Last week, I missed five days of work thanks to the worst virus I've ever had. I ran a fever that got as high as 103-plus; I couldn't keep anything in my stomach; I couldn't sleep at night; I got to go to the ER once and the doctor's a second time; I was one thoroughly miserable b*stard and I don't know how my girlfriend managed to take care of me for a week without strangling me. I am finally, slowly, getting over it. I still feel a little feverish in the mornings and I have to keep aspirin near just in case. But this was definitely the sickest I've been in my whole life. Worst than chicken pox. So, what's the sickest you've ever been? ------------------ Pollution rules! Clean air sucks! I hope you're coughing, where ever you are!
I'm sure I've been more "ill" before, but the two most painful illnesses I've had: (1) A sinus infection while on an airplane going to India. Never, ever, ever get on a plane if your sinuses are congested. It felt like my head was going to explode, and I honestly thought I was dying. I had no idea what it was at the time, so It scared the crap out of me. (2) I had something similar to you last week also. Pain in the stomache / abdomen area was horrible. I couldn't sleep or do anything, but (fortunately) that only lasted one day. Only one doctor's visit, but I had the fever and all that too. It still hasn't gone away, but I can at least live fairly normally again for now. I've been more ill before, but I don't think they were this painful. ------------------ http://www.swirve.com ... more fun than a barrel full of monkeys and midgets.
I guess getting burned isn't really being sick, so I'll leave that out. 1) I once had a 103 degree fever. It started in the morning as a 100 degree fever and I just said, "ah, no big deal". I went to work and started getting the chills even though it was about 75 degrees inside. I went home and just lay in bed. My mom (a nurse) saw me shaking away. She took my temp and it was 103. That was just painful. 2) I used to work out religiously. I had since become a couch potato and a computer geek. I had gained a ton of weight in about 5-6 years. I had been getting headaches that had almost made me want to pull my car over, crawl out, and scream. I decided to start working out. Like an idiot I tried doing sprints on my bike like I used to do. I awoke staring up at the sky. I have no idea how long I was unconscious. I went to the doctor complaining about the blackout and headaches. He said, "ok, let's start with your blood pressure". Within 5 minutes they had wheelchaired me into the emergency room with a blood pressure of about 200/145. Apparently I was close to having a stroke. They gave me some pretty strong medication to floor the blood pressure. It didn't work. They gave me even stronger medication to bring it down. That worked, but for the next 2 days I felt about as loopy as you can get while my body adjusted to the new blood pressure. 3) Once when visiting India, I got amoebic dysentery (sp?). I was regurgitating stuff I didn't know I had. I swear I thought I was going to puke a wombat with all the vomiting I was doing. ------------------ "We need a chicken butt." -- heypartner is moving swiftly to help make the CC.net BBS more efficient and run faster. RAM was the first step, apparently this is the second! [This message has been edited by Dr of Dunk (edited March 27, 2001).]
1) They tried to send me to India. Noooo thanks. 22-hour flight-- I can't even imagine being sick like that flying over there. 2) I forgot to mention, I managed to lose 15 lbs over the past week. It's not like I had much weight to lose. I now weigh four lbs more than I did in high school. On the plus side, my beer handles are completely gone.
I had the same thing as shanna did, luckily he was with me on the plane to explain to me that my brain wasn't about to explode inside my head. I've had stomach viruses a couple of times, each horrible, but luckily never lasting more than one day. ------------------ www.swirve.com...The reason Al Gore invented the internet.
The sickest I've ever been occurred backstage at a show my band did at the Palomino in North Hollywood in 1991, but it had nothing to do with running a fever! ------------------ "Blues is a Healer" --John Lee Hooker
To India while sick? A healthy man going to India has a good chance of coming back sick. My manager went to Bahrain a couple years ago and came back with a virus she still can't get rid of. ------------------ Nice guys finish last ... and im surely not going to finish last!
Don't know if you can exactly classify having an appendectimy as sick, but that was the worst I ever felt. The day before was atrocious, I had serious stomach pains, and I had to go and throw up every 5 minutes, despite the fact that there was nothing in my stomach...When I went to the doctor the next day, they ran all these tests on me while I was completely miserable and wishing that I could just rip open my stomach and perform the surgery right there in the waiting area. After a while, it subsided, which I learned after the surgery was because my appendix burst, so the swelling was no longer causing pain.... happy day. My little brother had chicken pox when he was about 8-9. This doesn't sound bad except that he had it while he had broken one of his legs, so the cast was covering the chicken pox sores, and he could not scratch or even rub any kind of medicine on his leg.... I can't imagine how miserable he must have felt. ------------------ "Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian." Lee Simonson
To India while sick? A healthy man going to India has a good chance of coming back sick. No kidding. I went with my family (not by choice). They are supposed to be the "experts" on how to survive India -- they lived their for 20+ years. I was the only one not to get ill while there. (I had my sinus infection problem before that) ------------------ http://www.swirve.com ... more fun than a barrel full of monkeys and midgets.
Two things - one injury, one illness... When I was about 10, I got gastro intestinitis as the result of an allergic reaction to an antibiotic. The cramps were so bad, I couldn't make it 5 feet without falling on the ground in pain. When I was 20-ish, I injured my back and the slow degeneration of the problem turned into me not being able to walk for about a year. I could not stand up without either being in horrible pain or walking bent over so my upper torso was paralell to the ground. Doctors told me that I would wind up in a wheelchair. Fortunately, they were wrong. ------------------ AAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
I had mono last fall a week before classes started. I was MIA for a month. Mono's a pain, for some ppl it's like a common cough but for others it's really nasty. First I had a little cough and a sore throat. It felt like strep throat so I went to the doc and he's like "Ya, it's strep throat, here's some drugs" So I took those drugs for a couple days and they had 0 effect. My throat go so sore it hurt to swallow anything. So of course I avoided swallowing my own saliva which was a baaaad idea. The dryness in my mouth made it a bacteria farm. Anyway I couldn't sleep longer than 20 minutes b/c I'd sleep with my mouth open and it would cause me to cough. I had a nasty headache from not eating. The next weekend I went to a different doctor. This one had a different idea, he said I either had mono or bronchitis. He said I probably had bronchitis b/c I didn't have a fever so he gave me more drugs. He told me that if these drugs didn't work then I had mono. Anyway I took these worthless drugs for a couple days, no effect, just the same symptoms, sleep deprivation, no food, it was painful just to take the pills. Anyway a couple days later I went to a different doctor and this one gave me a new set of drugs for strep throat b/c he thought I had that but he also gave me a blood test to check for mono. He said my throat "looked like hamburger meat" (it felt like it too). The doc hooked me up with some hydrocodone. That stuff was beautiful but it only lasted a day. Man when it took away the pain for that day I ordered a pizza. I thought "Thank you God for painkillers" and I figured this stuff could work for a couple days. Nope, after that one day those drugs didn't help at all anymore. I got a call from the clinic saying I had mono though. Anyway I had the nasty symptoms of mono for a month, I got medical withdrawal from school, and I have a pharmacy at my house from all of the drugs that did me no good. I also lost 25 lbs and got the fall semester off. So after that month I had 3 free months to relax. I would have been fine with being stuck in school if that meant no mono though. Other then that I've been pretty healthy all of my life. ------------------ Mmmm ... open-faced club sand wedge.
Ooops... I always thought shanna was a girl. That's at least the second time I've messed that up. I'm still kinda confused though... didn't rm95 say thefreak and shanna are going out? You learn new things all of the time. Anyway, the last time I got seriously sick was 2/2000. A friend of mine had just come back to work from New York, where he had been hanging out with some of his other friends from India. He got pretty much everyone in our team sick with some evil Indian virus. Funny enough, everyone that was Indian or from Pakistan was sick for about 2 or 3 days. The rest of us, regardless of race more or less, were sick for over a month. The sickness boiled down to a cough... not associated with any movement in the lungs it was just a scratch (as if you had a 1000 scratchy soy shells in your throat) in which I would cough uncontrollably 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for five weeks. I guess it was more annoying than anything else. After I was put on codeine I was a bit more fun to be around. ------------------ (===)
I once had a fever near 105 , It was from a heat wave , the outside tempature was 111 . I dont really remember what happened but I'm still here today . ------------------ "Eat your kids, play with your dinner and join the chat" - Dr of Dunk gives a public sevice announcement at the request of Mike Tyson .
<u>Worst illness</u> I got a mild case of salmonella one time while working at a poultry processing plant. It felt like a constant sharp pain in the stomach and no matter what food I ate, it always came out the other end in "liquid form." Seriously -- worst case of the runs, ever.. <u>Worst alcohol-related sickness</u> One Saturday night in highschool I drank one beer and like 20 shots of tequilla in a 3 hour span. I ended up throwing up on myself (the host of the party lent me a Chicago Bulls shirt to walk home in -- ugggghhh). The next day, I woke up lying on my bed in my underwear with no sheets or blankets. Then the puking started. I couldn't even make it to the bathroom the first few times and ended up hurling out my bedroom window. First I puked up all the alcohol I had consumed. Then, the stomach acid came up; I hate the burning, rotten feel of stomach acid in your mouth. Finally, I started throwing up blood. It was horrible, and the puking lasted off and on all through the day. I was totally useless; couldn't do anything at all except lie there, sweating. Worst hangover ever. ------------------ My dream job is to be a Houston Rockets towel boy.
Food Poisoning! Bad bad bad! I was laid up in bed for 4 days, and throwing up about every 10-12 minutes the first day. I passed out several times on the bathroom floor, was too weak to make it back to bed. I threw up some stuff that you only see in science fiction movies.....UGH!! It was so violent, I at one point was laying on the floor, vomiting into a plastic bag (didn't make it to the bathroom that time), and the force of it literally took my whole body off the ground, so that only my elbows and feet were touching the floor. MISERY! ------------------ There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
Yes, the ending of a promising sports career vs. Ali's story... hmm... I agree you won. Ali, I would've given you an 8 for the near-death experience due to medical ignorance, but the story's impact was lessened with the cat-scratch fever story. Nobody can take that seriously. I'd have to give you a 7. Rimbaud gets a 9.5. ------------------ "We need a chicken butt." -- heypartner is moving swiftly to help make the CC.net BBS more efficient and run faster. RAM was the first step, apparently this is the second!
Worse time was Christmas two years ago. We had both sides of the family over for Christmas dinner (15 people total) and everyone ate different stuff. Later that day, we were leaving some friends house we had visited and got in the car. We hadn't even made it out of the driveway when my middle child threw up all his Christmas dinner in the car. Thank God we were out of their house first. Ten minutes later we were home, and my oldest child was throwing up. Before the night was through all three kids were throwing up, and my wife had the runs. I was cleaning up after four people when I got sick. Try caring for an entire family while you are vomiting. Ugh. Before it was all over, 14 of the fifteen people that ate dinner got sick. We tried to narrow down the cause, but there wasd no common food that everyone ate, and the only one who did not get sick (my brother) ate some of everything. It was a two day illness, and the nastiest cleaning job I ever had to do. On top of all that, we were afraid to eat any Christmas leftovers. Bummer! Oh man, the first time I drank tequila like that was the last time I drank tequila like that. I was throwing up all the way home that night (and I was driving myself home....bad idea). I had to be at work the next morning at 10. I woke up at eleven, threw up again, and struggled out to the parking lot of my apartment to go to work. Couldn't find my car. I walked around the building and found it by the dumpster....with a flat tire. It must have been 90 degrees outside, I'm almost two hours late for work, and I have to change a flat tire. I got to work, threw up again, and the boss sent me home....laughing his ass off the whole time. Now the good part. The smell of tequila would make me sick, but just a week after that incident, I went to a bar with my roommate. He was hitting on some girl, when the girl's boyfriend (a monster of a man) came up to me and said "Your friend is hitting on my girlfriend and I'm gonna kill him". Instant terror overcomes me. My roommate sees this going on, and asks the bartender to sneak him out the back door. After the monster argues with his girlfriend, he comes looking for me and my friend, who is long gone by now. So I tell the guy "Come down, he's gone, let me buy you a drink". So we go to the bar and he says...as you can guess..."Two tequilas". I say I don't want one, but he insists. I had to drink the evil liquid to calm down a monster who wanted to kill my roommate. How I didn't throw up on the spot is still a mystery. I later went home and told my roommate that I was gonna kill him now for making me drink that stuff! ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS [This message has been edited by Behad (edited March 27, 2001).]
Mono was easily the crappiest I've ever felt. I had a nice raging case, too, took over six weeks to shake off. I lost over thirty pounds, which was something back then. The most pain I've ever felt was when I got an appendectomy last August. I don't think that it burst, but it was intense. I was throwing up with nothing to throw up, rolling around on their bed... it blew. After BC beat Notre Dame in 1993, I don't think I've ever been so sickened in my life. ------------------ The Badministrator
I guess the sickest I've ever been, now that I think about it, was a few years ago. I don't remember much about it, actually. I remember I was watching the Oilers play the Bills in the playoffs. It was in Buffalo, I remember...gosh, what a beautiful day it was, the sun was shining, the birds were singing...and the Oilers were up 35-3. Then things start to get hazy. I remember going into a kind of hysteria...I lost control of my bodily functions, started moving about the house in an oddly dilerious fasion. I remember I was sweating profusely, and my pulse was very quick. Then everything for about the next couple of hours is completely lost. I awoke to find my house completely trashed. A storm had apparently gathered outside my window... the birds were no longer singing. I was still sweating with what I think was an extreme fever. My head ached, my Warren Moon jersey was stained with vomit, and my vision was still blurry. The oddest thing about it, though, is that it seems to be a recurring sickness. Like, every time I try to find out what happened in the game after I blacked out...I just lose time, or something. I wake up on the street next to a news stand, or in front of my computer...I just don't get it. Could one of you guys tell me what happened? I'd be very grateful. ------------------ "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams
