ManFlu

[bathstoke]

I'm not well. Ok, it's not ManFlu, but this bug has been brewing for weeks & has finally unleashed itself on half term week(typical) I could have blagged myself a few days off work(which I V rarely do)if I'd not been off anyway.
When was the last time you copped a sickie for manflu, wineflu or any other ailment(ale-ment!?!)

[chuffedstokie]

Suffered with the dreaded hangover flu a few times. Going back a while now, but a nastier affliction you'd be hard pressed to find. Directly linked to playing hockey on a Sunday and overindulgence immediately after.

[Deleted]

Think it was about 1982/83

My mum and dad away on holiday...Long standing girlfriend staying with me .....rang the boss to say I wouldn't be in today as I'd been sick and had the shits
He said I'd best get ready straight away and get work or I'd have to have the week off with no pay

I ended up skint but what a great week

Taught me a lessons I suppose. 5yrs before I had another day off after that

[bathstoke]

Oct 26, 2016 12:00:51 GMT chuffedstokie said:

Suffered with the dreaded hangover flu a few times. Going back a while now, but a nastier affliction you'd be hard pressed to find. Directly linked to playing hockey on a Sunday and overindulgence immediately after.

Arrh, the old replenishing the electrolytes trick...

[Deleted]

1999 i did have the flu, couldn't stand up and when i did felt like i was going to faint.

[bathstoke]

Oct 26, 2016 12:01:51 GMT @marymoistspongeberry said:

Think it was about 1982/83

My mum and dad away on holiday...Long standing girlfriend staying with me .....rang the boss to say I wouldn't be in today as I'd been sick and had the shits
He said I'd best get ready straight away and get work or I'd have to have the week off with no pay

I ended up skint but what a great week

Taught me a lessons I suppose. 5yrs before I had another day off after that

He sounds a right cnut, what was your job at the time...

[salopstick]

Take a day off all the time for flu. One day in bed in the early stages is better than longer

I always go in first and make everyone aware I'm ill. Easy to have the time off then

[eddyclamp]

Since I started with the flu jab , touch wood , have had no trouble at all . In fact I had another jab this week.

[GeneralFaye]

Must be going around, ive had a brutal case of the shits for a few days. Still went into work like a trooper though.

[Deleted]

Oct 26, 2016 12:18:23 GMT GeneralFaye said:

Must be going around, ive had a brutal case of the shits for a few days. Still went into work like a trooper though.

Try not to have time off myself too, i just suffer. Sometimes it's better to work to take your mind off it and get away from the nagging wife who thinks your faking it.

My achilles heal seems to be trapped nerves in neck and lower back. The agony working with them is horrific sometimes, especially when i can barely stand and am using my hands to walk to take the pressure away. What can my boss do, i either take weeks off or struggle on. I obviously arent capable of getting as much wotk done, but i reckon i annoy him more when i need a hand to lift something which isn't heavy. I tend to suffer for weeks and months too. I probably need a scan to find the cause of the problem, but the doctor just says take paracetamol and ibrufen.

[Northy]

Oct 26, 2016 12:09:14 GMT bathstoke said:

Oct 26, 2016 12:01:51 GMT @marymoistspongeberry said:

Think it was about 1982/83

My mum and dad away on holiday...Long standing girlfriend staying with me .....rang the boss to say I wouldn't be in today as I'd been sick and had the shits
He said I'd best get ready straight away and get work or I'd have to have the week off with no pay

I ended up skint but what a great week

Taught me a lessons I suppose. 5yrs before I had another day off after that

He sounds a right cnut, what was your job at the time...

he was self employed

[Deleted]

Oct 26, 2016 12:09:14 GMT bathstoke said:

Oct 26, 2016 12:01:51 GMT @marymoistspongeberry said:

Think it was about 1982/83

My mum and dad away on holiday...Long standing girlfriend staying with me .....rang the boss to say I wouldn't be in today as I'd been sick and had the shits
He said I'd best get ready straight away and get work or I'd have to have the week off with no pay

I ended up skint but what a great week

Taught me a lessons I suppose. 5yrs before I had another day off after that

He sounds a right cnut, what was your job at the time...

Apprentice plasterer.

No. he was like a dad to me mate. Stood for no bullshit tho.

[Northy]

Oct 26, 2016 12:18:23 GMT GeneralFaye said:

Must be going around, ive had a brutal case of the shits for a few days. Still went into work like a trooper though.

i got real bad stomach cramps last week driving back up from stevenage, didnt get the shits though, lasted a day and didnt feel too good for a couple of days either.

[bathstoke]

Oct 26, 2016 12:47:54 GMT Northy said:

Oct 26, 2016 12:09:14 GMT bathstoke said:

He sounds a right cnut, what was your job at the time...

he was self employed

Id loved to have witnessed that conversation. Tuppence on the phone to himself, asking if he can have the day off, with his girlfriend lying naked in a nubile frenzy! Proper Madness...I wonder what became of her!?!

[Northy]

Oct 26, 2016 12:57:14 GMT bathstoke said:

Oct 26, 2016 12:47:54 GMT Northy said:

he was self employed

Id loved to have witnessed that conversation. Tuppence on the phone to himself, asking if he can have the day off, with his girlfriend lying naked in a nubile frenzy! Proper Madness...I wonder what became of her!?!

She ran off with somebody with a bigger hod

[Deleted]

Oct 26, 2016 12:57:14 GMT bathstoke said:

Oct 26, 2016 12:47:54 GMT Northy said:

he was self employed

Id loved to have witnessed that conversation. Tuppence on the phone to himself, asking if he can have the day off, with his girlfriend lying naked in a nubile frenzy! Proper Madness...I wonder what became of her!?!

Caught her with another youth....we split up....I had the last laugh and went with her mate straight after.

Lucky escape....she had loads of kids......dirty dirty girl

[pearo]

I'm a Longton lad, we don't do flu !!!!!

[lawrieleslie]

Last one I had was my first year at college I work at which was 2008. I was off for ten days. I believe that I have slowly built up natural immunities, over the intervening years, to much of the stuff that wings its way around the staff every year. Have the occasional head cold but nothing to have time off for.

[Linx]

Back in February I had to take three days off with the worst bout of lurgy I'd had for years. I had had the flu jab as well. Rarely take time off - normally I just soldier on with bad colds, even though teaching is a bloody awful job when you feel like shit - but there was something going around and I wasn't the only one hit by it. I couldn't eat (lost five pounds in weight) and it felt like my head was going to fall off. I passed it on to several mates and they all agreed it was the worst they had felt for years.

[Northy]

i had that swine flu a few years back, wife got it first and passed it on to me, she must have diluted it though as she was off work for a week and me only 2 days.

[lawrieleslie]

Oct 27, 2016 8:45:35 GMT Northy said:

i had that swine flu a few years back, wife got it first and passed it on to me, she must have diluted it though as she was off work for a week and me only 2 days.

That would have been Bird Flu mate. Us blokes don't get it so badly.

[felonious]

Oct 27, 2016 8:45:35 GMT Northy said:

i had that swine flu a few years back, wife got it first and passed it on to me, she must have diluted it though as she was off work for a week and me only 2 days.

It's a pig of a thing to get rid of.

[bathstoke]

Oct 27, 2016 8:40:40 GMT Linx said:

Back in February I had to take three days off with the worst bout of lurgy I'd had for years. I had had the flu jab as well. Rarely take time off - normally I just soldier on with bad colds, even though teaching is a bloody awful job when you feel like shit - but there was something going around and I wasn't the only one hit by it. I couldn't eat (lost five pounds in weight) and it felt like my head was going to fall off. I passed it on to several mates and they all agreed it was the worst they had felt for years.

Wouldn't want you as a mate

[Linx]

Oct 27, 2016 19:53:38 GMT bathstoke said:

Oct 27, 2016 8:40:40 GMT Linx said:

Back in February I had to take three days off with the worst bout of lurgy I'd had for years. I had had the flu jab as well. Rarely take time off - normally I just soldier on with bad colds, even though teaching is a bloody awful job when you feel like shit - but there was something going around and I wasn't the only one hit by it. I couldn't eat (lost five pounds in weight) and it felt like my head was going to fall off. I passed it on to several mates and they all agreed it was the worst they had felt for years.

Wouldn't want you as a mate

[Deleted]

Oct 27, 2016 19:30:17 GMT felonious said:

Oct 27, 2016 8:45:35 GMT Northy said:

i had that swine flu a few years back, wife got it first and passed it on to me, she must have diluted it though as she was off work for a week and me only 2 days.

It's a pig of a thing to get rid of.

Bit of oinkment will get rid of it.