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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
pisceschick, Blossom, I hope you're feeling both better. Not a big purchase week (although India and 75off have helped a bit  ). And not a bad reading week  |
I still have a dry cough but getting stronger every day. I've gone from sleeping 14 hours to about 10 hours now. I think my body is still trying to heal as when the bug was active I couldn't sleep a wink. I am pushing everyone to get a Flu shot. We had a 12 years old girl die here of the same flu I had.
A simple shot could have saved her life.
Lisa Renee Jones about lost her Daughter In law to the flu. Healthy woman in her 20s nearly died and was on life support. She is doing much better now. This is no jokes folks the flu is bad this year go get that shot! I've yet to hear of someone who got a flu shot that got this nasty bug. I read Texas is being hit harder while here in Tennessee it's more regional than widespread.
I've heard people refer to it as bad cold and some call it a sinus infection. Not many people who never really get the flu know it's the flu when this starts. For me it was a simple tickle in my throat. I think the big warning sign is the fever. If your temp gets over 102 you need to take every precaution you can and this bug hits you hard after that with chills so bad you think you are going to break your teeth! Then before you know you feel lifeless and unable to do much about it and for me the fever lasted over 48 hours. Motrin couldn't even break it only reduced it to 102.5 I call this phase one. Phase two is when you can't breath. you have runny and stuffy nose at the same time. How is this possible? I don't know. This is the phase where it can turn deadly. I remember shoving Sinex up my nose so I could just breath because my throat and my neck glands was so swollen I had a hole the size of a silver dollar to breath through. I lost my voice for four days and then it Phase Three happens where you feel like you need to buy stock in the Kleenex company. I went through 10 boxes of tissues. Phase Four is a horrible hacking that seems to turn into a dry cough a week later and I still have this.
I can tell you after the fever hit and I puked so hard I broke blood vessels in my face I had no appetite whatsoever after that for a week. I have never experience this. I lived on Sprite for a week and water tasted soo nasty and I love water even Jello for me was too rich to eat. It would be a week before I felt even remotely a little bit hungry and I started on clear liquids and moved to soups. I am now back to eating normal without having to run to the bathroom thirty minutes later. Although this sickness has tore up my stomach and my GERD seems to be worse now.
I really do believe this bug could have killed me. I have never been so sick in my life! I never want to go through that again!