waiting for the other shoe to hurl
 

CustomG and Inch both got a GI virus during a recent visit to friends of ours. There has been hurling a plenty and many pale green faces.

Somehow I've managed to avoid it so far...

I guess their kid was still contagious after all.

(With friends like that, who needs enemas?):worried:

There should be some way to criminally charge parents who say "Oh, he's not contageous any more. Don't mind the open weeping sores, you can't get the ebola from those."

That's how I got chicken pox.

Good luck ... this too shall pass.

That sucks. I hope you continue to avoid it.

I'm scared right now. There are three bugs going around this area right now. I've been able to avoid them so far. Not sure how. But I keep hearing of others who are falling ill. I try not to breathe too deeply as I am packed like a sardine in our public transit system twice a day. If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger, right?

For GI bugs, the top three important things to do in public venues (where you can't clean surfaces etc.) are:

1. Wash your hands.
2. Wash your hands.
3. Wash your hands.

Oh yes, and don't touch your face. Ever.

If it's airborne, you're done. :worried:

And that's infectious disease prevention 101. :D

That said, I think little kids can somehow get their GI viruses to become airborne ...

When we did our pediatrics rotations at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), the senior residents smugly told us that all of us, without exception, would come down with gastro during our month on the ward. We all scrubbed our hands until they were raw. Still, it was the only place I've ever been where interns and residents doing rounds with the attending would suddenly turn green and bolt for the bathroom down the hall, and the attending wouldn't miss a beat.

Not one of us survived ... :repuke:

I gave chicken pox to a whole poolful of children (potentially) but my Mum is innocent.

We'd just come back from holiday and had the hire car for an extra day, so my parents took us to the really cool swimming pool about 20 miles away. It had a slide and a wave machine and everything!

It wasn't until I got home - and was a bit grizzly and out of sorts - that my "what's this Mum?" first spot was discovered. Mum kissed me from what I remember. For not spoiling the holiday.

Good luck in not getting a free pass to the vomitarium Foot.

Nothing like sharing a good family vomit to bring everyone together.
:(

I don't know if that's the same thing that's going around here or not...
The virus i'm hearing about is coming out of both ends...and it's not pretty. I've managed to avoid it, I don't know how. A friend of mine and I were hanging out at his parents house, a week after it had been there (the whole house got it, one after the other, in one weekend) he got sick, but I didn't. My older brother got it...but nobody else in my family has. It's weird how that all works out.

DH had the double whammy virus a few weeks ago. Minirat and I both avioded it, Thank G*d!!

How's it going footsie?

thought I'd ride in on the coattails...I am so bloody awful sick I wish I could curl up and die but NO! Instead I am here at school, wondering if I should just DROP statistics, my lungs on fire and a constant deep, husky cough. Plus, my whole bod aches. I had to come---if you miss even ONE frickin' class, you're toast. Ugh...I want a blankie and a couch and hot tea and a mooooooovie. :bawling:

Look on the bright side, you're not having a stroke :)

Hope you feel better soon, Bri!

Thanks!

Went to doc= $80.00
Paid for antibiotic=$49.99 (Z pak)
Paid for 2 ounces (yes, that's TWO OUNCES) of cough syrup=$43.47 (tussionex)

Not having a stroke=priceless ;)

That's more than I've spent on my health care in the past two years. Not joking.

How on earth did cough syrup cost you so much? and antibiotics?
Antibiotics are so cheap local pharmacies givethem out free. Is that something only for people with insurance? Or are they not run-of-the-mill ones? Or am I being too nosy?

Ah, not too nosey. I've no Rx coverage, and, you are right, they ARE giving antibiotics away for free here in Ohio, too. I was Rx'd a med called Z pack which I am guessing isn't one of the freebies. I believe the freebies are like Amoxicillin, etc. Anyway, I called around for prices and that's what I ended up with. The cough syrup is called Tussionex and the same story there. I asked why it cost so much and the pharmacist said, "because it works," which made me wonder why on earth they sell us medicine that doesn't work? So, like, the ones that really DO work cost? I don't get it. anyway, you can certainly google the meds or call your pharmacy to see if it's any cheaper in MI, but I doubt it is. Actually, i'd be kinda interested in knowing what they cost up there...betcha it's the same.

I think b/c I have pneumonia, I was given a big gun, antibiotic-wise. But, check out the tussionex. It's UNREAL! I called WalMart, Meijer, WalGreens, Krogers, and CVS! that's what TWO OUNCES cost! That's like a rare perfume or something!

Well, a quick Google search shows that SafeUSMeds.com is selling that cough syrup as 120mL (4 oz) for 48.88 and free shipping. So it's almost half the price you paid, but you have to wait presumably a few days for it to arrive. This is all assuming that this website is legit, which I don't know.

roflmao

OMG! I'm freaking crying.

I got hosed, then. it never occurs to me to check online! I wonder how long it would've taken to ship...I needed those meds asap. anway, good to remember the Net whilst price shopping for Rx.

Tussionex is expensive because it's seriously potent stuff. You've basically got yourself a narcotic analgesic there, so do be careful.

I assume you're shaking yourself apart coughing and unable to sleep, but you'd probably be better off with a liquid anti-histamine and some glycerin to soothe your throat. Chocolate contains a natural antitussive(theobromine). Which is addictive in other ways :)

When I say better off I simply mean from a financial and not-getting-addicted point of view - I do appreciate that this will work, and work very well short term.

Let me know if it works......

Pneumonia -ouch! and yuck. Poor you.

Is tussionex a cough suppressant or expectorant or both?

If you need a cough suppressant what's wrong with good old opium derivitives? Christ, they should be cheap as shit, now that Afghanistan is back inour good graces...

It's a cough suppressant. And it is an opiate.

Cheaper on the street then...

I expect the Z pack is Zithromycin... I've had it a couple times. I don't know if there's any difference in efficacy. But the dosing is more convenient--once a day for a week is considered a full course, as opposed to twice a day for two weeks.

Zithromax is now dosed two pills a day for three days. None of this long five day stuff!

They gave me Zithromax once.

I puked in a violent and lengthy fashion within 10 seconds of swallowing the first pill, and repeated this process until they prescribed something else.

Are you kidding? There isn't a decent opium den within 50 miles of my house.

Ok--the label on the box says this: AZITHROMYCIN tablets, 250mg; take two tabs at once today, then one a day until gone. Generic for Zithromax. The name brand zithromax cost around 71.00; this stuff was 49.99.

I'm feeling better but I still am way, waaaaay short of breath. I break out in a cold sweat just going around the house.

I hate this :(

I got sick with a rotten sinus infection, the doctor went to perscribe Z-pak, but since I said I couldn't afford it, she perscribed something that costs $10, without insurance. That's a lot of money for convience. There were two or three other options that she considered when I told her I couldn't afford the Z-pak, and am alergic to penicillin.

I got that GI virus. Not nice. Not nice at all. I hope you feel better soon Bri!!

Thanks! I hope you get well soon, too! I'm better but my voice is messed up. I sound like a 60 year-old, hard-bitten alcoholic barmaid in Anchorage on 2 paks a day. It's screwing up my phone sex business. Dammmmit!

It's hard to believe nobody else is turned on by the sound of a 60 year-old, hard-bitten alcoholic barmaid in Anchorage on 2 paks a day. :eek:

I had some version yesterday and last night. Not pleasant.

Call me! ;)