Flu...

[Ty Korrigan]

Has anyone had this?

Not 'man flu' or the 24hr chill I have often had most years nor is this a heavy cold. 

 I last had real flu over 25 years ago.

I screwed me up for a couple of weeks then.

I've now been housebound for 6 days, much spent sleeping through fever, aches, cramps, repeat fever, sweated through bedclothes...

Now I'm feeling more lucid but very weak.

Mrs Lee has it too though her symptoms are less.

I tried to change an angry toddlers nappy earlier. 

I lay down after, heart racing, muscles aching and felt I'll never lift a saw again.

Unless I experience a miraculous recovery I can see next week being written off too.

I understand now just how olders might be carried away by flu.

It is quite horrible, very serious and debilitating.

Next year I'll organise a vaccination for my wife and I.

Only upside is that this week of illness coincided with some terrible weather and my climber got a rest and a chance to work on his renovation.

No clients have been lost either which is considerate of them.

   Stuart

 

 

 

[Stubby]

59 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Has anyone had this?

Not 'man flu' or the 24hr chill I have often had most years nor is this a heavy cold. 

 I last had real flu over 25 years ago.

I screwed me up for a couple of weeks then.

I've now been housebound for 6 days, much spent sleeping through fever, aches, cramps, repeat fever, sweated through bedclothes...

Now I'm feeling more lucid but very weak.

Mrs Lee has it too though her symptoms are less.

I tried to change an angry toddlers nappy earlier. 

I lay down after, heart racing, muscles aching and felt I'll never lift a saw again.

Unless I experience a miraculous recovery I can see next week being written off too.

I understand now just how olders might be carried away by flu.

It is quite horrible, very serious and debilitating.

Next year I'll organise a vaccination for my wife and I.

Only upside is that this week of illness coincided with some terrible weather and my climber got a rest and a chance to work on his renovation.

No clients have been lost either which is considerate of them.

   Stuart

 

 

 

From an old git ....No . I don't think I have had flu like that . Had glandular fever that sounds similar . Lost a day or two of my life with that . Of course being an old git I get a flu jab for free each year .

[Ty Korrigan]

35 minutes ago, Stubby said:

From an old git ....No . I don't think I have had flu like that . Had glandular fever that sounds similar . Lost a day or two of my life with that . Of course being an old git I get a flu jab for free each year .

Yes, I had glandular fever at 18.

2 weeks off work with that.

  Stuart

[Mick Dempsey]

Had the flu when I was a kid, never since.

 

Sounds horrific.

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Yes, I had glandular fever at 18.

2 weeks off work with that.

  Stuart

Hi Stuart . Yes not a lot of fun is that . I was about 20 . Had to pass up being best man at my mates wedding . Apparently it take 6 months to incubate once you have contracted it .  I do remember another bloke I worked with having it about 6 months prior .  They mix your blood with sheeps blood to determine if you have it . 

[Rushes]

Is there a chance that you have Lymes? A tick bite in the last few weeks / months that went away. If there is any chance then the Dr. should understand Lyme borreliosis in French

[Woodworks]

Had it just the once Christmas 2010. Didn't miss much work but ruined any holiday. Hopefully never again.

 

Get well soon Stuart. 

[Ty Korrigan]

I managed 2 hours climbing yesterday and 2 behind a grinder today. After each I spent the afternoon on the couch asleep.

This is what I imagine being over 80 to be like...

  Stuart

[woody paul]

On 08/12/2018 at 19:46, Rushes said:

Is there a chance that you have Lymes? A tick bite in the last few weeks / months that went away. If there is any chance then the Dr. should understand Lyme borreliosis in French

Good shout worth getting checked out 

[Thesnarlingbadger]

I had flu when I was a teenager. It had me on my back for 2 weeks straight and I couldn’t eat a thing and could barely drink. My body felt like it was 100 years old and I couldn’t even lift the kettle to make a lemsip type drink.
I still think about that flu 18 years on and it worries me that I could get that I’ll again, back then I was just off school, now with kids and a business I don’t know how I would manage especially is the misses was down with it as well.
I don’t envy you and I wish you a quick recovery.