RiverDave
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There is a flu going around, and while I'd make it a standard practice to do your best to avoid it.. With this particular flu going around I'm going to tell you if anybody you know says they have it, had it, etc.. Sterilize anything they touched, and if they left anything at your house freakin burn it.
I think everybody has had the flu at one point in there life. You throw up a lot, you got the flu skin, the squirts de la hershey etc.. This was nothing like that. I can't even remember, but I think it was last wednesday (maybe thursday?) I had to run down to take some pics for Adrenaline. By the time I drove from my house the 3 miles to take the pics of the trailer, I was feeling pretty blah. By the time I took the three pictures I needed I was already breaking into sweats. The customer asked me if I wanted to go to the Launch Ramp with them, and I told him I didn't think I could. By the time I got home as the Aussies would say I was "proper fucked."
Now I want to be clear, I never threw up, hell I never even had toilet problems.. What I did have was crazy fevers, and sweats that you couldn't get if you were in a sauna.. Oh, and I forgot to mention an unbelievable amount of pain. Not just the achy pain / sick type shit. I'm talking it felt like something was attacking my joints, bones, muscles.. I could literally feel it moving around in my body. At some points walking was barely an option and slow deliberate movements like a 90 year old was the only option.
Friday I felt a little better being out in the sunshine and blood moving, and tried the age old "We'll finish this thing off with alcohol." (Don't laugh it has historically worked pretty well for me). Had some beers at the boat show, felt pretty normal, figured I'd wake up the next morning ready to conquer the world type shit. Everyone decided to go to Shoguns for dinner. By the time the cook showed up and started on the rice, I was already upside down and feeling like I was going to pass out. I can't even remember how I got home, but I think I took an uber or something. That night, and the subsequent days are about the sickest I have ever been in my whole life. No shit..
I've often wondered how sick someone would have to be to just "give up" and say "Fuck it I don't care if I live or die anymore." I'm not saying I was there, but I will say I completely understand how people get to that point now. I had a video completely edited on my phone and all I had to do was type in the title.. Literally just type in a title in text, and it took every ounce of concentration I had, and I still screwed up it, and that little effort, I basically broke into crazy sweats and passed out again for hours. Monumental tasks like going to get more water seemed like I was climbing Everest.
Freezing cold.. So fucking cold, for four days straight. At the boat show on Saturday I went and slept in my truck with the windows up and that was the only time I wasn't cold for about a half an hour. It was probably 120 in the truck if I had to guess, but it felt normal to me.
Yesterday I felt better (that's a very relative term as it turns out), and I had a Doctors appointment for a general check up. I have Dr. Sodiqi (spelling?) here in Havasu, he's probably the best the town has. (really smart guy / super nice etc.) He's a younger guy and completely in shape. I told him I had the flu, and he walked right out and came back in with a face mask. He said that awhile back he had walked into one of his exam rooms, and a person had coughed right as he had walked in. Just the presence in the air of the room he had caught this flu. In less than 72 hours he was home sick, and he had lost the use of his LEGS!! Straight up PARALYSIS for 3/4 days! Said this is the worst one he had ever seen etc... Stacy was looking kind of "shocked" by what he was saying, and I was thinking "I could totally see that.. The pain was unreal."
They say Gout is about the only thing that is comparable to child birth in terms of pain. I've had gout several times (especially when I was younger). Gout is no joke, most miserable thing I've ever had, and completely debilitating. I'd take Gout every day of the week and twice on Sunday compared to what this shit was attacking my joints etc..
Anyhow the point I'm making is, if you see someone that looks like shit, stay the F away. Go wash your hands, put on one of those little painters masks like the Asians do in the subway.. Screw it buy a body condom and wear it if you have too. You don't want this flu, I can promise you that.
Feeling like I do right now on a normal day, I'd say "I probably wouldn't go to work today" working a normal job. Feeling like I do right now coming from where I just came from, I feel like Dancing with the stars.. Granted I'd probably just hobble my ass out onto the dance floor and then pass out from lack of energy.
RD <------ feeling better
I think everybody has had the flu at one point in there life. You throw up a lot, you got the flu skin, the squirts de la hershey etc.. This was nothing like that. I can't even remember, but I think it was last wednesday (maybe thursday?) I had to run down to take some pics for Adrenaline. By the time I drove from my house the 3 miles to take the pics of the trailer, I was feeling pretty blah. By the time I took the three pictures I needed I was already breaking into sweats. The customer asked me if I wanted to go to the Launch Ramp with them, and I told him I didn't think I could. By the time I got home as the Aussies would say I was "proper fucked."
Now I want to be clear, I never threw up, hell I never even had toilet problems.. What I did have was crazy fevers, and sweats that you couldn't get if you were in a sauna.. Oh, and I forgot to mention an unbelievable amount of pain. Not just the achy pain / sick type shit. I'm talking it felt like something was attacking my joints, bones, muscles.. I could literally feel it moving around in my body. At some points walking was barely an option and slow deliberate movements like a 90 year old was the only option.
Friday I felt a little better being out in the sunshine and blood moving, and tried the age old "We'll finish this thing off with alcohol." (Don't laugh it has historically worked pretty well for me). Had some beers at the boat show, felt pretty normal, figured I'd wake up the next morning ready to conquer the world type shit. Everyone decided to go to Shoguns for dinner. By the time the cook showed up and started on the rice, I was already upside down and feeling like I was going to pass out. I can't even remember how I got home, but I think I took an uber or something. That night, and the subsequent days are about the sickest I have ever been in my whole life. No shit..
I've often wondered how sick someone would have to be to just "give up" and say "Fuck it I don't care if I live or die anymore." I'm not saying I was there, but I will say I completely understand how people get to that point now. I had a video completely edited on my phone and all I had to do was type in the title.. Literally just type in a title in text, and it took every ounce of concentration I had, and I still screwed up it, and that little effort, I basically broke into crazy sweats and passed out again for hours. Monumental tasks like going to get more water seemed like I was climbing Everest.
Freezing cold.. So fucking cold, for four days straight. At the boat show on Saturday I went and slept in my truck with the windows up and that was the only time I wasn't cold for about a half an hour. It was probably 120 in the truck if I had to guess, but it felt normal to me.
Yesterday I felt better (that's a very relative term as it turns out), and I had a Doctors appointment for a general check up. I have Dr. Sodiqi (spelling?) here in Havasu, he's probably the best the town has. (really smart guy / super nice etc.) He's a younger guy and completely in shape. I told him I had the flu, and he walked right out and came back in with a face mask. He said that awhile back he had walked into one of his exam rooms, and a person had coughed right as he had walked in. Just the presence in the air of the room he had caught this flu. In less than 72 hours he was home sick, and he had lost the use of his LEGS!! Straight up PARALYSIS for 3/4 days! Said this is the worst one he had ever seen etc... Stacy was looking kind of "shocked" by what he was saying, and I was thinking "I could totally see that.. The pain was unreal."
They say Gout is about the only thing that is comparable to child birth in terms of pain. I've had gout several times (especially when I was younger). Gout is no joke, most miserable thing I've ever had, and completely debilitating. I'd take Gout every day of the week and twice on Sunday compared to what this shit was attacking my joints etc..
Anyhow the point I'm making is, if you see someone that looks like shit, stay the F away. Go wash your hands, put on one of those little painters masks like the Asians do in the subway.. Screw it buy a body condom and wear it if you have too. You don't want this flu, I can promise you that.
Feeling like I do right now on a normal day, I'd say "I probably wouldn't go to work today" working a normal job. Feeling like I do right now coming from where I just came from, I feel like Dancing with the stars.. Granted I'd probably just hobble my ass out onto the dance floor and then pass out from lack of energy.
RD <------ feeling better
