out of this world, it hurt so bad.

Ron

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:11 pm

I had shingles on my head on my temple. Hurt so bad I went to the hospital, where they thought I was a junkie out for a free fix (I guess they get that). They wouldn't give me anything for the pain until late the next day when the rash developed. Those were a bad couple of days. I'd take 6 weeks of swine flu over that any day.

Didn't know you could get shingles from exposure to chicken pox though. I thought it just came back when it wanted to.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:12 pm

Hesh1956 wrote:Martin bro what's a "gob?" I can think of only two possibilities...

Gob = The mouth, an orifice located on the front of the face just below the nasal area. Often used for shoving food or copious quantities of alcohol into but can also be used for placing an oral thermometer into (as opposed to another type).

Hesh1956 wrote: Which reminds me: when I was born the doc pulled me out and slapped me in the face by mistake...

You sure it was a mistake

Was it Rodney Dangerfield that once joked that when he was born the doctor took one look at him and slapped his mother instead?

No, looking at your avatar, how could he slap a face like that?! although I see he hit you hard enough to knock a tooth out

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:59 am

Paul, I'm glad you are feeling better. I hear you about the shingles. I never got chicken pox as a kid, thought I had a natural immunity. Never reacted when I was vaccinated for it in the army. My son got chicken pox and I got shingles. I looked at the doc in disbelief when he said it was a very mild case. I couldn't imagine a nasty case.

It seems that the flu has come to visit our house. Fran's been sick for 5 days now. Dr deemed it non-designer variety, just a bug. We found this out two days after I had come home from being gone for a week. I refuse to get it.

Now you tell me you haven't been feeling well.

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