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How long does this lurgy/virus last?

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Ds is on day 2 and I am just starting to feel rubbish. I am assuming he is off nursery for a day or two or is it likely to be longer? This would come at the busiest time of year ... grrrrr! Poor mite looks awful though.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 19-Dec-08 08:53:09
i am wondering if there is any point to me going to se the gp in half an hour. I am thinking we will be encountering more bugs at the surgery. I just worry about her chest.
I went to the gp he said nothing he can do sad

I'm fed up of being fed up and ill now, dd2 is only 3 and is coughing all the time bless her. We both went to bed as soon as I finished work last night and I will prob do the same later if my head doesn't give up banging. It feels like it's lasted forever I can't remember not being ill!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Dec-08 20:32:23
lurgy here, really pissed off. dd is finally asleep. i just feel so isolated when she is off ill.

i'm ill too, but don't care about me, i am a grown up, it's v distressing to hear her cough so much.

i might go to gp 2morro, but wonder if there's any point tho.
Dp started with a temp on 6th dec, Dd2 and I have been ill with the same thing (temp, cough, runny nose, feeling achey, headache - feel like I'm being kicked in the head) since the 9th dec I really need to get better asap, I've been to docs who said it's a virus and could take up to 3 weeks to fully feel better. I'm now at the point of feeling ok if I take painkillers at the right times and get enough sleep - the enough sleep/ rest is tricky though because I need to work and dd2 is waking us through the night. Roll on being better!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Dec-08 13:30:15
Oh dear yes blush

not too much but occasioanlly a tiny bit...tis normale I think after children.

<and...squeeze>

Bloody hell though week three? has it been consistently this bad?

i couldn't even sit at computer yesterday, you are quite brave smile
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Dec-08 12:17:10
I'm on Week 3 and if anything I feel even worse. Temp today is 39.7 and I can't stop coughing. I haven't eaten since Sunday.

I went to work Monday and didn't quite make it to dinner time. When do I need a sick note?

Sorry if it's TMI but does anyone else wet themselves when they cough? It is driving me mad. I'm on normal pant liners but if it carries on I'm going to have to ask DH to go and get some Tena blush
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Dec-08 08:25:45
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Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Dec-08 08:21:02
Ours just seems to keep changing from one thing to another - DS had earache last week and now is onto vomiting, while I have an achey flu thing that last a couple of days, goes away and comes back again.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Dec-08 08:00:35
Well done, NQC. Am proud of you. You give us hope. grin

Kitten - are you any better? I am feeling your melodrama here. My eardrum has burst which is just lovely really. shock apparently tres common after flu.

ds1 seems chirpy enough, ds2 still misery, my parents both have flu now...we are on our own I think today...don't you sometimes just want to throw in the towel?
DS2 definately seems better today, he got a wicked appetite. That's one week from when he first got ill. I'm feeling pretty much better today - still coughing like a seal, but I kinda feel like eating, and don't feel totally miserable.
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