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[nny]

:/

Woke up this morning and felt like crap. Everything I owned (and several things I didn't) ached, most especially my head and eyeballs, and I was all sneezly and coughly and yuck. You know the way your brain goes OMG I HAS PIGGY SNIFFLES!?

Turns out my school has a kid in quarantine because his mother has the first suspected case in Gloucestershire, after coming back from Mexico recently.

GODDAMMIT, I AVOIDED SCABIES, I AM NOT GETTIN' THIS.

For now I'm not concerned, I'm just gonna go to bed early, but if I get any worse I'm gonna trundle around to the doctor and look pathetic at them. Blech.

Comments

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I'm certainly not alarmist, but given the possibility, yes, if you don't feel better, please go to the doctor. *mwah*

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Your Rodney icon says it all. Here's to hoping it's not true. In the mean time:

- REST! SLEEP!

- I am a big believer in chicken soup with extra garlic and hot pepper, or hot-and-sour soup, or equivalent.

- hot lemon+honey+slices of fresh ginger (in water, of course) is also nice.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the CDC rules here are for you to *call* the doc (and school nurse) first, because they may not want you out breathing on the public.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

You are a pestilence-magnet, bebé. Don't die of piggysniffles.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

IF I DO I WANT IT ON MY COMMEMORATIVE TREE.

NNY, DED OF PIGGYSNIFFLES

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

sorry to piss on your plague-parade but I don't think it's really as bad as the papers are screaming. infectious and nasty but not lethal with the standard of care we have here.

otoh

I don't want you to oink.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know, I've been attempting to quiet the masses at school who're insisting they're all gonna DIIIIIIE OMG. Small boys are such weenies. I just don't want to get sick, thank you. XD

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

*howl of laughter*

My Google Ad for this notification was the definition of the word "bumptious".

[havenstar.livejournal.com]

PIGGY SNIFFLES

~*~PIGGY SNIFFLES~*~

XD XD XD XD

SRY IT'S REALLY DISTRACTING.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

(tm) apiphile. :D

[havenstar.livejournal.com]

a billion brilliance points to her, then! that is my new favourite thing XD

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Mibble! That's a disturbing place to be in. And yes, if symptoms persist, yadda yadda yadda, what they said upthread.

(Tea is a good way of replenishing enough fluids to help flush the nasties out of your system, I've found. Though the Americans also recommend things like Lucozade to restore electrolytes.)

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I'm totally distracted by the adorable of the term piggy sniffles. <3

Feel better, bb. *hugs*

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

*snuggles*

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE PIGGY SNIFFLES>

Not that I think you do. Sometimes a cold is just an annoying cold.

*goes back to snuggling*

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

(((hugs)))

I hope you don't have piggy sniffles, or that if you do, you get over them quickly and easily.

But I have to tell you, "piggy sniffles" is just the best phrase ever. I'm weathering a bit of a scare here (a school 4 blocks from my kids' school was just closed), so thinking of it as "piggy sniffles" is helping immensely.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

According to CNN, if you're still feeling sick within two days, GO TO A DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY. That's when your antibodies might go haywire and start attacking your lungs instead of the virus.

But you're probably, y'know, just sick. :) Take care, eh?

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

UK advice is call, don't go in. At our surgery we just send people home and get people to visit them if they come in with suspected swine flu - this is official advice from the NHS people. It may well be different in the US, but UK people need to call first.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Definitely different in the US. They might start doing housecalls if things get worse, but right now at least as I've last read, they want people to come in.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

I should also apologize for doing the 'US means everybody thing'. I didn't mean to be arrogant--I just honestly forgot what country Villany lives in.

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't apologise - I know most of my online flist are American, and it's easy to forget the other way around too! I'm always like 'go to your doctor!' and then I realise they have to pay :-(
You didn't come across as arrogant at all, honestly. It's just that I'm a UK med student, and we had a suspected case of swine flu in our surgery last week (it didn't turn out to be that, but he'd been to Mexico and was sick) and he was hustled out of the back door with great haste and told not to come back under any circumstances. They have special teams who are doing house calls.

Of course, the advice has probably changed six times since then ;-)

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

♥ Thanks, love. :)

I love the idea of medical personnel doing house calls. That's brilliant. I wish they would do that here.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

OMFG NNY SERIOUSLY WHEN I TEXTED THIS MORNING I DIDN'T MEAN TO CURSE YOU TO *ACTUALLY GET IT*. OMFG. Be good to yourself, and don't sniff any piggies.

*love*

[chkc.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon! Please drink a lot of fluids. Hopefully it's just the people flu and not piggy flu. *keeping fingers crossed*

Here, have a Rodney McKay:

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*flings arms around you*

Okay, so you should request a mcsmooch off me, or something, because I feel bad for getting these adorable drawbles and not giving anything in return!

[chkc.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't feel bad or obligated to write anything. :) I just like to draw because I never know what to say. *hugs*

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

TAKE CARE OF YOU PLZ.

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

DO NOT GO TO THE DOCTOR. They will put on scary masks and send you home, this is NHS policy as of yesterday. Call NHS Direct, they'll send someone round.
We had a suspected case in our surgery and the doctors were all GO AWAY NOW PLZ, AND NOT THROUGH THE WAITING ROOM.

I really do think you don't need to panic too much - it is spreading but most people do seem to recover pretty well from it, and it's very responsive to antivirals. If you did have it, which you most likely don't, I have every confidence that you'll be fine, apart from feeling a bit rotten for a few days.

However. Call NHS Direct now, plz, and let me know what happens. Love you! xxx