<p>Anyone know how long you’ll be sick for with it?</p>
<p>I’m planing on calling my oncampus clinic (just my luck i should get sick over the weekend and no one is in) and asking them on what i should do…</p>
<p>I have all the symptoms except the stomach ones (which i hope i do not get)…</p>
<p>I’m isolateing myself in my room, and asking meals be brought to me… (even though it was only bagels and orange juice, but better then nothing eh?) and folowing all the other ‘rules’ my school has imposed if someone should get the symptoms…</p>
<p>To put it bluntly, its just like the normal flu…</p>
<p>I’m just glad i wasn’t swamped with school work over the weekend…</p>
<p>I kicked someone out of my meeting when he started to cough. I then wiped down everything in my office. I could definitely relate. I am just not sure if I would have used the F word, and I am from Jersey too. Would have loved to see the woman’s face.</p>
<p>D’s in an oncampus apartment in Seattle. She shares a room with another girl, and the third roommate lives in a separate bedroom. Two weeks ago the third roommate came down with Swine flu. It was awful. I almost suggested D get a hotel room for a few nights, but I assumed she’d already been exposed and it was too late. How could you avoid it with a shared kitchen and bathroom and such small quarters? But so far, she’s been lucky. Neither she nor roommate number two, who happens to be suffering from a year long bout of lime disease and whose immune system is very fragile, have gotten the flu. So barrons, you’ll probably be just fine. </p>
<p>I’ve heard Seattle is just rife with the flu, though, and we are heading there tomorrow night.</p>
<p>sounds ok to me, minus the f word.
If you go out in public, you risk picking up germs…especially from idiots who don’t take precautions. Be glad she said something…it’s the quiet ones you gotta watch out for!</p>
<p>You know if you are so worried about getting the flu, maybe YOU should be the one wearing the mask. I have never ever used the f-word at someone else.</p>
<p>I’m going to email my professors and tell them that i’m sick and ask if i can get any assignments i missed…</p>
<p>I’m definently not going tommorow and/or tuesday, i might skip wensday as well, as a precaution… if i’m better by then that is… I really don’t want anyone else to get this, its miserable :(</p>
<p>its a good thing midterms are already over :)</p>
<p>Take care of yourself! Sleep, sleep, sleep! I was a swine doubter til my D at college got it. Not fun. She never get sick and it laid her flat for days. Be careful not to over do when you first start to feel a little better, it’s the secondary stuff that’s really brutal. Good luck.</p>
<p>I live in the Midwest, not a really large city, and using the F word would be a HUGE escalation. Not sure what it’s like in New Jersey.</p>
<p>I was in the checkout lane in front of a young man at Walgreens the other day. He had a nasty cough; frankly, a bad cough worries me most of all when I’m out in public as it seems H1N1 is often associated with a bad cough. (Also I feel all those germs coming my way.) I was halfway through paying, so I just tried to not breathe too much as he coughed behind me. As I exited the store I looked back at him. He looked to be about 20 years old and looked awful. Mostly I just felt so sorry for him.</p>
<p>Right now I am trying to avoid being in very crowded situations when possible.</p>
<p>You were harsh, but if she tried to approach you after you specifically told her not to get near you (and saying it was “good” to get the flu–what??), maybe that escalation was needed to show her you were serious. At least she hadn’t hauled her kid along with her, like the guy I was in front of in the grocery store who was talking loudly about how his daughter (who was beside him coughing up a lung) had a 100+ degree fever. GREAT.</p>
<p>10 feet. this is the distance the h1n1 influenza virus spreads in the air.
Wearing a mask won’t stop the spread of the disease. Masks don’t work.<br>
If the person ahead of you in line had a 103 deg fever from H1N1 - you would have more cause for concern. Of course the woman could be contagious but that is not a given.
People born before 1950 appear to have immunity to the current H1N1 - this is very good news for our elderly population however, I would not have an infected person around a frail 90 year old. I know quite a few adults whose children have had the run of it and have not gotten sick. </p>
<p>About the “F” word - hearing that in the grocery store here does not turn heads. :(</p>
My DD has been sick with the flu and her highest temp was a little over 102 (38.9), when DS got it his fever was over 103 (39.5). It is the aches and chills you get with it that are so flu like you can’t really mistake it for anything else. Cough is awful, I listened to their lungs daily and could not believe that all the hacking I am hearing was coming from the throat only Did not get them to a doctor since they are not testing and even if tested, that rapid test for Influenza is 40% false negative (outrageous, isn’t it? why even use the freaking test???) My friends three kids got sick on the same day and she took them to a clinic where they were swabbed. One tested positive, two tested negative. The doc said to just ignore the results and treat all three of them like a case of flu since he was confident they all had it. </p>
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<p>Amen to that. The best prevention is the one the comes from an individual that is concerned. So yes , I think OP overreacted.</p>
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<p>I have been told otherwise and I am required to wear a mask when caring for infuenza patients (BTW, despite the huge hype our hospital hardly had any hospitalized cases last weekend which I guess is a good news). H1N1 is airborn so theoretically isolated patients should be in negative pressure rooms and one should wear a respirator mask (N95). HOWEVER, when wearing a mask people tend to ignore other safety precautions like social distancing and hand washing. </p>
<p>I would never advise anyone to try to catch the flu, however I am appaled when people treat it like the next plaque. Hey, today there was yet another bomb attack in Baghdad that killed more than 150. Guess if anyone there is concerned about the flu?</p>
<p>justamom…oh my…I’m from PA near Philly. What grocery store do YOU go to? I"d like to avoid that one. Hey, honestly, I rarely go to grocery stores, other than popping in a Wegmans once in a while. Trader Joes is my favorite, Whole Foods is second, so maybe those who don’t ingest all those chemicals and “frankenfoods” are a little more laid back (just kidding, but the F word would turn lots of heads where I shop).
So what can you do to stop the spread if it spreads through the air? Seems handwashing wouldn’t make a difference there.
So…watch DVDs, avoid crowded places, order your food online, basically become a hermit. I think we might be entering panic mode in another week or two…maybe even closing public places. But PLEASE don’t cancel that World Series. Go PHILS!!!</p>
<p>I’m not “worried” about catching the flu. But if I see somebody walking around with a gun I might take certain precautions. Now there might be 10 others with legal concealed guns but if I see it I have to deal with it. In north Jersey the F word is used like salt–you sprinkle a little in everything. Being in Seattle I now save it for special effect. It seemed to work very well.</p>
<p>H1N1 spreads both through the air as well as when you touch a contaminated surface and proceed to touch your mouth or nose. So handwashing and avoiding contact with your face will protect you from contact exposure. But you’re right, if you are standing near an infected person who sneezes, you’re definitely at risk.</p>
<p>barrons, my daughter and I are recovering from the swine flu…we will never really know where we got it , but my husband, daughter and I were on vacation the previous week and flew home sitting directly behind someone who was obviously very sick…my husband and I looked at each other and asked why such a person would be flying in his condition…we are blaming him, though it is going around my daughter’s school.</p>
<p>When I went to the dr. I thought they might make me go into another entrance to keep me away from other people in the waiting room, but they didn’t. We have stayed away from everyone , other than that.</p>
<p>toneranger - NW of Philly, bordering on redneck country. It gets a little scary - haha. I just keep looking straight ahead - lol.</p>
<p>Kelowna - about the masks. I was referring to the general public. No one is recommending the general public walk around with a mask. In a health care setting, that is different.</p>
<p>Honestly, right now I would be more worried entering an elementary school than standing in line at the grocery store.</p>
Did not get them to a doctor since they are not testing and even if tested, that rapid test for Influenza is 40% false negative (outrageous, isn’t it? why even use the freaking test???) My friends three kids got sick on the same day and she took them to a clinic where they were swabbed. One tested positive, two tested negative. The doc said to just ignore the results and treat all three of them like a case of flu since he was confident they all had it. </p>