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So last Tuesday, I woke up with rosy red cheeks, some major aches, and a raging headache. Allergies, I said. But as I was due to get on a plane Wednesday, I thought I better go check it out. You guessed it – I had the flu (and no, I didn’t get flu shot this year. I never do. I am too arrogant, so convinced of my super-human health that I laugh in the face of flu shots. Lesson learned).
I came home and collapsed onto my bed to begin my pity party. You know the stages of flu, right? 1. Denial. 2. Anger. 3. Bargaining with God 4. Depression, and 5. Acceptance. I reached stage V pretty quick because I felt so bad, even with the Tamiflu and codeine-coated cough pills. I couldn’t work or read–too much effort! So I turned on the TV, and made the first of many mistakes for the week: I tossed my remote across the room and onto a couch. In other words, not in easy reach.
The channel that came up was Bravo. Bravo was running back-to-back episodes of the Shahs of Sunset. Have you ever seen this? Me either, and you guys know I watch trash TV. It’s about a bunch of rich Persians who live in L.A. They talk about each other and how they have each others’ back when they really don’t. But here is the tragedy: It was horrible, and I did not have the strength to reach for my remote. All day, I would doze in and out, and when I came to, there they were, arguing.
The next day, my mother came with chicken soup and a tub of jello (a big tub). Enough to have shared with the entire surgery ward at the local hospital. My mother subscribes to the theory that when one is sick, one should rest, and one should not watch TV. She turned it off. Boy, did I sleep. But I dreamed about Persians. I really did!
The next day, my mother determined I would live and she went home to care for my stepfather. I had the remote in close reach because I was still lethargic and tired and feverish. I began to flip through channels. I never watch TV during the day. Now I know why. Now I know why my parents all have FOX or CNN blaring 24/7. The pickings were so slim: talk shows by people I’ve never heard of, Dr. Phil who spends a lot of time promoting his book and his son’s publishing company, dancing or cheerleader mothers. Occasionally, Honey Boo-boo would swing across the bottom on a giant wrecking ball. I began to miss the Persians. I finally landed on HGTV Love it or List it, dozing on an off to the sound of renovations playing soothingly in the background.
I have almost fully recovered from the flu, thank you. And next year, I will get my flu shot. Because I can’t be subjected to a full day of arguing Persians again.
What is the WORST TV you have ever sat through and why? What’s your choice of activity when on your death bed? (and yes, I did read. I read a lot, because 24 hours is a very long time when you have nothing to do). Did you get your flu shot?
83 Comments on “The Flu: In Which I Discover the Horrors of Daytime TV”
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The worst tv I sat through was cartoons when I was younger. We had cable tv and there was a Star Trek (Original Series) marathon on and darn it I wanted to watch it because it was interesting! Last year I swear that I was on my death bed when I had a cold that turned into a chest infection that then turned into whooping cough and I took over the television and watched television shows that I loved years ago. I also read, Facebooked a bit and generally coughed, hacked and felt miserable. Gamer Dude tried to make me feel better but darn it I was sick, only death was going to make me feel better at that moment. I did get better though (strange about that) but couldn’t get the flu shot because I was sick at the time that they were giving them – go figure!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:09 am.
Happy Birthday, Kelly!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:33 am.
Happy Birthday!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:36 am.
Happy birthday, Kelly!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:44 am.
Happy happy birthday!!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:36 am.
Have a happy day, Kelly!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:25 pm.
Enjoy your special day, Kelly.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:07 pm.
Happy Birthday!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:34 pm.
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, Kelly! Hope you had a day filled with all of the people and things you love!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:22 pm.
Firstly I’m gld you are on the mend. Secondly I fell asleep during a spongebob squarepants marathon. I don’t care if he lives in a pineapple under the sea, the sound of that laugh brings the same response from me as it does from squidworth (yeah, it’s so sad that I know the freaking names) Same situation, sickly.
If I’m sick, I want to sleep. If I don’t want to sleep, I’m well enough to go to work. Thems the rules in the Pesky house. You think yourself well you will be well. and Go to work (school) it’ll take your mind off of it, you’ll feel better.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:18 am.
Well hello, Mother. Parading about here as Pesky, are you?
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:37 am.
LOL nah, I don’t think you should do that. You should get well at your own pace.
That’s what MY mother used to tell me. And being of strong and stoopid stock I did and I do. We are NOT going to talk about the fact the past two weeks my BP has been at stroke level and I’m going to work to get my mind off of it while the dr’s figure out why
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:47 pm.
Holding up my hand. The Shahs of Sunset. Can’t deny it. The Housewives of whatever. Got another for you. Mob Wives. Haven’t seen it? It’s on VH1. There’s a few others too but those are the ones I mainly watch.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:59 am.
Weeelll, I have been known to watch some real housewives, but the shahs completely turned me off. Fortunately, my memory of them is very hazy now
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:38 am.
I’m diabetic type 2 and my doctor doesn’t give me a choice about the flu shot. In 2011, I got a flu shot in one arm, pneumonia shot in the other at the count of three. I left with a prescription for the shingles vaccine. I think I’m covered for everything. I watch very little daytime TV unless it is reruns of NCIS, HGTV, or Turner Classic Movies. If I’m sick I usually sleep or read.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:22 am.
I see a doctor once a year, and she’s an OB GYN. In fact, I went to a clinic because I don’t have a primary care physician. This is not the result of my fantasy of being super human. It is the result of really bad insurance
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:40 am.
I must watch Shahs of Sunset so I can be in the know. Traveling with colleagues last week, the most manic of the bunch was dubbed Coconut after the SofS dog who walks to the left. DVR set!
Sorry you were feelin’ poorly, ma’am.
Deathbed is all about TV, head usually too funky to read or focus. Even the trusty iPad can’t give me comfort.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:25 am.
That’s the way I am! Too sick to care about anything, but not sick enough that I can’t still whine about everything.
I am a horrible patient.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:40 am.
I miss Phil Donahue! his trashy tv talk show was the best!
When I’m sick- which thankfully doesn’t happen too often, I’ll pop in my dvd collection of Big Bang Theory seasons.
I have asthma, so flu shots are mandatory( and free in Canada). Before flu shots, any cold for me became severe viral bronchitis or pneumonia. not fun at all.
The worst tv I had to sit through is any Housewives franchise. location unimportant, they are all the same vapid, plasticised, over indulged, back stabbing witches. good times.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:33 am.
Why, that sounds remarkably like the shahs!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:41 am.
Glad you’re feeling better, Julia. I got my flu shot a while back. DH & I get one every year.
I’m retired and home all day, but I don’t really turn on the TV at all; I read. But when I do watch, it’s HGTV; NCIS or any of the Law and Order shows. The worst TV I ever watched was probably Sponge Bob or Fairly Odd Parents with the grandkids. I shudder even now; years later, thinking about that!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:41 am.
I love me some Law and Order shows. I am slowly working on SVU and Criminal Intent along with CSI (I plan to get all of the seasons of all three series). Thanks for the birthday wishes Sue!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:06 am.
I admit it. Spongebob makes me laugh.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:41 am.
I’m glad you’re recovered. I did get my flu shot, although they are saying around here the flu that’s going around isn’t the one covered by the shot this year. I know several people who’ve gotten it who had the shot.
I usually only turn on the TV for something specific. However IV is king of finding the worst movie on television at a particular time and then watching it. Not too long ago I actually sat through a good portion of a HUGE spider attacking a small desert town, in B & W. And yes, I dreamed about that.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:46 am.
Eeeewwwee! Thank God the viking wasn’t anywhere near my TV
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:42 am.
I did get my shot, but I know about 10 folks at work that also got it and then got the flu…. I’ve become increasingly OCD about germs lately, too. They’re saying the strain in the vaccine is not the same strain that is going around. They have to guess before flu season to create the vaccine and I guess they were wrong this year.
The worst TV I have sat through is Family Guy. Oh, how I despise that show. The hub and kids LOVE it. I thought Homer was stupid and married up…Pitabread (that’s what I call him-haha) is an utter moron, and Giggity boy takes pervy grossness to a completely different level. I absolutely abhor it. And, I like silly humor–I like The Water Boy, I like Grown Ups, I like Monty Python, I like Bill and Ted, I like Wayne’s World…. Because the hub and kids like Family Guy, it’s on a lot, and the more it’s on, the more I hate it. <:(
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:23 am.
If I’m stuck at home because I’m sick, the TV usually stays on Food Network or on HGTV until GH comes on, and I’ll watch that.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:24 am.
And you really can’t go wrong with HGTV
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:44 am.
I have not seen Family Guy. I must be only left in America who hasn’t
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:43 am.
You aren’t the only one, I haven’t either.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:13 am.
DD#1 had it on the other day and I couldn’t wait until it was over. Won’t be voluntarily watching that one again.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:31 pm.
You aren’t missing a THING………..trust me.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:04 pm.
You’re not missing out. I put my foot down with Family Guy. It’s horrendous.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:00 pm.
Saw clips for the S of Sunset while watching Housewives of Bev Hills (you reap what you sow) and almost turned the TV off right there. Train. Wreck.
I got the flu shot once, fifteen years ago, and came down with a nasty flu two days later. It put me off the flu shot. I may get one next year. We’ll see.
When sick: TV, sleeping, reading, TV, sleeping, reading. Reading is so exhausting when you’re sick. It’s hard to read when you can’t keep your eyes open.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:57 am.
I know! And if you have a fever, you can only lay there and inquire of your mother, “why me?”
Seriously – I am a bad patient.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:45 am.
The only good patients are the ones who sleep for 20 hours a day. Being sick is agony.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:39 am.
I am so sorry you’ve been sick. Hope all is well now. I did get a flu shot, but only after watching all three grandkids suffer through bouts of the nastiness.
I don’t watch daytime TV. I’m sure if I did, it would be the History or Military channels. I’d rather read and work crossword puzzles.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:05 am.
I am feeling much much better, LSU. Thinking of trying a little jog this morning. We’ll see
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Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:45 am.
Ugh….luckily we have (knock on wood) avoided the flu at the office thus far this season. That could be attributed in part to the massive amounts of Lysol spray, Clorox wipes, hand sanitizers, etc. that is used.
I’m allergic to eggs–so that would be a case of the cure being MUCH worse than the illness. I did get a dose of daytime TV a couple of months ago when I was home. Not good. I stuck with HGTV and the Food Network out of pure self preservation after a while. But it’s more background noise when I’m sick. Sleeping or reading usually wins out.
Glad you’re feeling better–and you have an AWESOME Mama!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:58 am.
Thanks Haley. And yes, my mother is pretty darn awesome. That tub of jello notwithstanding.
When I was a kid, we got 7-up and crackers for upset stomachs, Vicks Vapor rub on chests and feet. She also boiled it and made us lean over the boiling pan with a towel over our heads and breathe it in.
Tomato soup was a staple sick food, as was jello. I now associate jello with surgery. Not sure why.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:05 am.
Being sick, pardon the expression, sucks big hairy donkey balls, especially if it’s the flu. Glad you are feeling better now. I have gotten the flu shot the last 2 years ONLY because my husband as a pharmacist was required by his company to become certified to give them out. So he brought it home and gave it to me in the kitchen :p Seriously. Before that, too much darn trouble. That said I also hadn’t had the flu since I was a teenager.
Trash tv: uhm, I tend to avoid the REALLY bad stuff, but I’ve got a secret addiction to Gatorboys and Duck Dynasty. Now Gatorboys has Paul, hottie AND double Ironman at the helm. Can’t go wrong with a bit of eye candy right? Duck Dynasty is just hilarious in general.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:12 am.
I have not seen either of these! I’m all for shows with hotties.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:31 pm.
First and foremost, I’m glad you are feeling better. It’s nice that you have a great mom to come and help out.
The worst television I’ve sat through? Hands down some hunting show where a guy sits in a treestand, waiting and whispering until some unlucky creature walks through. Pull my hair out. Why did I watch it? My father was visiting and this is what he likes. When asked if I want to watch something else I sigh and shake my head. Then I reach for a good book. Or recline back and take a nap.
When I’m sick I watch television, or try to read. If its television I try to put on funny shows so I don’t have that fever induced nightmare that takes years to go away. Give me some Golden Girls, Reba, or Sex and the City. No, I didn’t get the flu shot, and I’ve been trying to fight off something for two days now. Ugh.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:35 am.
Kelly, the flu hit me hard and fast. I never felt a thing until that fever hit. So maybe yours really is allergies. Here’s hoping
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:32 pm.
Husband got the flu shot and I didn’t. I have such a severe panic/anxiety that when I go to the Dr. it causes a major panic episode. So, when the doc saw me a few months ago he said, “Maybe, we won’t give you the shot since you are already so panicked.” Then proceeded to tell me that I can go with the “herd mentality”… that if everyone around me gets the shot it could protect me. But the 1st thing I pictured was me being the weakest gazelle that the flu-ridden-lion kills first. So hand sanitizer and not leaving the home has kinda became an OCD thing.
I think I have seen every trashy tv show on. The latest being Buckwild on MTV. It’s filmed near where I live and it is so wondrously awful and hellarious… I know hundreds of my brain cells die each time I watch it.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:12 pm.
Next time you see your doctor, tell him the herd mentality does. not. work.
I haven’t heard of Buckwild, either. Gotta check these shows out!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:33 pm.
Where do you live? I’m outside of Huntington. I didn’t watch Buckwild, because of what I heard on the news about it. I really don’t think we need that kind of publicity in WV. Even the redneck people I know aren’t like that.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:00 pm.
Wash hand, wash hands, wash hands—that is my flu shot. It got me through raising two boys who brought home all kinds of things. I am amazed they didn’t kill me with their germs.
When I am sick I sleep. When I’m not sleeping I just drift. Even television holds no interest. As for daytime TV, I was raised by a man who thought the T.V. was the devil’s work, and watching at night was a sin. Daytime T.V. was enough to be exiled from the family. So I never watch it, and it bugs me if someone in the house does.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:27 pm.
When I was a kid, TV was still in the dinosaur ages and there was nothing but soaps on during the day.
Your father sounds interesting, Madeline. Do you mean it bugs you if someone is watching TV in your house always? Or just when you’re sick? Because I feel like I need to prepare you for the first grandchild and how TV will become a necessary part of your life
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:36 pm.
Daytime TV bugs me, not all TV, but there is a guilt factor in all of it. I had to get used to it when I had kids, because I sure did not want to be the main entertainment, but it still bothered me and still does. For one thing, it is just too much noise to me. But I can see my father giving The Look, and muttering about the idiot box. Thank heavens he is not around to see what it has become. Soaps were Shakespeare in comparison. It would dismay him. Utterly confound him that even a sick person would watch the garbage on in the daytime in particular. To his mind, who would choose TV over a book? No one!!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:21 pm.
Madeline, my dad–until I was in my 20s–still asked me to cover my eyes in kissing scenes in movies. Even AFTER I was married. So, nighttime TV was out–especially HBO!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:39 pm.
I got my flu and pneumonia shots. Had pneumonia twice last year despite the shot. Can’t get the shingles shot because I’ve already had shingles. At least I think that’s what the doc told me. When I’m sick, I mostly sleep with music on in the background for those spells when I wake up. When I’m slept out, I read for as long as a book holds my attention.
I think I’m the only one on TGB that doesn’t watch HGTV. I have nothing to decorate except the girl’s rented half-duplex, so the show would only frustrate me. Never have watched any Shahs or Housewives, either. But one show I did watch that drove me crazy was the first few episodes of American Idol. Was like watching a train wreck. Now I wait until the final ten or so.
Glad you’re better Julia. The flu is rough.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:43 pm.
Donna, it really is. We tend to forget how rough because I suspect most of us here don’t get it very often.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:04 pm.
I’m for DVD marathons when I’m sick.. and books.
I think the arguing Persians would send me into a relapse. Honey BooBoo would put me into the ER.
If I had known the remote was out of your reach, I would have driven down to your house and saved you.
No, I did not get a flu shot and have not in years. The year I did get one, I was sick as a dog. While this logic may not be sound for continuing to avoid them, it’s how my brain works.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:01 pm.
that remote was so close, yet so far… If only my dog would earn his keep. You know, fetch something now and then.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:04 pm.
Daytime TV is disgusting! When I had my hysterectomy some years ago, I ended up watching way too much of that crap. I think it was totally out of desperation that I pushed myself to go back to work after four weeks. I’m convinced that the awful TV was the impetus!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:02 pm.
Yep, connie, it is pretty bad. Especially when you know there is a real world out there, steadily marching past you while you’re incapacitated. It’s adding salt to the daytime TV wound.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:06 pm.
Glad you are feeling better!
I had the flu last month and it knocked me for a loop. I didn’t want to do anything, even lifting my head off the pillow seemed like too much effort. Luckily my husband was able to stay home and look after the kids. That allowed me to just stay in bed. I slept most of the time.
The worst tv that I have watched has to be Honey boo boo. I was curious about it because I was hearing about it everywhere, but had never seen it. I watched all of 5 minutes and that was enough. Toddlers and Tiaras is another show I can’t stand. My husband has a Duck Dynasty addiction and I very much try to avoid the tv room when he has it on.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:17 pm.
I can’t do Honey Boo Boo, either. I have seen toddlers and tiaras a couple of times, but no. Me no likey
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:58 pm.
Glad to hear you are getting better. My flu shot is extra vitamin C and zinc. I hate being sick and find my back starts hurting when I lay around too much. I try to get back on my feet asap.
Worst TV – Honey Boo Boo and Swamp People. I happened to be flipping through channels and came across it. I just got sucked in – now I just cringe.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:35 pm.
I hate being sick, too!!!
Have not seen Swamp People. Pretty sure I don’t want to. Sounds as bad as Persians fighting.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:59 pm.
With the flu, I look for some season of America’s Next Top Model.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:46 pm.
That would have been excellent
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:31 pm.
I’m so glad you’re feeling better, Julia!
I got my flu shot in October, then caught an awful stomach flu (not covered by flu shot). I tend to keep the tv on during the day for background noise, and once by mistake (thinking it might be some obscure Western) I turned on the Shahs of Sunset. Never again.
But I have learned all about murder-for-hire schemes that don’t work, ways to prepare mulch, and how close you can get to a leopard before it tries to kill you.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:49 pm.
It’s kind of amazing, the things you can learn by lying comotose in front of a TV
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:32 pm.
I sleep when I am sick. And sleep. And sleep. And sleep. My college room mate was not aware of this the year I got the flu at school. I woke up just in time to see her dialing 911. She was scare spitless because I hadn’t moved all day and she wasn’t sure that I was even breathing (her words). She had even called her mother, a nurse, to see what she should do. After I let her know that I usually slept my way through illness, she was better with it.
Daytime TV?? *Shudders* That’s what the DVD player is for!!!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:03 pm.
BTW, I got my flu shot in November. However, there is something NASTY going around here and both of my parents have it. I am wearing face masks at home, washing my hands like an OCD patient and gulping Vitamin C like it was going out of style.
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, sent the post card. Don’t want to repeat the experience!!!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:07 pm.
I have heard this a lot from people. That they got flu shots, but got the kind that isn’t covered by the flu shot. UGH
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:32 pm.
That’s the opposite that I’ve read. I read that they got the 3 strains right, but since less than 40% of Americans are vaccinated against the flu, it’s not going to help 60% of Americans.
My kids and I got vaccinated, but my dh never did. He got really, really sick, where the codeine cough syrup didn’t work. He ended up with bronchitis. While none of us got sick. My daughter and I are high risk with asthma. I got the pneumonia shot this year, which is the MOST painful shot I’ve ever received.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:13 pm.
I didn’t even know you could get shot for pneumonia.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:45 pm.
I watch Snapped and City Confidential. I have seen the Shahs, and I don’t care for it. I don’t know if it’s all for television, but the seem a very contentious bunch.
Worst TV show–Bad Girls Club.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:16 pm.
Oh, I do like me some Snapped.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:45 pm.
I go to bed when I get sick. I’m either reading or falling asleep. I always recover faster than the Animation Guy, who NEVER rests when he’s sick. It takes forever for him to recover, and then, he gets sick easily for the next 6 months. I’m wondering what’s coming after the bronchitis that he’s already had this flu season when he got the flu. The 3 of us who were vaccinated are enjoying our good health.
As for worst tv, I try to avoid most tv. Sponge Bob is up there. There are other animated shows that the Animation Guy has tried to get me to watch, and I just tend to get up and leave when it’s intolerable. He finds some pretty spectacular bad nonfiction tv that should really be better than it is.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:20 pm.
I’m glad to hear that you’re getting better! The flu is awful. I don’t get flu shots, either. I never have, and I likely never will. I’m fine with my body fighting off the necessary yearly colds, etc. on its own. It might suck, but I’d rather do that than take shots for it.
Thankfully I don’t have to worry about daytime TV, as I’m a stay-at-home mom and I spend my days watching Sesame Street, Little Einsteins, and Mickey Mouse. Though if I had to watch TV during the day, I’d most likely watch HGTV or The Food Network. Though I have to admit that I despise commercials. If I had the choice, I’d either have a movie marathon or I’d watch the shows that I’ve got on my PVR.
The worst shows I’ve watched? Oh goodness, there’s too many to count. What on earth are they putting on TLC lately? I thought it was supposed to be the Learning Network? I would NEVER subject myself to Honey BooBoo or Toddlers In Tiaras or any such show. The only talk-show that I watch is Ellen… the others are ridiculous, sorry to say.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:41 pm.
There are so many talk shows now that its crazy. And I’ve never heard of these people. I keep wondering, why do we care what you think? But then, I thought that a lot about Oprah too. I know, sacrilege
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:47 pm.
Actually, I never cared for Oprah. My mom was really into her show, but I could never get into it. And you’re right. I think that there are too many talk shows. Half the people I don’t know, and I don’t know why anyone would care about their opinions. Then there are the trashy ones that have the same ‘topic’ every day… like “who’s my baby’s daddy?” and “is he really cheating?” Ug. Sooo bad.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:54 pm.
Glad you are feeling better! No one should have to suffer through whining, back-stabbing, squabbling Persians. Isn’t that in the Geneva convention regs somewhere?
I never get a flu shot. Like you, I keep thinking my horse-like constitution will prevail and I pay a small fortune each month for really crappy insurance.
However, two years ago I had no choice but to go to a “doc-in-a-box” as I could not breathe. To top it all off it was my birthday. The doctor diagnosed pneumonia in both lungs and threatened to put me in the hospital. Of course, whining about my really needed to go back to work might have influenced him. So I promised him I would spend and entire week in bed, went by work to fill out the paperwork for my week of sick leave and stumbled home after a shot in each hip with a supply of crackers, chicken noodle soup, kleenex, ginger ale and assorted drugs. I don’t have television at my house, not since the switch to digital, but I have a monstrous DVD collection. When I wasn’t watching a BBC period drama, an entire season of the Simpsons, seasons of CSI (Vegas version only) or seasons of Crimnal Minds I was reading. I reread the entire James Herriot collection and then started on historical romance novels. I slept. I ate. I dozed in front of the television and I read. And after reading everyone’s responses I am really glad I don’t have television at my house. Sheesh!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:32 pm.
I get the flu every year as my doctor recommends it. I got my shot in October, got the flu the week after Thanksgiving. I got prescription for Tamiflu, very thick cough syrup, & ordered not to go back to work until the following Monday. I slept a lot and was very tired. It took me weeks to fully recover. Glad to know you are better.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:43 pm.
*should read, I get the flu shot every year.
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:44 pm.
The worst TV I’ve watched…first season of Jersey Shore. My then husband would be watching it and I would say that I was losing IQ points by the minute and leave the room. Given his taste in TV (and well, the other women), it’s a wonder we didn’t stay married.
Hope you are 100% better!
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:41 pm.
When I am at death’s door I pop in a DVD of some of my favourite movies. I don’t have to concentrate or think – just enjoy.
No flu shots here. They make me ill. Catch 22 situation.
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 4:01 am.
I never get a flu shot and don’t have insurance. I don’t watch Family Guy, but my tastes veer towards Looney Tunes and not more vulgar, newer cartoons. I think the Big Bang theory is the stupidest show ever. I tried to watch it during the first season expecting something smart because it was about rocket scientists or whatever, but hated it.
When I don’t feel good (or get enough sleep) I just watch T.V. I like H.G.T.V., especially House Hunters. I don’t watch trashy reality shows, but sometimes I watch some of Baggage on G.S.N. For reality I like Extreme Couponers or Extreme Cheapskates, stuff like that. I love Once Upon a Time and other dramas like the Lying Game. I watch sitcoms on the Disney Channel because I’m a big kid. They’re not vulgar like other ones and make me feel good.
I read when I feel good and not so much when I don’t or when I don’t get enough sleep.
Speaking of weird dreams, I had one when I saw part of Inception. It was like the movie with the walls moving around, etc. Never finished watching it. I got it from the library.
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:19 pm.
I did get the flu shot, have for the last 25 years and never get the flu. I had an elderly Mom to care for so I could not get sick. When I have a Ulcertive colitis flare up I am bed ridden, I read first and then will watch old DVD’s, I just cannot abide any TV, I think it lowers our intelligence! Glad your feeling better. These days I have Netflix on my computer so in between reading will watch classics on Netflix.
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:11 pm.