Dammit, I want sympathy

[venta]

I think I've got 'flu :(

Some of you might be familiar with my rant about 'flu.

Have you ever noticed that nobody ever takes a day off work because they've got a cold ? They always take a day off for 'flu. For ages now I've been trying to get the cold reinstated as something people take seriously - you can feel bloody awful with a cold; you don't need to claim 'flu to take time off. And regardless of what the Lemsip adverts say, you don't get better from 'flu in a day. People die of 'flu.

While I don't think my death is imminent, I think I'm justified in applying to have my cold upgraded. I'd list symptoms to demonstrate my claim, but fear it'd make very dull reading.

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[chrestomancy.livejournal.com]

SYMPATHY

That's about all the sympathy The Gibbon can send, electronically.

The Gibbon maintains he had flu, and is prepared to give details if you doubt him. The Gibbon phoned his doctor, but the doctor simply specified at which point The Gibbon should call an ambulance, and maintained that the doctor could do nothing to help. So The Gibbon's flu is also not recorded by the BMJ, and The Gibbon doubts the other 4 people in the office who caught it (and gave it to The Gibbon, who incidentally may have passed it on to you) contacted relevant health authorities either.

The Gibbon hopes you're better soon.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Generous though it is of The Gibbon to offer himself as target no. 1 for The Infectious Bastard, I was sickening [*] before I left the US, so feel it would be unfair to blame him.



[*]but we knew that anyway

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

You were ill before you left? That'll be the bloody swamp fever, then.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, curse those pesky New York City Swamps.