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#255535 - 01/15/13 07:01 PM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: Arney]
MoBOB Offline
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Originally Posted By: Arney
[quote=IzzyJG99]

I'm curious, is anyone aware of other cultures where nose blowing is also discouraged?

Anyone under the age of 10? crazy
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#255540 - 01/15/13 07:42 PM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: ]
Arney Offline
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Originally Posted By: IzzyJG99
Much like Pig Pen from The Peanuts.

Very underappreciated character, Pig Pen. They need to do a Peanuts reunion, a sort of "Where are they now?" thing. smile

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#255558 - 01/16/13 04:14 AM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: Arney]
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Blowing one's nose doesn't seem so terrible to me, but custom varies from land to land, I suppose. In Germany, apparently it's not so polite to snort (you know, instead of blowing things out, "sucking things in").

I do wish the numerous Youtube video makers would clear their sinuses & throats before hitting REC. We really don't need the extra noises during the taping.

The Afrin addition is fascinating.

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#255579 - 01/17/13 07:33 AM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: Arney]
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Flu Type A sends me to the hospital shots every year, I'm fine so far.
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#255586 - 01/17/13 05:00 PM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: Arney]
Arney Offline
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Darn it, I seem to have picked up a bug yesterday. Just a stuffy nose, though. Yesterday, I thought it was just due to the very dry air. The weather here in Northern Cal became cold recently so we've suddenly been cranking up the heat lately and the air is very dry. But I overslept this morning because I was still sleepy. I never oversleep, so then it dawned on me that I caught something and that my body is tired from fighting some bug.

Oh well, could be worse. If it were the flu, it likely would've become something more obvious very quickly yesterday. Lot of people getting totally laid low this season.

I've been looking at Google Flu Trends lately. It's interesting to compare our area to other parts of the country. Back east or down south, looks like the indicators are starting to peak in many areas. Out here, though, the graphs are still shooting almost straight up with no sign of letting up, so looks like we haven't seen the worst of it yet out west.

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#255596 - 01/17/13 08:54 PM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: Arney]
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Registered: 05/29/10
Posts: 863
Loc: Southern California
Originally Posted By: Arney
I've been looking at Google Flu Trends lately. It's interesting to compare our area to other parts of the country. Back east or down south, looks like the indicators are starting to peak in many areas. Out here, though, the graphs are still shooting almost straight up with no sign of letting up, so looks like we haven't seen the worst of it yet out west.


OH YUCK!!! I just got a look at the flu trend for my city. It's already worse then the 2009/2010 season and still spiking. I'm glad my wife bugged me about getting the vaccine this year. Hopefully it'll keep me from getting sick from the flu. Too bad it doesn't work for food poisoning sick
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#255598 - 01/17/13 09:29 PM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: Arney]
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Registered: 03/03/09
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DW shared it. I am currently a snot factory, with minor coughing. Luckily, I make my own work hours, and when I do work, it's short.

For the record, she can't get the flu shot (egg allergies trigger migraines) and I usually don't, as I get sick anyhow.

I am blowing my nose - in private - and not using afrin as I am afraid of becoming addicted and reduced to panhandling in the streets to support myself and my monkey (8P).

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#255607 - 01/18/13 12:17 AM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: Arney]
ireckon Offline
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Registered: 04/01/10
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Loc: Northern California
In the past 15 years, the only two times I got the flu were the two times I got the flu shot. So, I won't be getting that again. I'll just be careful and cross my fingers.
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#255611 - 01/18/13 02:52 AM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: ]
ireckon Offline
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Loc: Northern California
Originally Posted By: IzzyJG99
Here's something interesting. My Mother was still fighting off the flu. Then yesterday she laid down to go to sleep for a nap at 3PM (She does that.) And next thing she knew? It was 9AM the next day. And she now feels fine. Weird...

So if I catch it I am going to do this.

Have a few drinks. Get into bed. Fall asleep. Hope I wake up disease free.

Well, it's a theory...


For me, I could imagine that happening if I've already started the downhill out of the sickness. That kind of recovery is not going to happen for me if I just caught the bug.
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#255618 - 01/18/13 03:52 PM Re: Did the flu get you? [Re: JBMat]
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Registered: 11/09/06
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Loc: wellington, fl
Originally Posted By: JBMat


I am blowing my nose - in private - and not using afrin as I am afraid of becoming addicted and reduced to panhandling in the streets to support myself and my monkey (8P).


Was working in the ICU taking care of an old urologist with sinus issues and cardiac dysrhthmias. He would periodically go into short runs of v-tach, asymptomatic and self-limiting. Eventually discovered that he had smuggled his afrin into the unit and was dosing himself surreptitiously, and triggering the v-tach-I think he liked the palpitations.

Dangerous stuff.
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