OT: Flu shot redux

[8893]

So I woke up with what felt like the flu this morning and just confirmed that it is influenza A, the strain that is most common right now. I had the flu shot for this strain a couple months ago so I am hopeful that I have a relatively mild bout, which is what has happened the few times I have had it over the years. Fingers crossed, but I will say that, although I feel like crap, I don’t feel as bad as I feared I would when I felt it coming on. Put me squarely in the flu shot camp.

 

[Yardigan]

So I woke up with what felt like the flu this morning and just confirmed that it is influenza A, the strain that is most common right now. I had the flu shot for this strain a couple months ago ..... Put me squarely in the flu shot camp.

Sorry, that puts me more squarely in the 'no thanks' camp.

 

[8893]

Sorry, that puts me more squarely in the 'no thanks' camp.

Shocker.

 

[Northbound]

How did you confirm it's influenza A?

 

[polycom]

To the pool we go

 

[Stainmaster]

Just wait. The influx of illegals may get you a case of Zeka Virus (or worse).

You're more dangerous than 50,000,000 of them combined.

 

[8893]

How did you confirm it's influenza A?

Flu test. You stick a long cotton swab uncomfortably high up your nose until your eyes water, twist for ten seconds to get some booger juice on it, and then they test it and you get results in 15 minutes or less. Mine took around five minutes to show positive for influenza A.

 

[jdb50]

Just wait. The influx of illegals may get you a case of Zeka Virus (or worse).

I thought they were bringing leprosy? Hannity said so.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Just wait. The influx of illegals may get you a case of Zeka Virus (or worse).

uh what

 

[8893]

Update: Vitamin G* helps tremendously.


*Grand Marnier in a heated snifter.

 

[TRest]

Update: Vitamin G* helps tremendously.


*Grand Marnier in a heated snifter.

Aren’t you a fancy man.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

Hope you feel better. I need to get my flu shot.

 

[buddy]

Just wait. The influx of illegals may get you a case of Zeka Virus (or worse).

"Zeka"? LOL! What is Zeka? I think you just invented a new virus! Nobel Prize to you!

 

[8893]

Aren’t you a fancy man.

Because I can heat water in a microwave?

 

[TRest]

Because I can heat water in a microwave?

You own, and utilize, a snifter.

 

[AntG168]

I haven’t gotten the flu since I stopped getting the shot lmao

 

[8893]

You own, and utilize, a snifter.

I tended bar for more than a decade in a variety of establishments and a variety of locations on both coasts; it’s hard to not to want proper glassware once you know what it is.

I have exactly one snifter for exactly this purpose.

 

[minidarren]

I tended bar for more than a decade in a variety of establishments and a variety of locations on both coasts; it’s hard to not to want proper glassware once you know what it is.

I have exactly one snifter for exactly this purpose.

Do you use a warmer?

 

[temery]

Flu test. You stick a long cotton swab uncomfortably high up your nose until your eyes water, twist for ten seconds to get some booger juice on it, and then they test it and you get results in 15 minutes or less. Mine took around five minutes to show positive for influenza A.

If there's nothing they can do for a virus there's no reason to do the test. My guess is it's for epidemiological purposes and I'm not going through that so they can count cases.

The first question I ask when a doctor wants to do a test is, "how will the result help treat what's wrong."

 

[temery]

I haven’t gotten the flu since I stopped getting the shot lmao

Typhoid Mary would have said the same thing.

 

[8893]

If there's nothing they can do for a virus there's no reason to do the test. My guess is it's for epidemiological purposes.

My wife is a pediatric nurse. She wanted to know because it means she needs to be extra vigilant now in staying away from me, as she can’t go to work if she gets it.

Apparently they can give you Tamiflu, which is an antivirus medication that has some side effects and at best decreases the length of the flu by a day. Since I had the flu shot and am otherwise relatively young and healthy there is no reason for me to take it.

 

[8893]

Do you use a warmer?

No. I did at some places where I tended but at home I just put hot water in the snifter (sometimes boiling water from a kettle; sometimes microwave), let it sit for a minute, then toss the water and pour in the Grand Marnier.

 

[TRest]

I tended bar for more than a decade in a variety of establishments and a variety of locations on both coasts; it’s hard to not to want proper glassware once you know what it is.

I have exactly one snifter for exactly this purpose.

I've got a couple of Couvosier (spic) snifters from a gift bottle package over 20 years ago. I hang on to them but never drink anything they would be suited for. I remember people using B & B as a cold/flu remedy back in the day.

 

[Northbound]

I tended bar for more than a decade in a variety of establishments and a variety of locations on both coasts; it’s hard to not to want proper glassware once you know what it is.

I have exactly one snifter for exactly this purpose.

Indeed. I've got a ton of different glassware - a good glen cairn really helps pull the aroma out of whatever you're drinking and if you're using a glen cairn it's likely brown.

Not only can it enhance the enjoyment, but a drink in the proper glassware just tightens the presentation up.

 

[CL82]

My wife is a pediatric nurse.

For a second I read that as "My wife is a pedantic nurse" and I was thinking well that's an odd revelation; must be the fever.