I have flu and a work thing i can't get out of tomorrow- how do i make it through the day?

Hope you got through your meeting ok OP. lol at the flu gatekeepers here.

What you have is a bad cold. If you had flu you wouldn’t be able to get out of bed. I wouldn’t go to work, especially if there’s a presentation. Protect others, don’t spread it.

Oh and DH's chicken pox turned into meningitis and hospitalisation so clearly you only have varicella if you're in HDU.

And I walked out into traffic today and didn't die so fuck the Green Cross Code.

My Grandma died from the common cold. I'm going to start posting that people on here claiming to have a cold are clearly lying as they're alive.

True. She's clearly got a nasty virus, which shouldn't be spread.

I (along with other MNers) just find the constant repetition of "I had flu once and was completely incapacitated therefore if you are not incapacitated it isn't flu" an offence against logic too annoying to ignore.

It's like saying "my aunty died of Covid-19 so you can't have had Covid-19 if you're still alive" or "my dog's black so if your pet is brown it must be a cat".

OP unless your work involves ensuring a nuclear weapon isn’t deployed, you really can have a sick day off. Please don’t go into work with flu or put your health at further risk

and they cba to even skim read the thread !

Flu is truly awful. If you had that you wouldn't have the strength to be on your phone/laptop, never mind contemplate going into work!

Another one spouting the same myths about flu. It’s been debunked numerous times on MN and yet people still continue to believe that flu has to be severe or it isn’t flu.

Flu is truly awful. If you had that you wouldn't have the strength to be on your phone/laptop, never mind contemplate going into work! There are many horrible viruses around that make you feel rubbish but that you can still move around with, however it's still unfair to consider spreading the bugs around to others.

Aside from the fact that Ibuprofen/paracetamol shouldn't be alternated two hourly, it doesn't matter whether it's mild flu or a bad cold or jungle fever. They're all viruses, forget for a minute that the pandemic didn't happen and we had to think for ourselves when we weren't well, and do that. If you're too sick to go, you won't be able to do so. If you're well enough and you can't steer clear, then there's your answer. No diagram needed.

Wow, what an amazingly convincing diagnostic tool.

Alternatively what the CDC says.

Note that it does not mention trains, inability to open eyes, inability to leave bed, lack of interest in fifty pound/dollar notes.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/coldflu.htm#:~:text=The%20symptoms%20of%20flu%20can,a%20runny%20or%20stuffy%20nose.

What a load of arrant nonsense.

Oh for gods sake, please stop martyring yourself.

As a grown adult, if you're too unwell to work then you have the right to make that decision.

On the basis you haven't prepared because you have been unwell and not just lazy....

Just make the call and be an adult. Conference and events folk are well versed in adjusting plans when someone can't make it.

Less of this 'please help me to be a hero'. Ugh.

That's a good point, i believe this self-diagnosis aid was prepared by a doctor who clearly hadn't thought it through.

If one IS hit by a train, and it is a glancing blow one may just suffer some bruising however a full frontal impact is most likely to be fatal. Neither, rarely comparable with flu.

Tut, doctors, eh?

Stay at home btw. My husband passed it on to me. It is very contagious.

Sudafed is amazing to completely clear your airways and get rid of that that hot, fuzzy head feeling so you can think properly. It is a miracle product.

Whether the OP can lift her head off the pillow or not, whether she has a mild/moderate/severe dose - it's all irrelevant.

The fact is, she's ill, she feels like shit and has been unwell for a week. How incredibly selfish to even contemplate turning up for a conference where she could infect others, just to try to cover up her own lack of organisation and inability to delegate.

(What's the betting the OP now comes back and says btw it's online, now she's been called out for being a dick!!)

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

Not quite true, swine flu for instance barely affected me but put others in hospital because we are all different.

If you have been vaccinated for seasonal flu it can reduce the severity and shorten the length too

I suspect many will have already seen this...

I had the flu and still had to drag myself around to look after the kids whilst trying to rest in-between. Not all are bed bound.

So how does the OP know and can state she has "the flu"?

@ResidualHeat unless she's done a test, she doesn't. No one does. But PP is correct that it's a myth that flu must always completely incapacitate you. Hardly anyone is tested for flu if they're just ill at home, yet people confidently state "well the only time I had flu I couldn't lift my head off the pillow". They probably didn't have it confirmed it was flu then, and probably also didn't have it confirmed that any other milder illnesses weren't flu, they just assumed it wasn't because they didn't feel as ill. Flu can be asymptomatic, mild, moderate, severe, and fatal.

@MsRosewater

if you are sick stay in bed.
please don't share your germs to all it's very selfish

also get over yourself the world will not end if you don't go.

jeez

This. I had to take my unwell son to the doctors and he noticed I was unwell too (sons was ear infection or similar) and he diagnosed me with flu. I felt rotten, achy all over, shivers etc but I’m a single mum and my child was ill so I just got on with it (I genuinely didn’t realise I had flu).

Having a cough is really not socially acceptable any more. At the very least you need to wear a mask.

If you have the strength and energy to attend, I suggest Solpadeine Max to take the edge off.

I'm d be ripping if you came anywhere near me with flu or whatever it is. You have no idea who is immunosuppressed or has family members dealing with cancer etc.

No panel is that important. Spend the time organising your notes so you can delegate.