Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Death From Above

As I'm sure many of you are aware, swine flu season is right around the corner. I read an article today that said flu rates are already reaching average seasonal peak levels, but about two months ahead of when they should be peaking. That's not a good sign. Eight people died in Utah of the swine flu since September 1st... also not amongst the most encouraging news.

I have to bring to light the fact that most of the dying people are old, and that's what old people do, they die. However, at least one of those deaths was in my approximate age demographic... and that's what has me worried. I generally consider myself of reasonable health, but I think I'm starting to get a little paranoid about getting zing-zong-zanged by the swine flu.

Recently one of my co-workers was feeling sick. Being the caring, loving, non-self-interest-serving soul that I am, I decided to look the symptoms of swine flu up for her. One website listed:

* unusual tiredness
* headache
* runny nose
* sore throat
* shortness of breath or cough
* loss of appetite
* aching muscles
* diarrhea or vomiting

That sounds about right.

My problem... If you change diarrhea to explosive diarrhea, then I experience at least 5 of those on a daily basis. That leaves only 3 additional symptoms to diagnose myself. And since my Doctor of choice since 2003 has been the Internet, I really need to keep an eye on these things...

I've managed to avoid the chicken pox (so far...) And compared to the chicken pox, this virus is a coward. I have no alternative but to believe I'll dodge this bullet for now... But I'll keep you posted. Hopefully I won't have to eat some crow later this year.

3 comments:

The Higbee's said...

haha! So did you or are you getting the h1n1 shot or mist?? And maybe I'm retarded but I don't get the title to your post. I'm guessing bacon=swine but arm and salty?

Harvey Ralph said...

Ha... No I didn't get the shot... did you guys? Although my titles usually don't make sense, there was a story behind salty bacon arm... but with no explanation, it was a little too far out there, so I changed it.

Shannan said...

Why? Why? Why must you always post the most disgusting pictures. That better not be Layni or Savanna.