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WHS. Last time I had proper flu I spent 48 hrs in bed thinking about whether my will was up to date or not.
When I was a heavy smoker I - like most heavy smokers - was kept safe from colds and 'flu. But about 20 years ago when I was living on my own I did get real 'flu and I can see why people die from it.
I spent a day and a night in bed sweating and shivering and never properly waking up. I got up the next day feeling really, really, really bad and very hungry and very thirsty. I all but crawled downstairs to find the milk had gone off in the 'fridge.
Eventually I worked out four days had gone by.
All I managed that day was to eat some muesli in warm water, then crawled back into my (still damp from the sweating) bed.
My mother and an ex-girlfriend both subsequently told me off for not 'phoning for help. But it was all over by the time I could use the telephone.
But there is something I have done ever since then: when a direct report or a colleague is not in work by 10:30 I am on the 'phone to the agent or HR to get someone to telephone them at home. Because despite being a permie, no bugger thought to telephone me to see if I was dead or alive. I just got a bollocking for phoning in sick four days late. That hurt. Lots.
Flu is debilitating so it an’t flu. If you suffer through a common cold it could be that you have problems with your sinuses and these become infected when you have a cold. This used to happen to me but I had the sinuses widened and now I just get normal colds be it that I haven’t had one for five years.
"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell
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