Comment preview: Well, not a parent, kid that grew up. We had a rule, that if you were sick at any point during the week, you were grounded for the weekend. No going out and playing, because you missed a day of school. Now this did two things. This punished you when you we ....

Comment preview: :;headdesk:: That sounds so stupid. When I was pregnant with my son, one of the front end crew came in sick as a dog. Like, she was coughing, sneezing, her eyes were glazed over and she looked feverish. The store mgr REFUSED to send her home and half the f ....

Comment preview: I'm an immunologist/microbiologist, here's a few: * don't take a fever reducer if your fever is below 102. Unless you feel like you literally want to die, don't take one. That fever is slowing the spread of pathogens in your body. I know you feel sick. Man ....

Comment preview: Viruses live and breed in a temperature around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Much like humans, much higher or lower and they can't survive for long and they have a harder time replicating. This is why you get a fever when you get the flu. That is your body turn ....

Comment preview: I work at a Starbucks in an airport. It's a licensed store operated by a company called HMS Host. If an employee calls in sick or goes home early from a shift for any reason, even with a doctor's note, he or she receives points that count toward being fire ....

Comment preview: I'm medical myself. I have to disagree. Fever has been shown to aid the body in fighting pathogens. Rather than the occurrence of fever being an error related to all kinds of chemicals floating around, it's an evolved response. Certain pathogens don't func ....

Comment preview: This happened at my work too (also a couple years ago.) One of our managers came into work *extremely* sick: the woman could barely stand. She was pallid, visibly feverish, and looked like she hadn't slept in days. She basically spent her entire shift hidi ....

Comment preview: If you like having a runny nose and a little fever without being actually infected with something, sure. EDIT: I now have 3 people commenting on this who just selfdiagnosed themselves with an immunesystem acting up due to sleep deprivation based on my very ....

Comment preview: Dany believes she is immune to fire and disease, despite knowing in the past that she was burned and sick. She is unreliable. "I am the blood of the dragon...Have you ever seen a dragon with the flux?... Viserys had often claimed that Targaryans were untro ....

Comment preview: Ahh, Dengue fever is the worst. I contracted it in the Philippines but fortunately I flew into Bangkok before the symptoms got bad (Didn't know it was Dengue at that point just thought I had a fever). Once in Bangkok I could tell this was no ordinary fever ....

Comment preview: I had been sick with a fever for a week when I was a kid, and it was starting to break. Had been to the local hospital and everything to try and keep my temperature down. Anyways, it started to improve, I got home and was bored senseless in bed after havin ....

Comment preview: so, funny story. For my 6th or 7th birthday my mom had set up a party for me at the local zoo since her friend was one of the vets that worked there. It was in their private party room thing and they were going to bring in a bunch of snakes and spiders an ....

Comment preview: I was really sick one winter during college. I had a very high fever, body aches and a headache. I was freezing so I bundled up in sweatpants, a hoodie, and thick socks. I medicated myself and hit the sack before 10pm. The next morning I woke up and opened ....

Comment preview: This happened to a friend of mine in college. His roommate took him to the emergency room after he'd been sick for a few days and one afternoon he had a ridiculously high fever and had started convulsing and vomiting. The hospital then "lost" him and he ....

Comment preview: >I, Zephaniah Mann being of sound mind, do herby vow to haunt the earth as a horrifying poltergeist, until such time as I have quenched my all-consuming thirst for vengeance against the world, and especially against my dunderhead sons. If it takes a bra ....

Comment preview: [Hidden link](http://www.teamfortress.com/pumpkinpatch/the_last_will_and_testament_of_Zepheniah_Mann/). Transcription: --- I, Zephaniah Mann, being of sound mind, do hereby vow to haunt the earth as a horrifying poltergeist, until such time as I have quenc ....

Comment preview: My mother did the same thing. I remember her calling me lazy when, weak with illness, I begged her to bring me water. It took me half an hour to drag myself down the hallway for water. The jig was up when one day I fell unconscious with a very high fever, ....

Comment preview: My sister in law was a maid for the MGM Grand in LAs Vegas for years. Back in 99 she cleaned up a room filled with vomit. A few days later came the headaches and fever. She had bacterial meningitis (along with another maid who worked the same rooms). MGM h ....

Comment preview: Not a doctor but I have a situation where my self-diagnosis was spot on and the ER was wrong. I wrote about it a while back in another thread but basically I was running a 103 fever, splotchy, and knocking on death's door for a week. My tongue was bright r ....

Comment preview: Some people's immune system beat it during the fever stage, The fever breaks and they are fine the next day. They describe it as a bad case of the shits followed by a wicked flu. Once you get deep into the severe fever stage, you're pretty much done though ....

Comment preview: This also happened to my 23 month old. He was sick like every kid in his dayhome, fever, vomiting. This went on for about a week, so I took him to the medicentre and the doctor treated me like a typical overreacting first time mom and sent us home, " it's ....

Comment preview: I'd had the flu for a few days. It was the worst sickness I'd ever had. I was barfing and shitting hot liquid constantly + fever + headache. At one point I laid down on the couch, sprawled out, feeling miserable. My pants were missing. I felt a fart co ....

Comment preview: I wish sick people would do this **here**. I work in a small office, and one of the bosses came into work with a nasty cough, but claimed she "wasn't getting sick." Yeah, turns out she was getting sick with some nasty strain of the flu. Well, she's a manag ....

Comment preview: From experience working in a hospital, babies tend to not really show signs and symptoms of being sick, but they crash hard when their immune system loses the battle. In adults, we get the sniffles, fevers, a scratchy throat when we start to get sick. Our ....

Comment preview: When I was in the 2nd grade, a classmate of mine had a crush on me. Did what a lot of boys that age did to girls they liked, he teased and chased me. One day he chased me around the playground, and I was tired of it, so I kicked him in the crotch. He obv ....