Saeed - How did you find out about this? It was supposed to be a clandestine operation by SCI to cause this ruckus. You must have insiders in SCI these days, huh? Hope it all stays in Dallas. Most likely will as it's toooooo cold (as some weenies here say) in Reno for the flu virus to survive.

Larry Sellers
SCI Life Member

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Originally posted by Saeed:
It was all SCI's fault!

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Originally posted by ddrhook:
bunch of candy ass's whinning over a few sniffels and a cough man up drink more shine!!!! I'm fit as a fiddle back home in kenya

Changa'a maybe?

Swine flu is nothing to mess with! Easily transmitted.

Barry,I also unfortunately took a direct hit at the packed Dallas show and had to ride it out on 16 hours of Delta Flight 200..

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Originally posted by ddrhook:
bunch of candy ass's whinning over a few sniffels and a cough man up drink more shine!!!! I'm fit as a fiddle back home in kenya

Those sniffels and coughs have killed four people in North Texas just this week! However I'm sure they bwere just candy asses is why it killed them. One 19 yr old boy lived three days after showing symptoms, and three lived four or five days! In the last four days this has been listed as an epidimic in all the lower 48 states.

Bunch of friends here in NY, complaining of the DSC flu too...

I guess I lucked out.

Best wishes for a fast recovery to everyone feeling "under the weather".

The flu bug is nasty. Almost all of my coworkers have missed time or are currently missing time. The doctor told each of them they had to miss at least a week, etc. My poor secretary missed two weeks. Good luck in a bad bad flu season.

Someone must of caught it on a flight in and passed it around at the Friday night dinner. I attended all of the DSC banquets, walked the show Friday and Saturday, and worked at the registration desk and concierge booth and didn't catch anything.

I blame it on Karl since he blamed it on me & Ernest.

Hey Blank, where did you get Hooker's baby picture above????? :-)

Attended the show on Sunday and was feeling well. By Tuesday night I was sicker than a dog. Bad strain this year. Darrell

Biebs: Hook had good taste as a child, this is the one with questionable morals.

I haven't taken the flu shot (my own stupidity?). However, Dr Mike gave me a shot of something Thursday and another shot of a different flavor on Friday. Could that have been what has kept me from catching the flu?

About 1/2 our crew came down with it this week, including me and momma! Fever, chills, feel like half beaten to death, no voice, cough, major sinus infection, and so forth. Ugly.
Michael

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Originally posted by MacD37:

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Originally posted by ddrhook:
bunch of candy ass's whinning over a few sniffels and a cough man up drink more shine!!!! I'm fit as a fiddle back home in kenya

Those sniffels and coughs have killed four people in North Texas just this week! However I'm sure they bwere just candy asses is why it killed them. One 19 yr old boy lived three days after showing symptoms, and three lived four or five days! In the last four days this has been listed as an epidimic in all the lower 48 states.

Definitely nothing to fool around with.

Over 30,000 people died in 2002-2003 in the US from a strain of Influenza A very similar to that with which we are dealing this season. My mother was just released from the hospital after suffering with the flu. Had she not received the vaccine - which prevents a lot and attenuates most of this year's strain - she would probably not have survived.

I wish it were swine flu - more communicable but far less deadly.

Stay away from people who have "cold" symptoms. If you have cold symptoms, stay away from those you love. If you've just developed "cold" symptoms, get a rapid flu test and if positive take Tamiflu immediately. It's only somewhat effective in reducing duration and severity if started within 48 hours of first symptoms.

Be smart - I'd like all of you to be around and posting for a long while to come.

Stay well,

Paul

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Originally posted by Eardley Rudman:
Barry,I also unfortunately took a direct hit at the packed Dallas show and had to ride it out on 16 hours of Delta Flight 200..

Jammer! I've found out the Z-pak is worse than the flu. Carmen must cuddle you. Get better my friend, and tell Apie hello from the crazy guy van Clute, Texas af.

This subject just rubs me raw. If you have any of the symptoms listed by CCMDoc just plain stay away! The problem that we have is that people just can't bring themselves to stay away when they're sick and they then spread it to the rest of us. If you're sick then stay home, or at the hotel, period. If you're coming to SCI, please be considerate to the rest of us who have had the flu shot, and are trying to avoid the flu because we frequent very old people or newborn babies and very young children, please.

The only reason this is being discussed on this thread is because so many of us just returned from Dallas.
There are people in all of the lower 48 suffering from this, so staying away from SCI or whatever is probably not feasable for all.
I was fine until I got home.
Who knew this was going to happen.
I know people who traveled from all over the world to sell their hunts & wares in Dallas, there was simply too much at stake to stay cooped up in a hotel room during the conv.
If your concern is great enough, then stay home youself, some of these folks are working sick & just trying to make a living. I have certainly had to do the same myself in the past.
Thankfully I can now stay home & avoid passing this on to others.
To those among us that are sick, get well soon!

I would kiss a pig before before i would kiss that socialist pig or her messiah.
I'm truly sorry ya'll have the flu as a nurse my heart goes out to you.
and to those how have no since of humor you know what part of my anatomy you can kiss.
Beibs excluded I have seen the pictures he's one sick puppy even without the flu

Hooker seems to be the prime suspect, eh?
He is probably an asymptomatic carrier of Type A, H1N1 swine flu: "Hooker-One-N-One"

This heretofor unheard of phenomenon will surely soon be all over the medical literature.
A human reservoir for the virus, cohabiting with swine and thus keeping the virus going in both human and pig populations.

I had the flu shot in November.
It obviously did not cover the latest Hooker1N1 mutation.
I got the crud Sunday evening after show's end, on the way home. Thought I was near death for two days, coughing and blowing nose, achy all over, fever and chills.
I got better, but Mrs. RIP started getting sick on Monday, and by Tuesday was sicker than I have ever seen her.
She tested negative for flu by the nasal swab yesterday, outpatient visit, but that will probably miss 30% to 50% of cases,
by false negative rate, in good hands.
She also had nausea and vomiting in addition to the respiratory crud. Seems to be getting a little better now.

Clinical diagnosis: Swine Flu, Hooker1N1, Type A influenza.

No deaths at my home yet.

DSC: Wow!

Boy, do we feel lucky. We both had our flu shots, spent the whole weekend with Ernest, Sandy, Jim and Karin, and still feel great.

Have to admit though, I have become a hand sanitizer addict.

Last years thread??

Larry Sellers

I am so embarrased.

For you that had congestion, watery eyes and sneezing. Mountain Cedar pollen was practically of the scale in Dallas.
I had a flu shot and have not experienced it but this mountain cedar is kicking my Claritin's ass.
I live in the Dallas area and it is still bad. If the flu did not get you, this is likely what you experienced.

Maybe last year's thread, but the swine flu is back this year again (2014) in the Intermountain West, as well as the Southwest (Nevada-Las Vegas) Just had a friend die from it in Utah and her funeral is Monday. Get your shots. For her, (very healthy and an exercise freak), it started out as a cold, went to a bad cold, and by the time she went to the emergency room to see what she needed to be treated for, she collapsed and was dead one week later. I know of another family in our area of Vegas with it. Not something to catch.

My wife & I also lucked out, we were at the AR Friday night dinner, fun time. Both had flu shots earlier in PA. Wishing a speedy recovery to those affected.

Hell of a deal to read all this.
I've had very runny clogged up sinus's the last three days.
Haven't been out of the house in over a week, had the flu shot in Nov. And didn't go to Dallas either.

What's the chance of catching this by "computer virus?

Here in town last I week I hear two died in less than five days, 58 in the hosp. Sounds mighty serious.

Hope everyone gets over it soon. Mine seems to be clearing up this evening.
George

Well, I'm glad I couldn't go this time???
What a bad year 2013 was!!! (And get better, all of y'all.)

So far, so good! Peggy and I both had vaccinations.

I was not at DSC but was visiting the US for other purposes. A couple of my friends were a bit sick but we all had no choice but to get together at a couple of events we had planned for over a year.

Sure enough, I came back and between the travel stress, jet lag, and work stress upon return, the old immune system was probably depressed. I was then sick for about 10 days with the worst flu I have ever had. I am only 42 years old, but it would be easy to imagine an 80 year old not surviving what I had. Definitely nothing to mess around with. I rode it out and after basically ten days in bed the doc told me it had turned into bacterial bronchitis and sinus infection. Four days on antibiotics and I am finally about 90%.

Moral: Get your flu shots and stop socializing with sick people!

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Moral: Get your flu shots and stop socializing with sick people!

What??!! And quit AR??

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
What??!! And quit AR??

Amen to that!

Hooker was there....better get checked for Swine Flu :-)

Mine started yesterday, only spending half a day in the office today. It will be gone in a week or two with medicine and 14 days without.

I want to apologize for exposing the good people at DSC with my highly contagious arthritic knees, but I definitely would have loved to pass them on to some unscrupulous outfitter if possible.

A teachers aide at the school where my wife teaches just died of the flu last night. 55 year old Mother and Grandmother.....tragic thing.

Nothing bad from DSC........except maybe a hangover......

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I walked the show Friday, spent all day Saturday & Sunday in my hotel room, wiped out. Went to Beinfield Las Vegas show last week, same thing, walked show Saturday, spent yesterday in hotel room coughing. Took flu shot earlier this year. This has been my worst year for respiratory crud I can remember. A number of cases of "walking pneumonia" have been reported in our town.

So it seems that those of us not at DSC will be going to SCI to visit with a bunch of sick outfitters? Sorry to hear about that, nothing to mess around. Have any of those sick went to Dr and got Tamiflu right away??

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Originally posted by ddrhook:
bunch of candy ass's whinning over a few sniffels and a cough man up drink more shine!!!! I'm fit as a fiddle back home in kenya

RIGHT! only 52 mostly young healthy people have now died with this strain of H1N1 flu in Texas, 29 of them in Dallas alone, most who had the flu shots that didn't help!

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