did you get this years flu yet?

I chose to stay healthy instead but, then again, I'm not "trendy" anyway.

I like my quotation marks..   Anyways,

http://www.cbsnews.com/83...idemic-across-the-u.s/

I've had flu shots the past two years. This year I'm probably going to abstain. The flu is supposed to be endemic in New York and God knows there are enough a-holes who cough and sneeze all over the subway to get it quite easily. Some places are running out of flu shots because Cuomo declared a state of emergency (puh-leeze) and all the neurotics think they're going to die. 

Sometimes I feel like I have a strong immune system, other times not so much. I always seem to have a scratchy throat during the winter but that's dry air related. I do get a couple of colds a year though. However, there's been times when everyone around me has had the kind of raging flu where it hurts to touch the hair on your head, and all I've gotten is a few twinges and aches in the knees and maybe a night of nausea. Last week I had a day of feeling tired and sick, went to bed at 9pm, had 12 hours of the most blissfully delirious sleep possible (lots of waking up and realizing I could go back for another few hours....bliss) and then felt fine the next morning. I thought "was that my dose of the flu? Did I beat it?" Hope so. 

Don't think I've had the flu properly for a good 10-15 years or so. I remember the last time. Such agony, I could barely move. Every square inch hurt. My joints ached, my skin was sore. What I really hate the most are the weirdly abstract dreams you have when you're sick. The last time I had the flu, I kept dreaming that I was in a large room. From the ceiling hung hundreds of sharp utensils on string, at about head height. To get out of the room I had to wade through these hanging utensils and they were cutting into me. I think each time I hurt in my dream it correlated with an actual pain from my flu. Kept waking up, thinking "man that sucked," going back to sleep and dreaming exactly the same thing. Another time I was delirious, I became obsessed with some mythical damp spot behind the baseboard. I could not stop picturing it in my mind. Totally baffling.  

Nope I had a shot in September, I got Norovirus over Christmas though and as far as I'm concerned you can blow that one out your ass.  In fact, you won't have any other choice but doing that for a good 48 hours if you do get it.  No shots available for that I'm afraid.
 
Here's the gory lowdown on the charming affectation that's currently sweeping the nation.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus
 
I'm sure it was our pre-Christmas trip to the theatre was my exposure point, yet there was 3 of us in our small flat over Christmas and I managed not to spread it any further, even in the state of delirium I was in with it I could still keep myself clean.  It makes you wonder at the hygiene habits of the humanity that surrounds us because good hygiene is the single most effective method of preventing it spreading.
 
All of a sudden I feel sick again.  Them dirty buggers. 
 
Now go wash your hands after reading this post. 
 

i get a flu shot every season.

i have done this, for 20 years now.

can't remember the last time i actually got the flu.

bad head colds, yes, other viruses, yes, but not the flu.



i get the flu shot in october.

i don't know why you would want to wait any later than that.


3 flu viruses were included in the shot.

the best they can do, is track and monitor and try to create a flu shot that covers the worse offenders, they can't get them all.

and flu viruses are pretty varied.

Guitarhacker

For those that do get it.... I hear it's pretty bad..... the news paper here said that 2 have died and lots more are in bad shape.

That's actually normal for any flu outbreak. The media is a disgrace, every year they publish scare stories about how this new outbreak is the deadliest for years, how millions of people could be affected, how hundreds are dying and how it could turn into a national crisis. It never happens. NEVER. The number of people killed is always about the same, and the people who die are the same people who are at risk from the most mundane flu outbreak - the old, the sick, the weak. Normal healthy people aren't dying of flu in America or Europe. 

did you get this years flu yet?

No thank you.


Mike

Mooch4056


I ate the Norton anti virus disk in  2006 and have not been sick since.

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Rumor has it that you've been floppy for 6 years though. 

At least it is not the Zombie Apocalypse...

Because of all the conditions I have I've taken flu shots for the past 5 years..and never got a flu...

trimph1


At least it is not the Zombie Apocalypse... 

You sure about that?

I'm over it, me thinks..  I mean, "just remnants of a slightly ill feeling," are all that's left.  It was like a really mild illness, but it stuck for near ten days.

I'm definitely not bothering with a flu shot now..  But boy, I don't want to do that one again..