I told my Mom I had swine flu just to hear her reaction. I only let her believe it for about fifteen seconds though. Anything longer than that may have killed her.
Yeah.. I have a mother who I would totally do that to just to hear her reaction, and I did it too
. But.. I actually have the shit, as opposed to joking... and she did flip. She's fine now though, no heart attacks, just a lot of worried phone calls
It's not as bad as they're making it out to be, though I wouldn't wish it on anyone. It's still the flu, it's still potentially dangerous, and it still puts you out of commission for at least a few days, but it's not any more and possibly even a little less severe than the normal one. I was over the symptoms in like 2 days, and even though they were gone, after they "confirmed" that I was a case of H1N1, Ohio's Department of Health asked me to stay in isolation (which is reasonable enough), and also to take a full course of Tamiflu before leaving isolation. Even though I'd been past 48 hours of having symptoms, and therefore Tamiflu was nearly worthless. Even though I had few symptoms and was out of the infectious period.
So they do have a tendency to want to throw drugs at it, even if they're not needed, and I'm worried about that, because that'll probably just make the inevitable mutation into a supernastybug come that much sooner.
In the meantime, I'm out of class and work for a week and a day. Oh life, what curveballs you throw us. Just for the record, I'm still not worried at all about the swine flu, and you shouldn't be either, unless you are already chronically ill or are an older person. It will not kill you if you seek medical care for the complications.. dehydration and pneumonia are the big threats. Had the 1st one, and once they fixed that via an IV drip in the ER, my symptoms almost disappeared completely.
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