Swine Flu - When will you become worried?

[boman]

Rumor has it, that the same fulla who invented Y2K, also invented swine flu. Musta been getting a bit short of cash ae? Probably owns shares in Tamiflu or summin.

[Maha]

This thread is not a pisstake is it?

I thought swine flu was quite serious.

And a few KBs have had it ...

Its serious if you are an obese asthmatic with heart problems.
Swine flu has been here before....1976.

[Tink]

Bring it on, I say!
The more news about swine flu, the less there is about the 'recession'. The less news abiout the recession, the better. People forget we're having one and go back to spending a little more...gotta be good for business...and my pocket could do with some relief right now.

Good Call...

Swine what.. ? Its another scare .. 1. War 2. Medical 3. Some crazy politian....

4. Fact really!!!!

I love the positivity of this thread... stay positive people!

[Grahameeboy]

Yeah hear what you are saying
But a lot of us get the flu , and most live through it.
If a person gets the piggy flu , is all curtains??

Bet a lot of smokers are worried about getting Swine Flu......strange world

[Little Miss Trouble]

You are kidding right? Did he test you?

Oh well, if we do indeed have swine flu then it is not that terrible, I have some secondary infection that is nailing me flat at the moment, but apart from that I coped

She didn't test me, said theres not much point - I'll be well again before the results would be back. I did get a bloody good telling off for not going in sooner though

[riffer]

The good shit ay? (shooting Novorapid right now)
Did you get the 'standard flu' jab earlier in the year?

Yeah - don't you just love the irony in that...

[Mom]

She didn't test me, said theres not much point - I'll be well again before the results would be back. I did get a bloody good telling off for not going in sooner though

Ha! What a friggen joke that is, I cant even get to see a doctor for 2 days...LOL

[Naki Rat]

Got laid out big time by a flu that was probably the piggy variety a couple of weeks back. I spent the first 72 hours in bed taking nonstop Panadeine to kill the headache and joint pains, hot/cold and weak as a kitten.

I am due for sinus surgery in a couple of weeks so guess where the secondary infection turned up? Bugger!
A doctor's visit got me antibiotics for the secondary but even though I was 1 of 5 people waiting in the designated 'flu waiting area' no testing was done to confirm/deny Swine. Two weeks on now and my energy levels are just about back to normal.

Mrs Rat's employer and her hubby came back from QLD with it and every staff member there has had it and been decked for 1 - 2 weeks as a result.

Don't recommend this one if you can avoid it but unless you health is otherwise seriously compromised it's just going to lay you out for a while. It's just flu not bloody Ebola!

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

My 4yr old got sick with flu and because of the contacts I had at work ment they treated him for swine flu. He was crook as for 48hrs and I was fooking scared shitless...............I watched him breath in and out as he slept.

Didn't give it much thought before this, cant say I'm worried about myself I'm fit and healthy (I think) but when your kids get crook!!!!!!!!!!

[Brett]

This thread is not a pisstake is it?

I thought swine flu was quite serious.

And a few KBs have had it ...

Medical professionals have moved from the quarantine/control stage now onto managing and slowing its spread. It is readily accepted that it has now well and truly established itself here.

[Gremlin]

Yep... had to be worried already. Client got a couple of cases, which meant we limited contact as much as possible, masks etc.

In the contract services industry, you're a great source of spreading anything...

[Swoop]

My doctor thinks I have it...

There is nothing better than a professional who spends 5 years at university, to charge loads of $$$'s for providing nothing more than a guess. Weather forecasters also fall into this category!
Get well soon Miss.L!

[Little Miss Trouble]

There is nothing better than a professional who spends 5 years at university, to charge loads of $$$'s for providing nothing more than a guess.

Haha Thats the exact attitiude that I had which is exactly why I left it so long before going (thinking I'd get over it myself) and ended up with a bloody chest infection to go with it

[Swoop]

Haha Thats the exact attitiude that I had which is exactly why I left it so long before going (thinking I'd get over it myself)

Yes. The same thing last year. I hadn't been to a quack for 6-7yrs(?) until then. Came out of the quack's office after getting forms for a list of tests to be done and spent the next 1/2 day getting stabbed, prodded and siphoned.
I was fucking glad the quack didn't ride a Honda! (ass was beginning to pucker...)

[Lissa]

I am not worried for myself just for my children, I suppose reading about otherwise healthy six year old dieing in England doesnt help.

My eight year old had the flu last week, I just kept an eye on her, basically making sure her symptoms didn't develop into vomiting and breathing problems, other than being vigilant about hand washing and disposing of tissues correctly there isnt much more I can do.

My dad had to go to Wellington Hospital this week for a scan, hes a bit paranoid and took handwashing lotion with him, apparently there were people wearing masks there.