I got it. Anyone else? Blecchhh.

Wow, take care John!

I was just going to go look for the swine flu thread..I think there was already one posted at some point.

Three of my grandchildren were over last weekend. The oldest was not feeling very well. As it turns out, she had swine flu. Not only her, but her sister also ended up getting swine flu. Their temperature's are down to normal and they are now doing fine. My nephew also got it, but is now fine also. Luckily, the wife and I never ended up getting it.

Take care of yourself, John.

See my previous Swine Flu thread.

It absolutely floored me. You're told that symptoms include "tiredness", but that doesn't begin to describe the extreme fatigue I experienced. I'd say it took a week of feeling dreadful and then a further week of convalescence before I felt well again.

All you can do is take the Tamiflu and stay in bed.

But from my own experience, the side-effects of the Tamiflu were almost as bad as the symptoms of the virus itself!

We were told to expect a more serious Autumn mutation of the comparatively mild Summer virus and it looks as though it's arrived. The number of reported cases in London has doubled over the past week.

Take care of youself, John. Stay in bed, mate. Drink lots of fluids.

John, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you get better soon

I was worried about Torin, but it turns out he has scarlet fever, which is not quite as bad, but a bit worrying

I don't want to go out. I want to stay in. What song is that from?


Dude, that sucks. Suffering sucks. Pigs on the wing with the flu suck. OK, whatever it is yer suppose to do for it, hope it works in abundance (that can't be how you spell that) for ya.


Ya have to hear Dylan's live version of 'Mutineer' and 'Accidently Like A Martyr.' The links somewhere at ER.




Aloha...

Hope you feel better soon John.

I don't fear getting it myself but I am a bit concerned about our two kids - four and six - who are in one of the hardest hit groups here in The Netherlands. It's nasty, no doubt about it, but I'm glad as hell it's not a bird-flu epidemic,

Thanks, guys. They let me out of hospital today, but I can't go back to work til Thursday - still possibly contagious - and won't see my grandkids - or their pregnant moms - til next weekend. Better safe than sorry. At least it's not airborne via computer, so I can whang away here, if I feel up to it. So maybe it wasn't swine flue - I've got asthma anyway - why take a chance, right?

I got a lab test, but the results weren't back when they discharged me - I think they needed the bed, the ER was crowded when they admitted me. They just said assume you did have it, worst case, don't infect other people. Hence staying home til Thursday. Can't even go to the crdiac rehab gym til then, to keep my blood pressure in check. Curses. I'll read a Buddhist book, right?

Karen Armstrong has a new biography of the Buddha - I think that'll work. Then there's alway Hesse's Siddharta - a pleasure for fifty years now.

Lessee... I went in on Thursday morning, they let me out this afternoon. I guess they needed the bed, the ER was filled to the doors with people and masks. I'm still quarantined til Thursday, when I get to go back to teaching, find the little swine who came to class contagious and put me in he hospital. I'll deck the little swine who gave me the swine flu....

How are you feeling now, John? Any improvement?