I just want to share - I've stopped smoking
Aug 18th 2009, 12:47 pm
#46
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Re: I just want to share - I've stopped smoking
How do you know for sure that it was swine flu you had?
We all thought for sure we had swine flu 6 weeks or so ago, only ever been ill like that a couple of times in my life and not for years and years either - it utterly wiped us out for a few days, we couldn't eat a thing and we slept two days straight, just couldn't get up really, all of us in the living room with the heatpump and buried in duvets coz it was very cold then (I had to force myself to keep extra-bundled up to sweat it out, as it felt at one point like it could turn into pneumonia). Then over the next few days we used up at least 6 large boxes of tissues between us, then hacking coughs, and all the time dehydrated, etc. (I can't even imagine going through that in a typical New Zealand damp unheated bedroom with just a hot water bottle. I'm sure after 2 days of it we would have had pneumonia, it was the worst cold miserable weather of the winter right when we got sick. I did have a wonder and not just a few times about how any ill New Zealanders would be coping right then, especially if everyone in the family was ill all at once like we were?? Actually, I'm still wondering!)
Anyway, when I got worried enough to phone the swine flu hotline, first thing nurse asked was if any of us had fever and I said no (I don't have a thermometer, so actually I don't know for a fact that none of us did have a fever), and she said "nup, not swine flu" and hung up.
So, after all that sufferin', we don't even know for sure whether we did or didn't have actual swine flu. Which means, of course, that we now still have to worry like everyone else does about gettin' it
So were you actually tested for swine flu? What were your symptoms, and how did it all play out as it were? I haven't met or spoken to anyone yet who says they had it who knows beyond doubt, through testing that is, that it was swine flu - it's all assumption on their part based on the symptoms they had (and they all say they had fever - damn!!).
We all thought for sure we had swine flu 6 weeks or so ago, only ever been ill like that a couple of times in my life and not for years and years either - it utterly wiped us out for a few days, we couldn't eat a thing and we slept two days straight, just couldn't get up really, all of us in the living room with the heatpump and buried in duvets coz it was very cold then (I had to force myself to keep extra-bundled up to sweat it out, as it felt at one point like it could turn into pneumonia). Then over the next few days we used up at least 6 large boxes of tissues between us, then hacking coughs, and all the time dehydrated, etc. (I can't even imagine going through that in a typical New Zealand damp unheated bedroom with just a hot water bottle. I'm sure after 2 days of it we would have had pneumonia, it was the worst cold miserable weather of the winter right when we got sick. I did have a wonder and not just a few times about how any ill New Zealanders would be coping right then, especially if everyone in the family was ill all at once like we were?? Actually, I'm still wondering!)
Anyway, when I got worried enough to phone the swine flu hotline, first thing nurse asked was if any of us had fever and I said no (I don't have a thermometer, so actually I don't know for a fact that none of us did have a fever), and she said "nup, not swine flu" and hung up.
So, after all that sufferin', we don't even know for sure whether we did or didn't have actual swine flu. Which means, of course, that we now still have to worry like everyone else does about gettin' it
So were you actually tested for swine flu? What were your symptoms, and how did it all play out as it were? I haven't met or spoken to anyone yet who says they had it who knows beyond doubt, through testing that is, that it was swine flu - it's all assumption on their part based on the symptoms they had (and they all say they had fever - damn!!).
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Aug 18th 2009, 8:54 pm
#47
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Re: I just want to share - I've stopped smoking
How do you know for sure that it was swine flu you had?
We all thought for sure we had swine flu 6 weeks or so ago, only ever been ill like that a couple of times in my life and not for years and years either - it utterly wiped us out for a few days, we couldn't eat a thing and we slept two days straight, just couldn't get up really, all of us in the living room with the heatpump and buried in duvets coz it was very cold then (I had to force myself to keep extra-bundled up to sweat it out, as it felt at one point like it could turn into pneumonia). Then over the next few days we used up at least 6 large boxes of tissues between us, then hacking coughs, and all the time dehydrated, etc. (I can't even imagine going through that in a typical New Zealand damp unheated bedroom with just a hot water bottle. I'm sure after 2 days of it we would have had pneumonia, it was the worst cold miserable weather of the winter right when we got sick. I did have a wonder and not just a few times about how any ill New Zealanders would be coping right then, especially if everyone in the family was ill all at once like we were?? Actually, I'm still wondering!)
Anyway, when I got worried enough to phone the swine flu hotline, first thing nurse asked was if any of us had fever and I said no (I don't have a thermometer, so actually I don't know for a fact that none of us did have a fever), and she said "nup, not swine flu" and hung up.
So, after all that sufferin', we don't even know for sure whether we did or didn't have actual swine flu. Which means, of course, that we now still have to worry like everyone else does about gettin' it
So were you actually tested for swine flu? What were your symptoms, and how did it all play out as it were? I haven't met or spoken to anyone yet who says they had it who knows beyond doubt, through testing that is, that it was swine flu - it's all assumption on their part based on the symptoms they had (and they all say they had fever - damn!!).
We all thought for sure we had swine flu 6 weeks or so ago, only ever been ill like that a couple of times in my life and not for years and years either - it utterly wiped us out for a few days, we couldn't eat a thing and we slept two days straight, just couldn't get up really, all of us in the living room with the heatpump and buried in duvets coz it was very cold then (I had to force myself to keep extra-bundled up to sweat it out, as it felt at one point like it could turn into pneumonia). Then over the next few days we used up at least 6 large boxes of tissues between us, then hacking coughs, and all the time dehydrated, etc. (I can't even imagine going through that in a typical New Zealand damp unheated bedroom with just a hot water bottle. I'm sure after 2 days of it we would have had pneumonia, it was the worst cold miserable weather of the winter right when we got sick. I did have a wonder and not just a few times about how any ill New Zealanders would be coping right then, especially if everyone in the family was ill all at once like we were?? Actually, I'm still wondering!)
Anyway, when I got worried enough to phone the swine flu hotline, first thing nurse asked was if any of us had fever and I said no (I don't have a thermometer, so actually I don't know for a fact that none of us did have a fever), and she said "nup, not swine flu" and hung up.
So, after all that sufferin', we don't even know for sure whether we did or didn't have actual swine flu. Which means, of course, that we now still have to worry like everyone else does about gettin' it
So were you actually tested for swine flu? What were your symptoms, and how did it all play out as it were? I haven't met or spoken to anyone yet who says they had it who knows beyond doubt, through testing that is, that it was swine flu - it's all assumption on their part based on the symptoms they had (and they all say they had fever - damn!!).
She's now on her second round of it.Oh and thanks for the concern regarding the house but we were perfectly warm and cosy :-)
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Unless you are referring to its after sex appeal?
Aug 21st 2009, 5:41 am
#49
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Re: I just want to share - I've stopped smoking
Keep working on it batty 
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