10-24-2004, 11:32 PM
Only TWO times in my entire life was I ever so severely incapacitated and sick with fever that I thought I might be near death.
Before the age of 15 I had gotten the flu many times. Once when I was a child I got so sick I had to go to the hospital. They told my parents there wasn't anything they could do for it except a decongestant and lots of water/juice and that I'd just to wait it out. I was sick for 2-3 weeks.
I consider myself in fair health (I exercise and eat healthy), have four kids who pass on infections all the time, and I NEVER get sick. The past four years I have not received one single cold but my entire family was BED-RIDDEN three times. I don't recall being sick between the ages of 16-21, but after the age of 23 I have only gotten the flu once, and this time happened to be when I got the flu shot! I was so sick, I had to go to the hospital again for a temperature above 105 (they gave me a shot of some kind to bring my temperature down), constant chills that made my head split and my bones ache when my body shook, some vomiting, and a overall feeling that I was going to die any moment. Everyone I know that actually GOT the flu shot that year got sick. The people that did NOT get the flu shot got mildly sick.
Call it just a hunch, but I'll NEVER get the flu shot again as long as I live!
Before the age of 15 I had gotten the flu many times. Once when I was a child I got so sick I had to go to the hospital. They told my parents there wasn't anything they could do for it except a decongestant and lots of water/juice and that I'd just to wait it out. I was sick for 2-3 weeks.
I consider myself in fair health (I exercise and eat healthy), have four kids who pass on infections all the time, and I NEVER get sick. The past four years I have not received one single cold but my entire family was BED-RIDDEN three times. I don't recall being sick between the ages of 16-21, but after the age of 23 I have only gotten the flu once, and this time happened to be when I got the flu shot! I was so sick, I had to go to the hospital again for a temperature above 105 (they gave me a shot of some kind to bring my temperature down), constant chills that made my head split and my bones ache when my body shook, some vomiting, and a overall feeling that I was going to die any moment. Everyone I know that actually GOT the flu shot that year got sick. The people that did NOT get the flu shot got mildly sick.
Call it just a hunch, but I'll NEVER get the flu shot again as long as I live!
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin