Well I hope like hell everyone else avoids this mongrel as it near got the better of me.
Usually colds and flus for me are a couple of days feeling a tad off colour then back to it.
NOT. Yesterday was the first time in 8 days that had to force myself to actually eat else I'd not a linger much a longer. Trying to hold down what fluids I could was the best I could do before that, most usually came up once the fever rolled in an out again on it's 4 hourly cycle. (39.4 was the first measurement I did).
This virus presented itself a a cough with flushes. Beddies. ( Alias: Sweat pit of hell). Dreams and elementary thoughts became as mush in a blender with me several times ranting on like an obvious nutter.
Still have it and have to balance the hot/colds using ibuprofen, but for the most part I've been out of bed today. Finding it very hard to eat, but I'll get there. Feeling a lot like the run over by a tractor vision.
In a nutshell .... if you haven't had it and someone coughs near you ...... RUN!
Glad you're feeling better Uni but I hope it doesn't make it's way up here.Do get the
yearly Flu injection?
Thanks Stevo ....... I've never had one before, but after this fisasco I think some serious consideration is in order.
(as a testament to how crap one can feel, my camera lens extension tubes arrived last Thursday ...... package still unopened on my desk :laugh2:)
sounds like an awful flu Uni :heart:
I got my first flue jab last week, now I have a bloody cold :cray:
here's something to help cheer you up Uni xxx
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10035/11667489_10153437062019660_2331914865209271490_n.jpg)
Jeeze RG I nearly wet myself laughing at that :laugh2:
Sounds like you have had a rough trot Uni but good to hear that you are on the mend. Hope you are back to full health very soon.
Pedro
Sorry to hear you're under the weather Uni. I hope your recovery is swift from here on and I do recommend that you have the flu shot each year. I had my first one this year after 2 bouts of something evil last year and so far so good.
All the best. :friends:
RG, that Unicorn is great. :yahoo:
I second that -same here and so far, so good.
:laugh2: Thanks heaps RG ..... I actually think I may have looked like that at some stage over the past week!
Thanks all for the well wishes, they are really appreciated and I think the jab will be the go for next year.
Doesn't sound good at all uni, hope you beat it soon. Our story isn't much better, the Wife and I attended a family thing in Sydney about six weeks ago where a couple of them had the coughs. We've been at it ever since, up and down and just when you think it's beaten, back it comes bigger and better..... bugger it. The Wife was diagnosed with pneumonia earlier in the week , the antibiotics are like 44 gallon drums but have had a good effect. We both have the flu shot every year but hasn't stopped the bugs as this is the fourth round for me in 18 months, maybe the inoculation lessens the severity if you're unlucky enough to catch something.
Hope you are well soon.
Gee Auto, I hope your Wife has a quick recovery.
That does sound a lot like our strain, little Uni's GF had the coughs for a few weeks before any of the rest of us caught it, but once we did BAM!
Now all 6 in the house fully have it.
Our Dr couldn't give us our shots until late June as he said we wouldn't be covered for the new strain until the latest vaccine became available.
I've looked online and can't really find anything that would substantiate his statement, but there was a delay in supply until April sometime.
A couple people I know in the Newcastle area got their shots in late Mar, so I doubt they'll be covered for the new strain.
Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='75438' dateline='1436477875'Gee Auto, I hope your Wife has a quick recovery.
Thanks uni, she's making good progress, and likewise to your family.
I reckon you doctor was right Nevol
at my work (a hospital) they delayed the flu vac as there has been an a high incidence of another Infl B overseas (we usually get asked to have them in March)
the first vaccine had 3 -
2 X A and 1 X B - "Trivalent vaccines include two influenza A strains and one B strain"
so now the vaccine has 4 -
2 x A infl and 2 x B infl - "The quadrivalent vaccines contain the same strains as the trivalent vaccines with the addition of a second influenza B strain. "
TGA website has the information
https://www.tga.gov.au/media-release/2015-seasonal-influenza-vaccines
there are influenzas that you can't get vaccinated for
In 2012 I caught parainfluenza type A and C. pneumoniae and got pneumonia - no vaccine is available for that either - I was off work for 5 weeks with that bout - a blood test picked up the critters. At one stage i.e. 2 days before the pneumonia was picked up on chest xray I was told that I had asthma and given steroids which of course fed the infection beautifully!! So chest things are complex and do require medical review (from a skilled doctor) for best outcomes.
I do hope you're back into it soon Uni, sounds like a nasty strain. I skipped the jab this year, I hope I don't regret it.
RG that corn is priceless.
Thanks PP. Tiny steps at the moment. Physically not crash hot, but better than the other day. Mentally, I think someone has plugged something in the wrong socket and my head is running a commodore 64. Mrs Uni is wiped out worse than before now though with a return rebout. (Gee it's sounding so much like Auto's virus).