Flu From Hell

[Jimmy Carter]

Man, it's amazing what just a little bug can do to you. Went into the doc last Tuesday to see about coughing/fever/shortness/fatigue of breath, and he says it's just the onset of a bug that tailed a previous infection.

Bam! Next day, I feel like I'm burning alive, so I go home early from work and spend the next four days in bed watching movies on my laptop. Coughing/shortness of breath/fatigue is gone, only to be replaced by stuffy ears/dizziness/various other crap/fever. Good grief. Doc says if it isn't over with by next Tuesday, I should give him a call and I'll get some nice drugs to take care of the problem ... but man, what a nasty sickness. Because this one tailed the last one in, it feels like I've been sick for over a month.

To make it even better, I damaged my eyes last weekend while watching movies. On Saturday, I noticed that my vision seemed a little worse, so I called my Optomitrist on Tuesday. I asked him if it was normal/possible that, because I was watching stuff at such close range while sick, that I could hurt my eyes. Answer? Yes. If you have a fever, your eyes are more pliable/able to be damaged, so watching three days straight of Futurama/Slap Shot/Magical Shopping arcade while having a fever has probably knocked vision down a notch. Nice bonus. Won't be doing that next time.

Anyway, what about everyone else? Anyone else have any fun sickness stories to tell? Flus/colds from hades?

[Rumpy]

Hangovers feel like the flu. It sucks.

[Josh]

I spent the better part of today on the toilet shitting fire out of my ass, and throwing up bile in a trash can.

Mexican food + one month old cheese = bad news.

[Sl1p]

This is gonna be a DDR related story. Warning!

So about a month before this HUGE DDR tourney, Arcade Infinity's 2nd tournament, our friend Doreen gets sick with the flu. You know, come to think about it, it was just like your flu. The flu from Hell. The flu to end all flu's. The flu in which all other Flu was wrought.

We dubbed it "Dorbola".

About a week before the tournament, suddenly there was an outbreak of Dorbola. EVERYONE who came in contact with her got owned. I'm stupid because I got it too. How stupid? Well, I went over to see her one day, and she was wrapped up in this blanket she had all the time and she hugged me with it...and I let her. Thats stupid!

So the night before the tournament I leave with 3 of my best friends and our other friend John in a van. Halfway there I start breaking out in Dorbola. I got a crazy fever, sweating, chills, nausia, aches and pains, sneezing, the whole thing. Just out of nowhere I got slammed. We get to my friend Kimmie's place where we're staying, she gives me some NyQuil and I die.

The next morning I ressurect myself to go to this damned DDR tournament. I felt alright throughout the whole thing. Afterwards though...oh god..So afterwards we go and drop off my girlfriend at the time back at her place and we race to the post-tournament dinner. I straight up DIE during this. I fell asleep in the middle of eating, but luckily it was against my chair. Afterwards, Kimmie's boyfriend had to help me to the car and stuff because I was way too exhausted and dying to do it myself. I remember my friend Alice giving me a hug and it hurt. Like, when people touched me, it burnt. Totally crazy stuff. Later that night I woke up in a daze to see Kimmie hovering her hands like 3 feet above me saying "Whoa, I can feel your heat from here". Yeah, I was mummbling in my sleep and shivering and stuff. Crraaazzy!

Upon getting home I found out that I had been the outbreak monkey. I slammed all of TCL, my girlfriends brother and countless other DDR players who came into contact with me. And I felt pretty alright by the next day.

Goooooood times!

[Jimmy Carter]

Wow, that's wicked. Did you ever check your fever? That sounded like it could've been pretty high. Nasty. But at least you nailed everyone else. Nothing like being healthy while everyone else is down in the dumps.

[Sl1p]

I got to 102.9 before I stopped checking.

[MVS]

The Dr. lied to you.

It's AIDS.

He gave me 5 bucks to tell you, so here I am. Look at the brightside, though: I had a fantastic run on CounterStrike today.