A swine flu victim who suffered through the disease has described the horrors of her ordeal: "The worst of it came in slowly on Saturday afternoon: an excruciating, horrifying, unimaginably painful sore throat, the likes of which you haven't experienced unless you've had strep as an adult. But, unlike strep, which quickly improves within the first few hours of antibiotics, this sore throat is caused by a virus, and it will last for a week. It will make you ask yourself questions like, 'If I knew I would have this sore throat for the rest of my life, would I choose to go on living?' And the answer will be, 'No.'"
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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Makes me feel better about eating all that ham.
Will my doctor give me some good pain meds for it?
Read it and see! (Yes.)
Okay, I read that, and I *am* getting the vaccine. Jenny McCarthy can kiss my ass.
I'd probably let her kiss my ass, vaccinated or not.
Hmmm. Gym...swine flu...gym...swine flu...
It's a toss up.
Empathy. I once assumed I could just schedule strep antibiotics and be back to "it" ... until I found out there is a mononucleosis no one talks about. A mononucleosis where a drowsy month of daytime TV is replaced with ceaseless Jack-the-Ripper agony.
My sleeve is rolled up.
Wow, that is all very true! Four years ago I had the flu and strep throat simultaneously. Then, this very last August, I come down with a terrible, strep-like sore throat, and then grew progressively more achy and miserable over the next day or two. I thought I might have strep throat and the flu again! Turns out, it was the swine flu.
At what point do you start dreaming about Mother Abigail?
see, when i had swine flu i was two steps away from the front door when the world fell out of my bottom. i would have preferred strep throat.
"My throat hurts", isn't one of the top ten reasons people consider suicide. It's true that pain is a bitch, but isolation is what makes people want to end it all.