anyone else who went to PAX get sick?
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I'm sick. my head is all stuffy. I'm hot. I've got the chills sometimes. my left shoulder is stiff. I feel stressed out.. there's this stress in my gut that i can't shake.. like anxiety or something. I think i have swine flu.
anyway, maybe i'm dying. i could be dying! i just wanted to say that if i'm dying, Micronesia gets my pants.
anyway, maybe i'm dying. i could be dying! i just wanted to say that if i'm dying, Micronesia gets my pants.
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I think I may be getting sick now, got something going on in my throat, but feel fine otherwise. Though it's like 4 days since I was in Seattle, so that would be a pretty delayed reaction if so.
Hope you feel better
Don't die.
dun dun dunn
isolate yourself & get better! I picked up i mild case while in NYC, had to spend 1/2 my vacation in my hotel room because my muscles didn't want to work, and i felt like shit. Lots of fluids, sleep, and vitamin C.
I think I was the only one immune to this zombie out break.........time for me to stock up on shotguns and chainsaws, and guns that shoot chainsaws
what about the chain saws with guns for chains?
PAX was still totally worth it.
wow. so yeah. lots of sickies.
it's not that bad, is it? i mean being stressed out fucking sucks but.. could be worse.
aren't i not contageous anymore, now that i'm in full swing with the symptoms?
can i still get whores, is what i'm asking.
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Me too. But I don't think its swine in my case versus a head cold. Coughing and joint aching with tiredness. The last two can be though the lack of sleep and the extra day of put up and take down from Pax.
A friend of mine said they got it and have quarantined themselves from everyone else for about a week now. Kind of serious when you start quarantining yourself?
I also heard once you get it you won't get it again? I am getting nervous as it seems everyone is all of a sudden coming down with a case of it... it went from no sign to everyone pretty quickly.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/9/
*rolls eyes*
lol.
honestly it's not even that bad. I've had flues that were 3 times worse.
I always get sick after I go to a convention, expo, fair, concert, large gathering. I really have to stop licking peoples faces...
I hope you guys get better.
I hate pigs!
you know i cant stand lifeless pants. why would you do that too me?!
Could be worse though. I was recently in China and was feeling pretty down awhile. If it had broken out and/or been shown that i had it the government would have put the whole office in quarantine for two weeks.
Yep. That´s right. The whole office. Even if they didn´t have anything. One guy get´s sick and everyone goes
I've heard from a few of my internet buddies who went to Pax, that they are super sick also.
Pax Swine Sars Hendra Virus Epidemic?
woah there vig... what you do in your own time is your business... but you honestly shouldn't be sharing that hobby with us.
nothin but love, bud. :poly124:
cons always scare me... lots of nerdsweat and nerdstank, of course people are going to get sick, it's the first time a good % of these people have been outdoors in a few months.
fuckin pigs...