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.

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Eep! Sorry to hear it and I do hope that you use your preferred miracles of modern medicine to get as well as you can as quickly as you can.

*waves of warmth, rest and vitamin C*

[voratus.livejournal.com]

Well, if you have a cold, and want to take a day off, you can claim flu-like symptoms. That should work.
Its not like they'd force you to get a doctor's note saying you have the flu, and not a cold, would they?

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Hugs
Hope you get well soon, and take it easy for a while.

Hey, I take time off for colds.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

And I agree with you entirely.

On those rare occasions when I do have the flu, I don't want people wandering around thinking I'm a bit sniffly and feeling like shit. I want them to realise that my lungs hurt, I can barely stand up, and I'm hallucinating, dammit!

So if you indeed have the flu, or flu-like symptoms, you may have all the sympathy that I withold from evil cold-upgraders.

Vaccines..

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

The fact there is a Flu vaccine would help, if the government would make it available to everyone. Someone claiming to have flu would get looked at funny and all those people currently mislabelling colds would have to own up to colds and stress how serious there are.

So clearly you should campaign for free Flu vaccine for all ;-)

You should get better soon, its good for you.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

I have never had, and never claimed to have, flu so I can't imagine how rotten you're feeling. Get well soon.

There was a cartoon in Private Eye recently with a pharmacy divided into COLD REMEDIES and FLU REMEDIES (MEN ONLY). I've taken time off with a cold - normally encouraged by cow-orkers who don't want to catch it...

Certificate of Flu

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

This comment hereby certifies the validity of your claim to have genuine Influenza (TM) and not some wussy second-rate cold virus.

To help us certify other people's illnesses too, please tick all that apply:

[ ] Runny nose.
[ ] Splitting headache.
[ ] Stomach ache.
[ ] Nausea.
[ ] Fever.
[ ] Jedi.

(That last one was Steve's fault - sorry !)

[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.