Swine Flu?

[poliphilo]

What I should have done when my throat started hurting at 5 o'clock in the morning is got up, made a cup of tea and taken a couple of co-codamol. That way I could have temporarily stunned the virus and returned to sleep. As it was I lay there drifting feverishly between sleep and wake until breakfast time.

Ailz has been ill for a week. I started feeling symptoms a couple of days ago. We went to the doctor's this afternoon and she poked in our ears and looked in our throats and prescribed cough drops and saltwater gargles. Basically, there's nothing we can do about this thing except wait for it to go away.

What I really want to know is if we've got swine flu. Could be. The symptoms measure up.

Comments

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Two of the people I know who had those symptoms insisted on getting their blood taken and analyzed, because they had been to Spain recently where there are lots of cases, and the analysis came out as "absolutely not the Mexico-Flu, but just one of the many summer flu viruses which are around every year and are principally seen in periods where hot weather changes nearly daily with rain and draught" said the doctor. I haven't heard about cases like that in Italy yet but that makes sense, as the weather is constantly very hot there.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess there are always plenty of viruses going around. We only notice this particular one- swine flu- because it has done that rare thing and leaped between species.