Update from Swine Flu House

[killing_rose]

So remember how I was in the Swine Flu Waiting Room at the health center? I got sent to the house where they're quarantining everyone suspected of having H1N1 on campus. Yes, I said suspected. And yes, that means that most of us probably don't have it. No, they're not doing testing at this point and only a few people have prescriptions for tamiflu.

I'm expecting to be able to go home tomorrow and back to class on Thursday. I have missed way too many classes because of this debacle.

Admittedly, I haven't been feeling well, but also admittedly? To quote a friend of mine, "Your reaction to half the things you're allergic to is identical to what they're screening for." 

And my towel just fell off the hook in the closet. I better not be sharing this room with both a roommate and a ghost.

Comments

[From: rogue_crocodile]

This all kinda sucks. I had the tamiflu a few weeks ago. It didn't make me sick like a lot of people have been complaining, which is kind of a new experience. We shall see if it stops me from becoming ill.

Hope that towel dropper doesn't turn out to be a ghost like the beast that rode in on the back of my daughter's friend last night. Why do they always want to jump ship when they come to my house? Three times in the last month this has happened and that's three times too many.

[From: killing_rose]

Australia's releasing tamiflu to prevent swine flu? The U.S. is giving it out only after someone tests positive for the flu. (Or are you referring to the vaccine? I think the only positive of this experience is that the health center isn't going to attempt to make me get the vaccine.)

While I am no longer in Swine Flu House, I'm fairly certain that it was just a bored one. There wasn't any maliciousness in the house, which I found interesting--in my (very, very limited) experience old houses usually have at least something. We've got a couple that are *fun* on campus, but I tend to avoid those dorms. And laugh quietly when I hear my fellow students complain about how "anonymous students" have done something. I grew up with folks who either refer to them as ghosts or demons, but at least they acknowledged them.

Is there a particular reason why the ghosts really like your house? I have a couple friends who attract them, but I've always been fortunate enough not to. (Power hungry mostly-humans, however, is another story altogether.)

[From: rogue_crocodile]

*giggle* Can't believe I wrote that. That's what you get for having three conversations going at once and then trying to post a comment at the same time. I wrote what I was hearing on the phone. I was talking to a friend about it and then you mentioned it so the word was on the brain. Of course I meant the vaccine. I'm kinda glad I wasn't talking about elephants or something actually. That would have looked really weird. It's a bad habit of mine that I really should be more careful about.

I actually think it was me, rather than the house, that was attractive to them. I'm not sure why as I've never been susceptible to these presences although I've had more experience than I'd like and I've always been aware of them - be they negative, neutral or positive.