<p>I spent a week in DC recently and flew home Friday. By Saturday I had sniffles and wondered about allergies. By Tuesday I wanted to stay in bed but had to work. By Wednesday I dragged myself to an MD who diagnosed infections in ears, sinuses and bronchitis plus a fever about 99.5 F.</p>
<p>Thursday and Friday fever was 102.4 and I was one sick p2n. Another antibiotic prescribed by MD Friday. Fever finally broke Saturday, leaving me worn out.</p>
<p>I’m still tired from the stuff and still have chest congestion 10 days later (never a smoker). Pretty sure this could go into pneumonia without much more trouble.</p>
<p>Seems quite a number of others have been similarly afflicted in FL where we live.</p>
<p>Governmentitus, that’s what it is. You have taken the remedy already: throwing money at it. The illness is not too contagious but does run in cycles and in certain cultures that depends on a complaint populus. Some severe cases have been known to cause temporary insanity and irrationality.</p>
<p>immunity from Govermentitus can be in two forms. A person who is in a permanent state of irrationality but has occasional glimpses of the light coming on in their head but immediately discount the lucidity. The other form of immunity is being totality logical thereby being thoroughly insane.</p>
<p>Sister had it last week, with the worst of it, while she was in the hospital helping her daughter deliver her first child! OMG- what a mess for sister.
Cough was awful for many days- especially brutal at night.
She and co-worker said it lasts 12 days …</p>
<p>Could this still be the flu going around? D had it in February, missed a week of school, and wasn’t really better for at least 10 days. Cough lingered another week or so beyond that. It was awful, sickest I’ve seen her in years. When I took her to the dr, she said, “Does anyone else in your house have it yet?” I said, “YET??? Don’t say yet!” Luckily neither DH nor I got it, and DS is away at college and apparently it didn’t hit his dorm.</p>
<p>I hope you feel 100% soon, p2n. Just last month, I was feeling puny for a couple of days and finally went to the doctor when my temp hit 102+. I tested positive for the flu and my chest x-ray showed pneumonia. I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. It took ~2 weeks for me to feel LOTS better. At the end of my illness, we took a 10-day trip to the Caribbean. I highly suggest that as a remedy. Get well soon!</p>
<p>while illnesses are going around in Florida, stupidity is going around in colleges out East, mainly the two my daughters attend. Last night one got her finger slammed in a door, and the other had her legs swept out from underneath her while dancing at her formal; she was on 4-inch heels (stupidity, I say) and probably has a good ankle sprain. They are both headed to their respective acute care centers today. Uggg.</p>
<p>^^^^^ Owww! Well wishes to all who are recuperating!
There is a bug going around my s’s school- several members of their Ult. Frisbee team had it (they still came in 2nd in their tournament!). S missed a day of school this past week (which he really couldnt afford to do, having been gone on the Ult Frisbee trip and having revisited colleges)- but one day this past week he headed to school and just turned around and came home. The cure?? Go to the senior prom!! He felt crummy yesterday too, but that didnt’ stop him from heading to the prom!! I haven’t heard from him yet today (and thank heavens someone ELSE hosted the post prom party this year!). I think the “drink plenty of fluids” mantra takes on a new meaning for illnesses at promtime :)</p>
<p>Feel better p2n! Go soak up some warm FL sun!! Its COOOOLD here.</p>
<p>My dad is at the hospital right now with my mom (both elderly). In Florida. Because she has some kind of respiratory infection and can’t catch her breath.
Hope this is some run-of-the-mill bacterial infection, and not some nasty flu variety.</p>
<p>pn2, I just got over this (I did not have to go to DC to pick up this bug).<br>
Went to the doctor and got the same diagnosis. Went through 2 Z-pacs before I started to feel better. Lost 5 pounds. Hope you are feeling better soon.</p>
<p>Hi sybbie!!!
Glad you are feeling better! Missed you areound these parts! You lost 5# from this bug?? Will you kindly breathe on me a little bit? :D</p>
<p>oh noo mom2three!! Best wishes for a speedy recovery! Hope they give lots of good drugs. Oh, and I hope they give your mom some good drugs too :D</p>
<p>We’ve been sick, too! Sniffles, cough, ear aches - then a really bad couple of days of nausea and stomach flu symptoms. Then no appetite, more sniffles, more head ache, more coughing. When does this darn thing end? No fevers, though.</p>
<p>something like this was definitely going around on my college’s campus about a month ago (and of course I got it the week before 4 midterms). My phlegm-y cough lingered for a good three weeks, couldn’t sleep because I’d wake up coughing/couldn’t get to sleep in the first place. It was awful. I’m not sure if I ever had a fever (by the time I went to the doctor 5 days after feeling my first symptoms, I didn’t have one, but could have those first few days) but I felt absolutely crap for about 10 days and was just sick to death of coughing by week 2. Doc said mine was a virus though, and just gave me cough suppressants and hydrocodone syrup to knock me out at night.</p>
<p>God Lord, this bug sounds horrible. Hope you feel better fast Parent2noles. Sybbie, so happy to hear you’re feeling better. Did your doctor happen to tell you the name of this critter? I’d like to look it up on the net.:)</p>