Oh, fudge. Apparently, something that might be H1N1 flu i.e. pig plague is in town. I can live with fever, aching etc. but I hate barfing bugs. WASH YOUR HANDS! And be prepared to be sick.

Sigh.

I think I had the same thing, only had the desire to puke once when I went from freezing to burning very quickly. It's pretty mild, though - felt bad one day, horrible the next, and not too shabby again. Had the aches, fever, sore throat, and hacking cough, though. I'd like to believe it was swine flu.

Watch it, folks. Don't go theorizing about what the bug is until it's been confirmed. It could be an early case of the seasonal flu which is bad enough.
My daughter was exposed to the H1N1 this summer when she went to a movie with someone who later was confirmed to have it. She didn't get it and neither did the sickie's family members. I will get her the shots anyway.

I think its a praying mantis.



And you won't care about chills, sniffles or even vomiting while it feeds on your severed head.

Silly, Bob. Only female mantises are cannibalistic and they only feed on the male. So I'm not worried but maybe you should be.

Hee Hee Hee.....Wendy you slay me!

Wendy. If you are not an 18-foot female praying mantis, you are fair game. You AREN'T an 18-foot female praying mantis, are you?

She's an atheist mantis.

Hey Buck. Did you remember to drink your Gatorade?

Richard,

If I were any kind of mantis I'd be a good Presbysterian mantis and say Grace before tearing into Bob's brains.

A strain of H1N1 is making the rounds here and in the outlying villages. One person in our office came down with it - she has some pre-existing health concerns, so it hit her hard. She was medivacked to Anchorage and hospitalized for over a week.

There've been a few confirmed cases in a couple of the schools in the district I work for. But, it doesn't seem to be hitting people too hard who are otherwise healthy.

We have around 400 students in our 14 schools. The district is large, around 31,000 square miles (about the size of South Carolina). So the flu will likely be slow in spreading from school to school.

(about the size of South Carolina)

But smarter, I hope.

>>But smarter, I hope.

I've not matched test scores with SC, but we have some pretty sharp students in our schools.

">>But smarter, I hope.

I've not matched test scores with SC, but we have some pretty sharp students in our schools."



Like the Iraq and such.

All joking aside, this H1N1 bug is not necessarily to be taken lightly. My brother who is 44 yrs old, was misdiagnosed 3 times over the course of 10 days +/- and ended up in the ER with a dangerously low oxygen level, only to be put on a ventilator 24 hrs later. He spent 2 weeks in ICU on the ventilator in a coma, and another 4 weeks recovering in the hospital. 6 FULL WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL!! Most of the time yes, the virus hits like other flus, but it CAN attack your respiratory system and if not treated quickly/properly the result can be death. When the virus is in the lungs, it causes the air sacs to either collapse or fill with fluid and the exchange of oxygen and CO2 cannot occur, because the lungs become sponge like. My brother was lucky in that the hospital staff found treatments that worked, but he could have died. So please be careful if you don't feel well, STAY HOME, use caution and wash your hands, cover your sneeze and coughs and go to the doctor, and insist they check you for the virus.

>>Like the Iraq and such.

???

...you guys were talking about "smarter" and "South Carolina" in the same thread.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...j3iNxZ8Dww



On the subject of H1N1 - I don't think there's anything wrong with speculation. It's early warning. Freaking out is rarely helpful but if someone wants to ask if a bug going around town is bigger or badder than the usual... nothing unreasonable about that.

I'm not positive but my oldest daughter (grade school) was VERY ill this last January. What were common flu symptoms on days 1-3 turned into barely eating or drinking for a total of 14 days. She was running a 101-102 fever, dry heaving every 30 minutes, lethargic and I basically had to feed her teeny, postage-stamp-sized bits of food every 30 min + sips of water just to keep her nourished. One bite every half hour. Our doctor said if that routine failed she would have been hospitalized but that trauma was something to be avoided but the degree of care was almost becoming necessary. I seriously wonder if she didn't have H1N1 during that time just prior to it becoming more common?

It's a myth that it's only as bad as the regular flu. Different people react in different ways and one doesn't necessarily have to be in poor health to get clobbered hard. All flu should be taken seriously. This year we've just got one more that requires it.

Hal, it's a Palin joke.

Thanks Wendy. I don't get it, but at least now I know it's supposed to be funny.

This bug is apparently especially hard on younger kids because we older folk have run across something similar over our long lives. I'd rather not have anything that makes me sick but I especially don't want the kids in my life to get really sick!

WASH YOUR HANDS!

STAY HOME IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE A FEVER!

And don't eat any strange heads.

If you receive email from Department of Health telling you not to eat canned pork because of swine flu; ignore it.



It's just Spam.