This Year's Flu

[fan_since79]

They say it's getting worse, all over the country. California has been especially hard hit. The worst flu season in years.

This story from Texas is tragic:

http://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/news/local_news/weatherford-teacher-dies-from-flu-effects/article_fc4f5dd6-d1d9-5bbc-9663-2d2c52a22998.html

[Taylor]

Looks like @mtangelsfan is safe.
 

[Chuck]

I got it 5 weeks ago and it was gnarly. 

It lasted 4 days.  Had the chills/fever and all the stomach issues that come along with it. 

[Tank]

our school started getting hit with it the last couple of weeks. hit a couple of teachers and several kids. still hanging around but the sick are fewer in number this week.

of course, none of this prevented parents from sending their feverish kids to school anyway. smh.

[gotbeer]

Got lucky and I have gotten allergies more than the flu/cold this season. 

[Tank]

1 minute ago, gotbeer said:

Got lucky

wrong forum.

[fan_since79]

My aunt died from the flu in 1974. She was 50 years old. She got sick and two days later was gone.

[AngelsLakersFan]

I started to feel it on Christmas eve. Probably the sickest I have been in the last decade.

[AngelsLakersFan]

1 minute ago, calscuf said:

There are no gastrointestinal symptoms associated with the flu.

That was just the bean dip

[Tank]

it's been very surprising to me to see how many deaths have happened from this flu. kids and elderly are not surprising, but there have been people our ages that have died from this flu, including a 40 yr old woman who was a jogger and in reasonably good health.

[Chuck]

2 minutes ago, calscuf said:

There are no gastrointestinal symptoms associated with the flu.

Oh, then that must have been the montezuma's revenge then. 

[fan_since79]

Coming up on the 100th anniversary of the worst flu epidemic in history. The PBS show on it was terrifying.

 

[mtangelsfan]

30 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Looks like @mtangelsfan is safe.
 

I don't know where they are getting their information from but between the Flu, Strep Throat and a nasty cold seems like everyone in my town has been sick.  Including myself, my wife and my older boy.

[DCAngelsFan]

8 minutes ago, Tank said:

it's been very surprising to me to see how many deaths have happened from this flu. kids and elderly are not surprising, but there have been people our ages that have died from this flu, including a 40 yr old woman who was a jogger and in reasonably good health.

Flu deaths are chronically under-reported, but some years, are estimated to exceed 50,000 in the US.  It's not just the old, young, or chronically ill - flu can cause an inflammatory response that spins out of control, and can kill otherwise-healthy people in hours.  People seriously underestimate how dangerous flu can be ...

 

[Amazing Larry]

Flu took out about half our sales floor this year. Two people developed pneumonia.

[m0nkey]

I had the flu about 2.5 years ago for the first time and I thought I was going to die

[ten ocho recon scout]

5 hours ago, Tank said:

of course, none of this prevented parents from sending their feverish kids to school anyway. smh.

Didnt know my boss' kids went to your school. Give them all Fs.

[Blarg]

5 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

Coming up on the 100th anniversary of the worst flu epidemic in history. The PBS show on it was terrifying.

 

Yup, caused the deaths of millions. The Dodge Brothers both died of the flu three months apart from each other, leaving their car company in the hands of their widows.

[ten ocho recon scout]

57 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Yup, caused the deaths of millions. The Dodge Brothers both died of the flu three months apart from each other, leaving their car company in the hands of their widows.

Thats insane. My A.D.D. recently kicked in and i resd up about the spanish flu. Hollllly smokes. On the heels of WW1.

Nature always wins. 

[Tank]

4 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Didnt know my boss' kids went to your school. Give them all Fs.

done!

i'll tell them the police ordered me to do it.

[cez]

17 hours ago, m0nkey said:

I had the flu about 2.5 years ago for the first time and I thought I was going to die

I got it for the first time in college, and thought the same. 

It was during finals week, and after not being able to move for 3 days, I tried going to class. I almost passed out walking up the stairs. It was scary because I wasn't sure I was going to be able to make it back down.

I'm a public school teacher now, and go through a 32 oz container of hand sanitizer every couple months.  Yes, I know hand washing is better, but with the cleanliness of the bathrooms here, I might as well just inject myself with flu. 

[Brandon]

got hit back to back. had an "infection" from the week before christmas until the first week of january. started feeling good then got hit with an ear infection and strep about two weeks ago. went to my primary this time instead of urgent care and she legitimately asked me if i have aids or hiv because my immune system was shot to shit to get sick back to back. 

[Adam]

You guys are pussies

[Angel Oracle]

Got the flu shot at the end of September, before going on a cruise.

Colds have been stupid crazy since December, cough lingering for weeks when I rarely had coughing issues before.   Nothing severe, but it goes away and then comes back like a bad penny.   

[nate]

I got it right after Christmas.  It sucked, took two weeks to really shake it.