What is the most ill you have ever been?

[parawolf]

How ill have you been in recent history (past 5 years)?

For example about 5 - 6 years ago I had glandular fever and it knocked me off my feet for 2 weeks (couldn't eat or drink, even water). Ended up in hospital on a drip and a course of penicillin and steriods to help boost my energies.

Just this weekend i've experienced something similar, by monday afternoon I was experiencing freezing shakes (I was wearing thermals, track pants, tshirt and a jumper) in the same hour i'd be wearing nothing but boxers and i'd be sweating non-stop. Unable to keep water down unable to eat.

Ended up in St Vincents emergancy Tuesday at about 1:30am with a saline drip and two other injections, one to remove the nausea and another of penicillin to attempt to remove the fever. Once that was done, I was able to drink some water and had some panadiene forte and that killed the fever. From there i'm on a course of pencillin again and only just now able to eat a 'meal' of plain pasta rather than fluid meal replacements. It's unlikely that I will be back at work until Monday next week.


So how sick have you been?

[Casper]

never had more than 2 days sick in a row that I can remember. Doesnt mean I wasnt sick, just never taken more than 2 days off in a row.
I actually worked for a month (incuding multiple flights) with untreated pnemonia.. was almost put in hospital for that. Took me 6 months to fully get over that too

[Yum-Yum]

Got chicken pox a few years ago, along with my son, couldn't get around, eat, drink, nothing, just sleep and sweat. My wife thought I was gonna die cause I wouldn't respond to anything.
Happened a week before starting back at work after the chrissy break, didn't get back to work for about 2 weeks.
Scared the shit outta me too.

[EA2BA]

I goto work even when I shouldnt, I have even turned up to work and been told you look dreadful and been sent home ...... lol

[TheSneakiness]

Just some head colds and a nose that drips like a leaky tap. Never kept me away from work.

Oh, now that I think of it, last year I came down with something that started out as a headache and at its peak ended up having me losing my voice. I went to work and kept quiet for about an hour or so, and I really needed to ask a question and got sick and tired of writing down questions. So I piped up and asked the question in my real quiet and very squeaky voice. I sounded like I had been kicked really really hard in the nuts. Got a few laughs too. Got told to go home but I didn't.

[bindi]

Going to work sick is not a good idea guys... you'll infect everyone else. You have sick days, USE THEM

I have had various bits happen - a good dose of the flu that left me bedridden for a week; chicken pox as a 3rd time mother then all three kids getting them two weeks after me (seeing a 6 week old learn to scratch herself was quite amazing); a bout of gastro etc.

The biggest thing by far in our family was when our littlest was nearly 3 - they found a tumour on her kidney and told us it was cancer. After a lot of heartache and stress, it turned out it was a benign tumour, basically like a wart which was removed without any fuss.

Now she is a happy and healthy nearly 9 year old.

So alot of time was taken off work for that.

[EA2BA]

Going to work sick is not a good idea guys... you'll infect everyone else. You have sick days, USE THEM

Yeah great idea, NOT, I dont like to work 2 or 3 times as hard to catch up what hasnt been done, as no one could be bothered to cover my job while i was away sick

[Trevor 57]

Chicken pox a few years ago really knocked me around, but:

I had shoulder surgery recently and 6 weeks off work - YAHOO!

On the subject of going ot work with the flu, etc. If you work in the food industry it is actually against regulations to go work, your employer actually has the right to send you home.

[big_pete]

i had glandular fever back in high school, i missed over a month of school!!
not fun tho

[Racecraft]

At school I had Ross River Fever came back for 2 days and got Chicken Pox,,, missed neatly 3 months of school.. In my current job i havent had a sick day in 7 years

[RED_EL_XR8]

Working from home today with some bug that requires the use of lots of bog rolls.

But the sickest I've ever felt was seeing Seato fail so close to a Bathurst Victory!!! :

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by RED_EL_XR8

But the sickest I've ever felt was seeing Seato fail so close to a Bathurst Victory!!! :

hahaha not what I was getting at, but yup, I get what you are talking about... :nutsycuck

[TheSneakiness]

Originally Posted by RED_EL_XR8

Working from home today with some bug that requires the use of lots of bog rolls.

Created a masterpiece yet?

[FRDGAL]

Originally Posted by Yum-Yum

Got chicken pox a few years ago, along with my son, couldn't get around, eat, drink, nothing, just sleep and sweat. My wife thought I was gonna die cause I wouldn't respond to anything.
Happened a week before starting back at work after the chrissy break, didn't get back to work for about 2 weeks.
Scared the shit outta me too.

What is that called? Shingles? Shindles? Something like that....

Ummm me I copped severe food poisoning last Easter and my inside's are all screwed now. The lining of my stomach was damaged. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. So I still have huge problems almost a year later.

Copped Pneumonia. Got stuck on a drip so a while in hospital there.

Other stuff too lol but they were the worst.

[masters24]

Just a really damaged back, hosp for a few days then vallium for a month after that! Total? 5 weeks off of school, other than that i have only had sever sunburn, and i somehow got told to take a few days off of work... :

[darkfang888]

Had giardia bug a while ago, took a few weeks and some real good drugs. Made me feel like I was walking on balloons. Other than that, I usd to be quite accident prone and broke many-a-bone, but that's not really relevant, is it...

[Olympus]

*knocks wood

I have never been really sick before, just the occasional flu & colds.
I still take the occasional sicky though !

[jjjr6]

Apart from having appendix out and having a week off school (they caught it just before it exploded), i was off work for 4 days after getting food poisoning. Worst part was my ex g/f finding me starkers on the floor of the bathroom having lost consciousness while sitting on the fortress of solitude at 2 in the morning. was in hospital on a drip and all that and had no energy and couldn't eat for 4 days. That was about the worst i think. I consider myself lucky. There are people with worse out there.

[LuvinmyEB]

Nearly cut my thumb off and needed microsurgery 4 months later I was allowed to go back to work.

Appendics removed, 1 month. Pneumonia, 2 weeks and felt like hell for at least 3 months after it. :

*edit* forgot my gall bladder being removed and getting diabetes... :

[LuvinmyEB]

Originally Posted by ianmcginley

How ill have you been in recent history (past 5 years)?

For example about 5 - 6 years ago I had glandular fever and it knocked me off my feet for 2 weeks (couldn't eat or drink, even water). Ended up in hospital on a drip and a course of penicillin and steriods to help boost my energies.

Just this weekend i've experienced something similar, by monday afternoon I was experiencing freezing shakes (I was wearing thermals, track pants, tshirt and a jumper) in the same hour i'd be wearing nothing but boxers and i'd be sweating non-stop. Unable to keep water down unable to eat.

Ended up in St Vincents emergancy Tuesday at about 1:30am with a saline drip and two other injections, one to remove the nausea and another of penicillin to attempt to remove the fever. Once that was done, I was able to drink some water and had some panadiene forte and that killed the fever. From there i'm on a course of pencillin again and only just now able to eat a 'meal' of plain pasta rather than fluid meal replacements. It's unlikely that I will be back at work until Monday next week.


So how sick have you been?

That's the horrid thing about Glandular fever, it keeps coming back when you get run down, it never really leaves your system neither does Chronic Fatigue.
Although once you hit 30 years of age your too old to get Glandular Fever, looks like I'm home free without ever getting it.

[big_pete]

yeah glandular fever sucks the big one!
you cant do anything, you feel like shit, and it takes forever to get over it

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by big_pete

yeah glandular fever sucks the big one!
you cant do anything, you feel like shit, and it takes forever to get over it

Yeah no kidding about it taking forever to get over it. It took me 6 months before I could play sport again, and i've never been able to go out partying like I used to. Previously used 2am was an early night... now its exceptionaly late, even 6 years later.

[Donut Queen]

I once caught Scarlet fever. I didn't even know people still get that these days. I thought it was a middle ages disease lol

[FordFan86]

I haven had a day off work or school for years, i get the occasional flue and cold thing, but doesn't harm me to much. sickest i can remember being non alcohol related woulda been when i was about 13 i had extremly bad headaches, throwing up... they thought i had just got meningitis, i got over it in a few days tho.. came on very suddenly, like within 20 minutes.

[Envious]

had surgery on a hernia and ended up with staf infection in my abdomen, still not 100%. For those of u that dont know, staf is a very bad infection to get, i couldnt move for a long time and had to be helped to the toilet etc, there is another form of it which i nearly got called golden staf, this can kill you... that was in Feb 03, have had surgery on the same spot 2 more times since then because of reoccuring hernias (stupid doctors couldnt get it right first time, i now have a small sheet of internal gortex mesh over the area) all together i would have had probably 3 months off work, the rest on light/restricted duties....

[XRchic]

Had glandular fever and pneumonia at the same time a while back. I was studying an overload (full time plus more) and working 40 hours a week, as a single parent with an 8 month old and a 4 year old and got pretty crook. Missed an entire semester of uni and didnt work for 3 months.

Also, a few years ago, smashed my left foot. Broke 5 bones completely, ripped a few tendons off bones, and completely dislocated it. Didnt realise how bad it was and drove to hospital on it (in a manual - first all the way). Foot is still fairly rooted. Had a month off work and went back when I got a Hertz car - white, auto, 4 cyl Camry until I could drive my own car again (about 10 weeks). Hence my Camry phobia.

Thats about it.

[AdzT3-146]

Wasn't related to work but when i was still little we had to call a doctor to my house cos i had a major athsma attack on christmas day!. apparently that cost a truckload.

2 years ago i ripped a ligament off my ankle bone and was on crutches for a while.

[Sloth]

Last year I missed about two and a half weeks of school when they took my appendix out.
I was sick for a few days and I rolled over in bed and ouch. Went to hospital in an ambulance. It took them days to finally cut me open cause they kept doing tests and ct scans and crap and I wasn't allowed to eat or drink for a week which sucked and I was on a drip the whole time.
The worst thing, heaps of needles and I couldn't go to Pukekohe for the V8s cause I was in hospital! The best thing - being pushed around in a wheel chair, gotta love not having to walk

[Kryton]

mega food poisoning a few years ago. (well at least i think it was-didnt go to the doctor).
every 20 minutes (to the T and no bullshit either) for 3 days straight i would spew up this greeny-clear-salivary-paste type stuff. couldnt eat without throwing it straight up, couldnt even drink water without throwing that up. couldnt even sleep coz every 20 minutes i would need to throw up again. each and every time i did throw up it left a really bad egg yolk taste in my mouth which made me wanna throw up again. by the end of the 3 days i thought i was dead. i couldnt even get myself outta bed i was that weak and that tired. my throat was thrashed and felt so dry that i could hardly even whimper.
my mate gave me a slice of Pinkys Pizza and i actually managed to keep it down and after that all was getting better. (and they say pizza is bad for ya!)
oh i didnt eat eggs for 3 years after that either....just the sight of them and the thought of the taste i had in my mouth. :

[jabba]

Illness....

I caught a head cold that infected the nerve that connects the middle to the brain. I hadCT scans, Xrays,MRI scans, Lumber puncher(needle inserted into the spine, While awake). they thought that I may of had a brain turmor... Symtons were, extreamly fast motabolism,I could not stop eating (sign that the body is fighting an infection). could not open my eyes in daylight. Strong sence of smell (the smell of perfume or deodorant made me nausas). when on my feet I would get nausa and had to lay down..I was in hospital for 5 days and off work for 1.5 weeks.. My wife and nurses said that all my symtons were the same as a pregnant women...I even got to find out what a epidural feels like(needle in spine) Bloody painfull and scary...

Broken bones...

Last 6 years.... 1/ 1999= Broke right leg 2 places, motoX. Of work for 6 months
2. 2001=snaped left ankle at work, slipped on an extension lead. Of work 12 weeks
3. 2003 this one nearly killed me or worse could of left me paralised from the wast down..Broke left leg in 3 places, 835 kilo's of fibro board fell on top of me when I was renovating my house... Of work 6 months

In total I have had 13 broken bones... I use to play hard

Matt