Flu

North Bend, WA
Friday, December 22, 2006

Have you ever heard of the stomach Flu? It’s not cool… at all. My parents had it when I got home; they were over it... but not totally over it when I got home. It wasn’t contagious anymore. So I got home, went to the gym & rode the next day. When I got home from the ride I started to feel weird. I took a nap & didn’t sleep at all… my stomach was upset. I woke up and ate a little dinner and went back to bed. I threw up once every 30 minutes well into the morning.
My brother had picked me up from the airport and stayed briefly at our house before going back to his home. I wanted to see just how non-contagious the bug was. So I called him up to ask if he was sick. He said he’d had exactly the same thing at exactly the same time as I’d had mine… So there you go… I’d say that’s fairly contagious, it seems like all you’d have to do is be within 20 feet of someone with the bug for 10 seconds in order to catch it (allow incubation of one day for full effect). Everyone in Seattle’ll probably have it before the year’s over.
The good thing is that it hits hard once and then it’s gone. No sinus or lung problems, you just get an upset stomach and throw up for a day and it’s over. I’d take that over being sick for a week or two any day.