The Flu

[Quagmire]

Who all has been hit by it?

We've all gotten it in my house. I took Monday off, thought I could make it today and Monday was pretty good, but probably over did it. Maybe faculty-student dodge ball game, then the gym and then sauna weren't the best ideas....I didnt push myself too hard, but once I was driving home from the gym it hit hard

My son has been sick since Sunday, it's hit his school hard. Some people being out 3-5 days. He will be out again tomorrow.

I've had a lot of students out, we had about 15% of teachers out Monday. Ive heard of one school doing NTI because so many were out

It's been rough to say the least. IT hasnt been awful for me, but my son has had body aches. Wife is starting to show symptoms now....ugh

I really want to go tomorrow as it would be easier to go tomorrow and take Thursday off, but we'll see how I feel in the morning

 

[Jawneh]

Umm.... I might've had one sometime back in November or early December, but nothing since. It does help that most folks in the house currently don't go anywhere. And those who do are around only so many other people.

 

[Quagmire]

Umm.... I might've had one sometime back in November or early December, but nothing since. It does help that most folks in the house currently don't go anywhere. And those who do are around only so many other people.

Take it no children in the house? That certainly helps

 

[Jawneh]

Take it no children in the house? That certainly helps

Both are homeschooled. Though the older one is now at work, but the crew his part of is smaller.

Weeeellllll, my nephew is over here basically every weekend. He's in a larger public school so if we were going to get sick it would most likely be through him. Now that I think about that, I guess we've just been lucky this season so far.

 

[Kat]

Kind of a tangent, but when you say "the flu", do you mean influenza or just some kind of respiratory illness? I haven't had the actual flu since I was a kid, but there's plenty of other respiratory stuff that I regularly pick up. Luckily I've avoided it this winter so far, even though our flu rates here are crazy high.

Also please don't go to work or anywhere else around people if you're sick, even if you feel like you can handle it. Especially if it's really the flu, because that kills quite a few people every year.

 

[Benzine]

I've been sick more since having a child than the rest of my life combined. I could include breaking my leg and recovering from that as a teen and I still think it'd be true.

 

[Quagmire]

Kind of a tangent, but when you say "the flu", do you mean influenza or just some kind of respiratory illness? I haven't had the actual flu since I was a kid, but there's plenty of other respiratory stuff that I regularly pick up. Luckily I've avoided it this winter so far, even though our flu rates here are crazy high.

Also please don't go to work or anywhere else around people if you're sick, even if you feel like you can handle it. Especially if it's really the flu, because that kills quite a few people every year.

Actual flu, my son and a lot of people around here have tested positive for Flu A

He has also picked up strep....but I think we caught it early?

 

[Kat]

Actual flu, my son and a lot of people around here have tested positive for Flu A

He has also picked up strep....but I think we caught it early?

Yikes, poor kid! I'd rather have the flu multiple times than strep.

I hope you all feel better soon.

 

[Quagmire]

Yikes, poor kid! I'd rather have the flu multiple times than strep.

I hope you all feel better soon.

This strep seems pretty mild/we caught it quick

My coworker across the hall, her son has it, that is the only known case that maybe it jumped from him to her to me

 

[shortkut]

Yikes, poor kid! I'd rather have the flu multiple times than strep.

I hope you all feel better soon.

I’d rather have strep every month for a year than the flu once a year

 

[Crazy Jamie]

Whatever it was, it seemed to rip through every family here around Christmas and into the New Year. My in laws came over from Holland and were clearly pretty ill despite trying to carry on as normal. To no one's surprise, we all got symptoms in the days after they left, and my sister in law and her family (who came over too but live in a different city to my parents in law) all got it too. It completely floored me for a couple of days, but I did get back to normal pretty quickly after that.