Originally Posted by warrrreagl

Famous last words.

I deal with a lot of invincible people who are convinced that the common sniffles and fever-y ache-y feelings they get from time to time must be the flu. Trust me, you're in for a serious ass kicking the first time you catch the flu. The first time you catch the actual flu (any strain, it doesn't matter), then you'll finally know what everybody's talking about.

I've only had it once in my adult life - and I would rather have spikes screwed slowly into my eye sockets than EVER go through that again. I'm normally a big, strong, healthy motherfucker, but in the Fall of 1985 when I finally caught the flu somehow, I was reduced to jelly, and my opinion of the flu was changed forever. For two solid weeks, I had constant high fever, no ability to keep down any food, joints and muscles that felt like Marcellus Wallace had gotten medieval on my ass, and a constant headache that chewed up and spit out migraines for breakfast. Add to that a runny nose that was bloody and raw after the first two days. I spent the bulk of the two weeks on the couch and on the toilet, unable to drag myself to do much more than that. My cough and congestion didn't stop for a full month AFTER I got better, and even then I could still taste blood every time I coughed.

I have college students come up to me all the time and say, "I wasn't here Monday and Tuesday because I had the flu." I just wish I could say to them, "Shut the fuck up, you didn't have no goddamned flu. You wouldn't be fucking standing here in front of me for the rest of this month if you'd had the fucking flu. Idiot."