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Dec. 16th, 2014 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettflu.
in spite of the flu jab.
everything is terrible the internet is sending me hot + sour soup.
I have spent most of today horizontal.
in spite of the flu jab.
everything is terrible the internet is sending me hot + sour soup.
I have spent most of today horizontal.
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Date: 2014-12-16 08:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-12-16 08:36 pm (UTC)(Running a fever, headache, sore throat, everything bloody hurts - muscles as well as joints, as of this morning. And exhausted.)
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Date: 2014-12-16 08:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-17 11:46 am (UTC)Of course, an internationally-connected university is one of the best places to catch a strain of flu that is common in the US but not yet common in England... but also, most influenza-like-illness, especially at this time of year which is still well before peak flu season, is not caused by influenza. And then, of course the vaccine doesn't help.
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Date: 2014-12-17 02:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-17 06:50 pm (UTC)For geekery follow the weekly reports at...oops, let me post this and then find url, lest this browser lose all I've typed...
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Date: 2014-12-17 06:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-17 08:53 pm (UTC)I find it curious that the strains don't match up worldwide. but that's probably my own lack of knowledge showing.
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Date: 2014-12-17 11:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-16 09:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-16 09:22 pm (UTC)(of course, flu vaccine has the bonus way of not working of "you catch a rare flu strain that isn't in this year's vaccine"...)
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Date: 2014-12-17 12:04 am (UTC)On-the-Jab Learning
Date: 2014-12-16 11:08 pm (UTC)...Which makes your having flu, despite the vaccination, unsurprising: they don't get all the circulating strains, and the flu you've got is probably anything *but* a rare strain.
It is not, however, an uninteresting one: the working definition of a flu pandemic isn't '1918 and the Spanish Flu Catastrophe', it's the more prosaic 'This strain has displaced the usual circulating population, and it is now the predominant flu infection'.
So I might be well-advised to listen up for more reports of ineffective vaccinations: as I now know that I have mild asthma, I am not as casual about the flu as I have been in previous years.
Re: On-the-Jab Learning
Date: 2014-12-17 05:00 am (UTC)Which certain of my relatives will probably hear as, "Flu vaccines don't work, see I told you all along!" But that is sort of a separate issue.
Ugh. Flu, we hatessss it, preciousss.
Re: On-the-Jab Learning
Date: 2014-12-17 08:03 am (UTC)and it was just like ... what?! How?!?!
* Someone who has known this person for 10+ years has confirmed that this person does in fact have a very sharp grasp on how the world works and is in fact just that big a troll, rather than this coming from a place of fundamentally misunderstanding the science.
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Date: 2014-12-17 02:52 am (UTC)Running to say things elsewhere yes
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Date: 2014-12-17 03:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-17 05:06 am (UTC)*sending good thoughts and tea*
Also my only semi-mildly-amusing flu story.
So sometime in, I dunno, middle school? I had flu and it was horrible and then I was in that wobbly not-ready-to-resume-activity-yet-but-bored-out-of-my-fucking-mind period. I somehow convinced my mom that I was totes okay to ride the Metro with her to the Air and Space museum and go to an exhibit, which I don't know how she agreed to because she is a nurse and that shit takes energy. I think she was like, "Oh yay you're feeling better and also I'm sick of being stuck at home too!"
Basically, we walked from the Smithsonian stop to the Air and Space Museum, I got inside, turned "sort of yellow-gray" and kind of collapsed against one of the exhibits in the main foyer. My mom found a guard, and then I got to go on an adventure. In Days of Yore, each of the Smithsonian museums had their own health rooms. I actually went *right* before the Air and Space Museum closed theirs (so there would just be one health room that was central to all the museums or something).
Anyway I was pretty out of it but I got wheeled through the bowels of the Air and Space museum by a nice security guard, and then a nice nurse gave me fluids, took my temperature, made me lay down, and called us a cab to go back home.
Maybe you too can see the inside of a museum too if you plan it right?
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