Went Home Sick Today...
Okay... Just to clear things up before people start getting hysterical... I do not have Swine Flu. I don't have the symptoms for Swine Flu. But I do have the symptoms for the common cold.
I woke up again this morning, despite my best efforts sweating things out yesterday, with a very sore throat. The kind you just know will be all sorts of fun in a few days, when you start hacking up phlegm. (Yay!) If this was Swine Flu, I wouldn't have a sore throat. I also have a few other symptoms that indicate this is just a cold:
- Stuffy nose
- Mild exhaustion
- Mucus-producing cough
- A gradual increase in symptoms (If it were flu, it would be a sudden onset.)
I went to work, and made it through most of the day. But I couldn't stop sneezing and coughing for a while there... I was so disruptive that one of my co-workers came over and offered me drugs from her stash. So I decided to just bag it up and go home. I brought my work laptop home with me with the intention of working on a presentation. But I think I might actually go and nap now. A nap sounds really good.
Comments
Maybe Canada knows something we don't? =)
Regardless, I hope you are feeling better very soon!
:-P
feel better
It is funny though, I have seen contradictory "symptom" lists on the internet from various legitimate sources. One says "stuffy nose and sore throat are NOT likely to be symptoms"... And another that says they ARE.
The only thing they all agree on is that the common cold does not have a fever and the swine flu does.
So far, no fever.
I hope you feel better soon!!