But Karma normal flu is like that too....I've only had that twice in my life but it was really bad and I was off my feet my 10 days (and lost nearly 2 stone)....when people say they have flu but are struggling on, they haven't...they have colds....if you have any flu properly it knocks you off your feet

As for hair in the salas...as long as its not a curly one....

Ditto..... but even if I buy packaged  fruit and veg I wash it....

*leaves hair straightners*

I had the swine flu, couldn't get out of bed for nearly two weeks, never felt so ill in my life, I've had the flu but this was completely different,  took me a month to get over it!

Oh I agree!   I used to get the right hooby hump about it...  cos the knock on effect would be I would get it.. then my kids would get it... so I would be off work not only whilst I was sick.. but whilst the kids were too.... then I would get the bad attendance record.

Yeah I know Sal, but trust me Swine flu was completely different. I had no regular flu symptoms present, no sore throat, blocked nose, headache, nothing like that at all. I got to work at 8.45 and by 9.30 I was sweating profusely (I like that word ), my eyes were heavy, I'd gone dead pale (so colleagues said)...it's just weird to explain. I didn't think it was swine flu at all, cos I thought that would be like normal flu kinda thing. I went to the doc 2 weeks later to get clearance to go back to work and when she examined me she could tell (somehow) that I'd had it (summink in the throat?), but she did say that there was misdiagnosis of it going on by the bucketload, so I doubt it was ever the huge epidemic it was made out to be.

Too me about the same Menty, I was just knackered all the time even after I'd been given the all clear.

I have to say... I have only had proper flu twice... and was in bed for a fortnight both times... delirious for days, and felt like I was dying....

I've had flu like illnesses loads of times, but they tend to only have the full flu-ey effects for a couple of days.

I was shit scared of swine flu...  

My mate was exactly the same Karma - and she also had this dreadful nausea long after the flu symptons had gone.

Did your kids get it Menty?    Or yours Karma?

I only ask cos of the woman I knew who had it, who was hospitalised with it... didn't transmit it to her family.

Yet regular flu... spreads like wild fire within in the family...

I wonder why that is...

Mine didn't they were on holiday with their Nan at the time and I was on my own.  Dr came in every couple of days to check on me coz I wouldn't go to the hospital. He wouldn't come into the house unless he was wearing a plastic apron, mask and surgical gloves 

Loads of people were misdiagnosed as well, it was a case of do you have the flu!, it must be swine flu!

oh my!

my neighbours would have had a field day with that!

Lucky the kids were away

my g/f wanted a week off, cos she felt like a week off, she had a bit of sniffle, she got on the net to the nhs bird flu site, got a prescription, i picked it up and she had 7 days off...

tsk

Not really.  I had flu-flu a couple of years ago and like someone else pointed out - it completely immobilised me.  Even rolling about in bed was almost beyond the energy available.  Other person in house never got it.

ooh.. ok.

Maybe its just my kids that get too up close & personal then

No, my son moved into my mums for 2 weeks and I was stocked up with surgical masks, gloves, plastic aprons, plastic shoe thingies that go over your shoes (that I'd nicked from hospital a couple of months before just in case of emergencies ). My mum would post supplies through the door or leave a carrier bag on the doorstep, knock the door and run away Couldn't risk my boy getting it cos he can't handle colds or anything like that very well since getting pneumonia when he was younger. Everything got completely sterilised, bleached and cleaned before he was allowed back in though, I think I went a little too O.T.T. cos I was still wearing the masks and gloves in the house 3 weeks later

I have a bad cold at the moment   just thought it was appropriate to say. Spreads like wildfire

Oh Karma! I am laughing.. but in a "poor Karma" kinda way!

  Yeah...  I would have been terrified about passing it onto the kids too...  


*sniggers*  and refrains from making any MJ related quip..

there, there, there...    hot water & whiskey 

what evil person spread their germs to you then Evelyn...  tell us all about it...

Some evil soul who kissed me.  Now its passed onto my family, i kissed them all 

I'm the same when it comes to uncovered pastries and foods in shops. My biggest annoyance is people who do massive sneezes in public and don't bother covering their nose and mouth. I try and get away quickly when anyone does it near me, can't bear it.