dsi1 wrote:
> Dan Abel wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Omelet > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It's not killing any more people than the normal seasonal flu'!
>>> Please don't give in to media sensationalism. H1N1 is no big f-ing deal!
>>
>> Media sensationalism is not a good idea. We are not in a crisis. On
>> the other hand, it's serious. People in the US have already died, and
>> it's not even flu season yet. The normal seasonal flu mostly kills
>> the old and weak. H1N1, before the flu season has even hit, is
>> killing the young and healthy. So, it's not business as usual.
>>
>
> Last Saturday, my 18 year old son, who has caught one of these bugs,
> called me at 2:30 AM and said that he was experiencing hallucinations -
> he kept seeing a building with cut-away walls where the people inside
> kept following him, if they got too close to the edge they'd fall off.
>
> My 30 year old son, who also has the flu, tells me that he couldn't
> shake the idea out of his head that he was a cowboy riding the range and
> kept seeing a board game grid filled with jewels whenever he closed his
> eyes. He says he's not going to be playing video games for a while.
>
> This is the first time I've heard of such nutty goings on and my
> assumption is that this flu season could be an especially memorable one.
> My son said this was somewhat different from past illness in severity -
> the good thing is that the fever part seems to be over for both of them.
> They sure looked like hell though.

That's scary. Thanks for mentioning it though, because I am now
aware of that possibility.

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Jean B.