Hit me with your best shot
Everyone seems to be battling some sort of illness. Whether its just low energy due to a lack of sunshine, or the post-holiday blahs, or a flu or cold, most of us seem to be battling something or another.
Last week, 680News reporter Shauna Hunt covered a story about the peak of flu season and advice from medical experts to get a flu shot. I got a shot. I always get a shot. I started getting them several years ago when my father, who has Parkinson’s, underwent major surgery and stayed with me for his recovery. I didn’t want to be responsible for giving him the flu. After a flu-less season that year, I figured the shot was responsible and kept it up every year.
After the holidays I got this bit-of-a-cold – sore ears and throat and a little sneezing. Then it migrated to my head. Then my nose. Now it’s sitting like a baseball in the middle of my chest. But it has never fully materialized, just moved around and continued to be annoying! Some say that’s because I have a good immune system.
In chatting with colleagues here at 680News I’m finding we’re split; either we get a full-blown cold that knocks us off our feet or, like me, we get the little, teeny, migrating symptoms that work their way around and then disappear.
Many of us have become maniacs about antibacterial gels and wipes. (Some of us leave coffee spills and crumbs they wouldn’t dare walk away from at home…but, I digress!) Whatever the situation at your workplace, I hope you stay healthy and avoid getting knocked down by a bug this winter.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Nagging symptoms…dragging around for a few weeks…me too. But it hit me back in late fall. I agree that some get the full-blown illness and week of sick leave, and while we don’t really envy a sick person, some of us keep on dragging ourselves around and thinking we are not really sick enough to stay home and oh well, maybe tomorrow it will be better, or maybe even worse. Suddenly one day you feel like yourself again and you say, “Oh, yeah, this is how normal feels. I remember this! I like this!” I don’t get a flu shot, though, and I do not plan to, unless I might jeopardize someone else, in which case I would.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:43 am
The new viruses are stronger, sometimes an inhaler is helpful to get rid of the virus out of your lungs, even if you are not asthmatic.