Just had paramedics round

Forget about work and just get better. Glad to see you're sounding as lucid as normal at the moment!

 

I'm going to report your post Dave, but only to get the attention of our GC Nurse

 

Would that be nurse Daisees? She's just a few miles up the A19 from me I believe.

EDIT: And if I've got that completely wrong, I'm just going to blame the fever

 

I've done it now, she'll be round with her thermometer

 

Jeez mate! Get well soon dude!

 

This sounds awful, hope this disappears asap. They sound like terrible symptoms.

It amuses me often when I hear a person with a mild cold proclaiming they have the flu. Ive never had the flu, I seem to be genetically immune from flu - so I'm lucky.. however if they are the symptoms that are the potential in flu.. then that's quite scary.. especially when you're fully alert.

 

I've had the flu twice it drops you. Can't move, can't do anything except lie in bed burning up & feeling like you are freezing to death.

 

Hmm, maybe I'll have that flu jab this winter, now I'm nearly elderly.

 

Just was what was going through my mind as I read that. And the term 'flu' is very overused and devalued because people say "I've had a touch of the flu" when all they really have is a mild cold. Influenza is a very dangerous and volatile infection. Once you've ever had real flu, you'd never misuse the term again. A cold is a cold but flu really sucks! Hope you get better really soon, Clueless, else I shall have to hoy down the A19 and give you what for!

 

Only just seen this Clue' , crikey sounds like you've been through it over the last couple of days, hope you recover quickly and get back to normal....

I know we all like to work but get yourself fully fit first, if you push yourself too far you may take a backwards step, take care

A daily dose of GC is bound to aid your recovery too

 

I'm hovering by the Ward door, but Nurse won't let me in yet clueless. Got a nice magazine for ya

 

It has just occurred to me that that so far this week I've been functioning on mostly synthetic chemicals of one sort or another.

Monday I went into work. A combination of Lemsip (lots of chemicals), too many cans of Red Bull copy (who knows what's in them, other than caffeine and taurine and lots of other additives). Then since then paracetamol and ibruprofen.

There is the temptation when you're feeling mostly ok to relax the paracetamol regime, but then wife and I have noticed that as soon as one dose starts to wear off, my temperature starts soaring again and I start getting confused in less coherent so it seems its definitely the tablets that's keeping me right for now. Its a bit of a pain really because ordinarily I never bother with 'pain killers'. I say pain killers in quotes, because that's what I always thought they were. I never would have given them credit for something as powerful as regulating core temperature. That's pure magic.

 

Hope you're a bit better today Clueless! Plenty of rest and fluids. DON'T let yourself get dehydrated too!!

 

Clueless - I think what you need now is soup. And lots of it.

Yeah, well, they have to say that to justify the week they're planning to take off work. it doesn't sound very convincing if you have to throw a week's sickie for a bit of a sniffle.