Between writing this post and it going live on the interwebs I might have died...but it's unlikely.

- Me -

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The last time I was sick was in mid-2021; I'd flown to Brisbane for work and after a week of so was due to fly home on the Friday night...but my flight was shifted to the Saturday morning. The day after I got home I got Covid-19. I blame the change in flights because had I flown on Friday night I probably wouldn't have run into the filthy disease carrying fucker who passed Covid-19 to me. Ok, that's probably not the case but I'm sticking to that premise. Anyway, I got sick again last week.

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Dying but not quite dead

I got a terrible case of man-flu, the worst illness known to humankind.

I was on my death bed, mere minutes from expiring completely and going to hell, in agonising pain and abject misery. Everyone knows that man-flu is the worst illness a person can have...nothing comes close and I had the worst case ever!

Believe me? Well, if you're a bloke you will and if you're a woman...well, you're probably rolling your eyes and feeling no sympathy at all.

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If I'm honest I wasn't that sick at all; I had a bit of a head cold and a scratchy throat and I went to work and did all the other things I'd normally do. Also, if I'm honest, I used the opportunity to gain some sympathy and some nursing from my partner...what good is having man-flu if one doesn't make out it's way worse than it is in a bid to get some nursing action...my partner might even have a special nurses outfit for just this occasion...I'll not be showing any photos though. 😉

There's some who might wish I'd have died, (sorry to disappoint), but there was really no chance of that happening; I took some Demazin pills and sucked on some Difflam lozenges and no further man-flu mitigation treatments were needed. Due to a medical condition I have my immune system functions sub-optimally and I tend to be more susceptible to illness like this and get them a little worse as my immune system no longer fights as hard as it used to. It's a complication I have to be mindful of and I take steps to work around it but generally when I get sick I don't die. (I have died a few times though, but came good after a while.)

It's been over three years since I've been sick and it came at a time I least wanted it to considering some other things I've recently been doing but whilst sick, at least I'm not dead.

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How about you? Have you ever had the worst illness known to humankind, man-flu? Have you ever been so sick that you died? Do you have any home remedies for the common cold and flu symptoms? Have you ever had to nurse a man with man-flu? Feel free to comment if you'd like.