Because I am still All The Sick

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Poll #17162 The Worst

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What is Ther Worst Viral Thing? (Based on personal loathing, not actual/potential severity)

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Head cold, the runny kind
5 (6.7%)

Sinus cold, the stuffy kind
9 (12.0%)

Tonsils/strep
6 (8.0%)

Chest cold
6 (8.0%)

Stomach bug
27 (36.0%)

Influenza (get your flu shot, everyone!)
22 (29.3%)

ETA: "stomach bug" includes viruses causing *both* kinds of digestive distress. Possibly I ought to have said "digestive system" rather than "stomach", but I am the sort of person who would rather clean up after Norovirus for a week than discuss the topic for ten minutes, sorry.

Comments

[recessional]

So much sympathy on the travelling while having influenza; my first bout with it three days in I had to fly from northern BC to Vancouver Island. Originally I was supposed to fly to Vancouver Airport and then take the bus-and-ferry back over to the Island, but my mother went "NOPE" and got me on one of the little airport-to-inner-harbour float-planes.

It was absolutely fucking awful. I even had to use my airsickness bag on the descent into Vancouver. And yet, the guy in the seat next to me didn't stop trying to flirt until I actually threw up. I mean it didn't actually make anything worse because I literally just didn't pay any attention to him, but I remember sitting there going "I look like death, I have cold sweat at my temples, I've been curled up in a miserable ball with my headphones in my ears the whole flight, I'm not even looking at you now, and I'm holding the airsickness bag: WHAT PART OF THIS IS ALLURING?"

Then I likewise crawled into a cab and into my apartment, tried to eat some ramen, realized the only thing I wanted was the broth, drank the whole thing and passed out in bed. My roommate was O.O

Anyway. /share

[lexin]

Oh, that sounds horrible. And to be flirted with on top of your troubles - what makes men do that kind of thing?

[recessional]

I could not figure it out. Like it didn't even bother me because I was too miserable to care, but it BAFFLED me. I remember sitting there with two parallel thought-streams: 1. Am I going to actually throw up? and 2. What in the name of GOD is actually attracting you to the idea of even talking to me right now? Like do you just literally feel so entitled to female attention that you're not even looking at me, you just went "ah, a female person, I will talk at her and she will pay attention"? I AM SO CONFUSED.