The Flu

I got The Flu right after Thanksgiving...thought it could
be food poisoning from the Big Bird on the BBQ our hosts
made but figured it was The Flu after the quick onset
of chills and fever over a hundred. A couple of hits
over the bowl and felt like eating again after a couple
of days. Got my flu shot but didn't cover totally this
other strain.

Anyone else love talking about The Flu?

I was watching a report the other night where they said that this is the worst season in a long time. The number of cases so far is greater than the total number of cases from last season, and it's only the beginning of December!

In my area, Western MA, they said that there were over 100 people in the ER for it, and that it was "epidemic proportion" in the Springfield/Holyoke MA area.

My dad has MS and an compromised immune system, so we have to be wicked careful around here with the germs.

Hope you feel better soon!

and then my mom. My boss had it last week as well. I've had a touch of something since Friday, and haven't been able to get out much all weekened. I was pretty sick all night last night, but am feeling better. Mine is probably a nasty head cold. My co-worker got a flu shot, but supposedly that was not the right shot for this new flu.

It's been about 2 weeks now, but my stomach is still really delicate, even a fraction too much to eat, and (urp)

Also still a little weak.
I wonder who was driving that M1 tank that ran over me? :-)

I've heard people say they got the worst flu of their lives after getting a flu shot. I dont trust them. Who knows whats really in them, i mean they put mercury in polio vaccines.

The meningitis vaccine I got made me drowsy, and I slept for 14 hours on Friday night/Saturday morning.

The doc was reluctant to call it the flu because it was so early, but that's definitely what it was. It sucked. She was sporting 104 for days. I was NOT going through that again (for her or me, LOL), and was going to get her the flu shot in case she *hadn't* had the flu. But I've been hearing over and over that the flu shot is useless this year.

Hope you get better soon!

I'm praying I don't get it before December 12, cause the vaccine takes two weeks to become effective.

every single year we're warned that it's going to be a bad flu season, and sure enough early reports always claim it's a doozy so far. And yet, we haven't really had a good epidemic here since when? 1977? Something like that.

Personally, I won't get the flu shot. I'm young enough (55) and in excellent health, and I'd rather get the real thing and have the immunity that confers than fool with the shot. But some people should get it -- the elderly (defined variously as over 50, over 55, over 70, whatever) and especially those with a compromised immune system.

I suspect an important reason there hasn't been a major flu epidemic in so long is simple hygiene. Hand washing is the best disease preventive thing ever.

Meanwhile, sympathy to those who've been ill.