Flu

[rattfan]

Yes, I have flu. Or I have something which matches some of the symptoms, which I guess could explain my bleh feelings of the last few days! Lethargy, shivery/achy feelings, fuzzed head (more than usual), sore throat.

So if anyone was planning to visit, note the large X on the front door and stay clear.

I thought it was just Mondayitis to start with so I went to work but only lasted a couple of hours. If you want the experience of feeling totally unwanted, try standing in front of your supervisor and listing your symptoms while co-workers say, "I think I'll go this way," and walk the longest way around you they can. I feel guilty about exposing them to it but hey, if I'd felt like 11am at 7am, I wouldn't have gone in. If that makes any sense... So I took my bugs out of there and went home, which felt like a really long walk this time, through grey, windy weather threatening to rain again. Going back to bed felt really good and I got some sleep. Don't usually do that in the winter - sleep during the day, I mean. It's helped some but the symptoms haven't gone away. It's not really severe. I've had the knock-you-down kind of flu and this isn't it. I wouldn't be able to post with tolerable clarity if it was, though tomorrow, of course, may be a different story!

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Hope it isn't the same flu that just swept through my family (missed me... so far). It had some of them hallucinating and delirious. Oh, real fun!

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

Erm no, no hallucinations so far but dreams last night were kind of interesting. In one I was bumbling around my house in the dark and only figured out I had to be asleep when I manifested an ability to walk through walls...

I'm better but my head aches when I exert myself, as when walking to the clothesline and back again. Also when I read, which is a pain. I'm okay enough to be really bored and not okay enough to do anything interesting!

[chaosmanor.livejournal.com]

I don't have the flu. I did have both a transfusion and a novel rejected yesterday.

If you need cans of soup left at the front door, or some other kind of practical support, let me know.

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for offer of support :-) I should be okay - am debating whether or not to go to work tomorrow :-) Will see how I feel in the morning.

I'd prescribe a large tub of icecream for the novel rejection.

take care

[satyapriya.livejournal.com]

Can send reiki, but not much else from this distance. PseudoPartner down with a head cold he thinks will kill him.
No flu here(good), but thyroid pills have given me: headaches, blurry vision(clearing up now), itches, and also an unmentionable itch. Nice.

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

There is a complaint around known as Man-Flu. Thanks to chaosmanor for the term. This describes a relatively mild dose of influenza or cold which sends certain males to their beds, sure they are about to die.