Posted on 12/28/2005 3:26:58 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Flu Outbreak Hits Phoenix
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
MESA, Ariz. — A flu outbreak is making its way around and hospitals say their emergency waiting rooms are packed.
The emergency room staff at usually sees 100 to 140 patients a day without any wait.
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I fixed a realllly stiff drink, went to bed and sweted it out.
Felt much better the next day.
We get the same thing in S.Fla.,nothing new here.
It's a bad flu, and if you have allergies on top of it, the flu could kill you. I've already had it a week before Christmas. Up 40 hours without sleep. It's nothing to sneeze about.
I did not go out shopping, so I didn't spread it.
Oh yeah, if it's a bad enough case. Anyone over 60 or so or under 7 or 8 generally gets told to go as a matter of course whenever flu symptoms start, and plenty of people outside those age ranges end up needing IV fluids because they puke themselves into dehydration. Plus of course anyone with any other medical condition is generally more susceptible to complications.
What others have said in this thread is absolutely right, though: this is completely normal. The ERs fill up with flu patients every winter without fail, and it's not at all newsworthy. It's so rote that one of the main things Homeland Security worries about is what to do if a bioterrorist attack were to hit at the same time as flu season, because the American hospital system doesn't have the resources to handle a flu outbreak and any other big bug at the same time. The flu patients alone generally max out hospital capacity for whatever few weeks per year it happens to hit in any given area. (And if the big bad "bird flu" ever comes to pass, hospitals won't be able to handle that at all.)
My First Wife and I got our Flu shots on a Friday and on Monday her 3 week old cold-cough got really ugly. It is going on 7 weeks for her and 6 weeks for me.
Is a Cold also a Flu? To me the Flu is when you Puke and Poop more than normal...
Last yr there were two types of flu, just the regular ole' flu then another which hits the lungs.
Interesting. My family, including all the kids, which are many in my extended family, never went to an ER when any of us had the flu. We always went to our doctor if needed.
I have had the flu a number of times and it never made me vomit. Influenza is an upper respiratory disease. Are you talking about an intestinal virus or influenza?
Don't know if the article mentioned it, but many players on the Arizona State football team came down with the flu there prior to their Bowl game last night.
I am coming down with something and I fear its the flu. Like a good trooper, I got my flu vaccination back in October. I feel like dirt.
I kind of suspected that was the case.
Got it Sunday night around 9:00 p.m., was ready to get an ambulance at 4:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. You can't lie down because you're so dizzy. It also felt like bugs were crawling all over me. Ewwwwwwww.
Should have gotten the flu shot.
And we aren't dead yet.
Did they have any medicine to give you? There's really nothing they can give you for the flu. Boy, that doesn't sound like any kinka flu I've ever heard of. No that's not the lung flu from California.
I didn't go to the hospital, but the exhaustion from no sleep was the reason I was going to go, plus to get rehydrated. But Pedialyte did that for me. Just guzzled the stuff.
I knew it was the flu, so I didn't take anything. Except on Tuesday morning I took a Benadryl and Dramamine. But I have allergies to boot. I needed to sleep. And I finally did.
Yeah, the illegals use the emergency rooms for health care because they have to treat them for free. So, if you have an emergency, you can plan on waiting several hours for care because there are 250 illegals ahead of you with colds or the flu.
That's what I use too. When you first get that feverish feeling (before you actually get a fever) if you take it, it's gone the next day.
I figured this was the case, as we have had the flu here as the rest of my extended family and their kids, and never had to go to an ER.
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