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I had the Norovirus last week so I'm really getting a kick out of this reply.

/terrible

Whole Lotta R-E-P-E-A-T goin' on here...

themuze: I had the Norovirus last week so I'm really getting a kick out of this reply.

/terrible

Is that why my friend went down to Canada to buy a toilet? I didn't want to ask but I figured he should just eat more fiber.

/the more you know...

Norovirus is typically transmitted person-to-person.

Who writes this retarded shiat? A quick Wikipedia check will tell you several different vectors. Follow those up with research against legit medical references.

MadSkillz: Remember: Low flow toilets do NOT help and in fact spread contamination because they aerosolize bacteria and virii, which can be suspended for up to 90 minutes in the air at the toilet..

I know I shouldn't be drinking coffee at 10:30 at night, but...

MadSkillz: Remember: Low flow toilets do NOT help and in fact spread contamination because they aerosolize bacteria and virii, which can be suspended for up to 90 minutes in the air at the toilet..

Thanks for that public service announcement.

MadSkillz: Remember: Low flow toilets do NOT help and in fact spread contamination because they aerosolize bacteria and virii, which can be suspended for up to 90 minutes in the air at the toilet..

Fatties say the funniest things!

Espertron: [www.cruiselawnews.com image 165x165]

yah, that's about right...for four or five days....with no sleep.....and you kinda want to die.

\never been so sick in my life.
\\the bathroom rug is comfier then one would expect.
\\\slashes prevent splashes.

MadSkillz: Remember: Low flow toilets do NOT help and in fact spread contamination because they aerosolize bacteria and virii, which can be suspended for up to 90 minutes in the air at the toilet..

Having a toilet bowl in the same room where you brush your teeth and wash is pretty disgusting too.

skiinstructor: Whole Lotta R-E-P-E-A-T goin' on here...

And it's even the same damn joke

after 3 days of Norovirus I had lost 10lbs, I can't think of a time when I have vomited that many times in a few hours.

Do you get norovirus from lesbian experimentation?

Bob Down: MadSkillz: Remember: Low flow toilets do NOT help and in fact spread contamination because they aerosolize bacteria and virii, which can be suspended for up to 90 minutes in the air at the toilet..

Having a toilet bowl in the same room where you brush your teeth and wash is pretty disgusting too.

You one of then Yurp-eens who have toilets in their own room?

Sure it wasn't Echovirus virus virus virus?

That's Everett, Washington fer ya.

jaytkay: [lh5.googleusercontent.com image 300x400]

Is it just me or is there something kind of disturbing (but hawt) about the way her hips can move?

Bob Down: MadSkillz: Remember: Low flow toilets do NOT help and in fact spread contamination because they aerosolize bacteria and virii, which can be suspended for up to 90 minutes in the air at the toilet..

Having a toilet bowl in the same room where you brush your teeth and wash is pretty disgusting too.

Unless you, you know, drop the toilet lid before flushing.

It's there for a reason.

Unfortunately nearly everyone I know seems perfectly fine with aerosolizing bits of crap and viruses.

/I hate toilets that aren't mine...especially lidless public ones

Everyone posting about how difficult it is to get a community infection is retarded. I wish MRSA or CDiff on you, in direct proportion to your ignorance and arrogance.

God.

The Norovirus. Never ever want to experience that again, and never, ever been so sick in my life.

You want to die. By the eleventh or fifteenth time you've simultaneously vomited into a bucket while crapping your brains out, you just want out. And it won't let you.

So you go back to bed unable to sleep because everything hurts, you can't even keep water down, and the rolling and bobbing nausea won't stop.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Three days of that followed by ceaseless five-round farts (five different parts of your guts make noise) to the degree that you *will* gas yourself out of your own room will make any person batpoop crazy.

Rah-Rah-Ree
Kick 'em in the knee
Rah-Rah-Ralls
Kick 'em in the other knee

TFA contained no chearleader pics. pointless

I don't see anything to strange about 229 teenaged cheerleaders vomiting in the same venue; they are teenaged girl cheerleaders. Isn't that what they do?

About 25% of attendees were vomiting. That seems about right for the demographic.

madgordy: after 3 days of Norovirus I had lost 10lbs, I can't think of a time when I have vomited that many times in a few hours.

I lost 11 lbs in four days. I actually became symptomatic at the office, and I threw up about 4 gallons of liquid at a urinal because that's where I was when it hit. I'm 43, and I had until that point prided myself on not vomiting since I was young. Well, I threw up at a urinal, crapped my pants at the office at the same time, had to get emergency pants, and then had to call my wife to pick me up from the office because I didn't think I could drive home.

I've never had a point in my life where my body was so flat-out set on rejecting anything and everything that entered my digestive system. I spent four days in my home office bathroom with a cooler full of Gatorade, two bunches of bananas for potassium, a makeshift computer stand created out of the wastebasket, and the TV set up outside the door. I would drink Gatorade or water, wait 15 minutes, expel it, then do the whole thing again. For four days.

That's the worst thing I've ever caught in my life. I hope I built up antibodies or something to fight it, because I can't go through that again without hitting the hospital.

Had it a couple of years ago when their was a big outbreak in the midwest.

My God, it was pure hell. Drinking tons of water because I was terrified of being dehydrated, then getting even more terrified when I realized I wasn't urinating at all, but crapping pure water.

Managed to stumble out to the store and get some gatorade, and finally started pissing.

/csb

MadSkillz: PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Bob Down: MadSkillz: Remember: Low flow toilets do NOT help and in fact spread contamination because they aerosolize bacteria and virii, which can be suspended for up to 90 minutes in the air at the toilet..

Having a toilet bowl in the same room where you brush your teeth and wash is pretty disgusting too.

Unless you, you know, drop the toilet lid before flushing.

It's there for a reason.

Unfortunately nearly everyone I know seems perfectly fine with aerosolizing bits of crap and viruses.

/I hate toilets that aren't mine...especially lidless public ones

As someone with a sensitive GI tract like me, I have to use them.. I don't wanna though.

Unfortunate fact of modern life, the public toilet.

Hope I never get this virus; never wish it on anyone.

Lsherm: madgordy: after 3 days of Norovirus I had lost 10lbs, I can't think of a time when I have vomited that many times in a few hours.

I lost 11 lbs in four days. I actually became symptomatic at the office, and I threw up about 4 gallons of liquid at a urinal because that's where I was when it hit. I'm 43, and I had until that point prided myself on not vomiting since I was young. Well, I threw up at a urinal, crapped my pants at the office at the same time, had to get emergency pants, and then had to call my wife to pick me up from the office because I didn't think I could drive home.

I've never had a point in my life where my body was so flat-out set on rejecting anything and everything that entered my digestive system. I spent four days in my home office bathroom with a cooler full of Gatorade, two bunches of bananas for potassium, a makeshift computer stand created out of the wastebasket, and the TV set up outside the door. I would drink Gatorade or water, wait 15 minutes, expel it, then do the whole thing again. For four days.

That's the worst thing I've ever caught in my life. I hope I built up antibodies or something to fight it, because I can't go through that again without hitting the hospital.

Sounds terrible, although I seriously LOLed at your first paragraph.

madgordy: after 3 days of Norovirus I had lost 10lbs, I can't think of a time when I have vomited that many times in a few hours.

I can... during and right after watching this turd:

chechcal called it the other day, and I endorsed him. From the original thread, bears repeating:

JamisonJamieJames: chechcal: norovirus

This.

A typical bacteria compared to a red blood cell is like a human standing in a football stadium. A typical virus compared to a bacteria is like a human standing in between two football fields.

Most nasty viruses need thousands if not millions of copies for infection to take place.

To my knowledge Norovirus can infect with approximately 1-5 particles. You shed them by the millions. All those handspring backflips and jump splits mixed with a little athletic swamp ass and your propelling a fine fecal aerosol in every direction. Recipe for a epic disastarrhea.

Battleshiats?

madgordy: after 3 days of Norovirus I had lost 10lbs, I can't think of a time when I have vomited that many times in a few hours.

I had that problem once, but I'm pretty sure it was Ginbeerandvodakvirus. That and not eating much and not drinking water. Man that was stupid.

If you do get it, the only thing to do is have a bucket at hand and don't leave the toilet. If you are able to get a break, you'll be back there soon enough.

He only thing I could keep down that helped were the old fart protein shakes / Nutramix / Meal in a can that looks like a chocolate shake. Water was instantly puked up. Gatorade a close second.

Pinch the skin on the back of your hand and pull upward, then release. If it goes back to normal (absorbed back) you're not dehydrated. If it stays all pulled up and weird, get to a hospital.

This bastard of a virus makes it very difficult for you to keep any water in you. And that makes it dangerous.

When you've recovered, the only thing that kills it is a mild solution of bleach and water. It can live in hot or cold with no food for twelve days. You've probably touched everything while your only thought was not to crap your pants and vomit on the cat at the same time, and it's banking that you're not going to be thorough cleaning up after it.

Ew. I pity these cheerleaders. All shameful bonering (because I have a tiny Japanese perv inside me) is dead now that I know exactly what they were going through.

I've had Norovirus once. In a perfect bit of timing, it hit the night before my graduation from college. I had a rather epic weekend planned - bought a keg of Heffeweisen, had arranged the use of my dad's big-ass cargo van so I could haul myself and 7 of my friends down to Vegas for god knows what kind of drunken idiocy - but instead I started feeling off the night before. By about 8pm I was as nauseous as I'd ever been, but not yet at the point where I could start vomiting. It was hell.

Fortunately, my friends came by with some *ahem* green anti-nausea medicine, and that solved the immediate problem quickly. Unfortunately my stomach, while no longer nauseous, was definitely not in the mood to accept food or drink. It was a sort of curious feeling, not full exactly but more like "if you put food in here bad things will happen". It lasted the entire duration of the virus (5 days, roughly). I ate very little in that time, and drank even less. My friends did their best to take down the keg by themselves, but I was barely able to put down one glass, and having a sick and high person sitting in the corner in his green recliner making odd groaning noises while demanding that the lights be kept off doesn't make for the best party environment.

I did have the one end of things dealt with, to be sure, but things still progressed around the other end about as you'd expect. I'd had diarrhea before, but never had I had shaits that were literally liquid. Ever heard the phrase "not farting with confidence"? That was me at first, until a day later when I became absolutely confident that every single fart would be delivered in the form of a shower. For reference, I fart a lot. I spent a lot of time going from the recliner to the bathroom and back, at least that I remember. Keep in mind, I was also "self-medicating" the entire time so I could at least avoid the rainbow screams, so my memory of the events are a little hazy. I do remember sticking toilet paper in my asshole every time I left the bathroom though. That way if something tried to sneak by it'd be delayed long enough for my stoned ass to hustle towards the commode.

All in all, it wasn't the worst experience I'd ever had, but it was no picnic, and in terms of missed opportunities it's up there in my personal top 3. On a side note, any doubts I had about medical marijuana disappeared after that: I didn't make it clear, but I did not vomit once during that 5-day stretch. That's pretty damn impressive considering what I was sick with.

Lsherm: had to get emergency pants,

Mine have flashing red lights and a really cool siren.

Danger Avoid Death: Lsherm: had to get emergency pants,

Mine have flashing red lights and a really cool siren.

I've been in the IT field for a long time, so overnight problems are rare but they must be prepared for. By the second year of my career I realized there might be days where I spent the entire night at the office, so I always have a full change of clothes, deodorant, toothbrush/toothpaste, etc packed in a backpack. As my career progressed, the clothes changed, but I always keep at least the ability to look fresh the next day packed in what would normally be a filing cabinet at my desk.

In that drawer were the emergency pants, and underwear. And while it had been five years since I had actually had to use them for work, I was glad as fark I had them that day.

So here's my tip: if you have a desk - always keep emergency pants, along with anything else you think you need if you have to stay overnight at work. Even if you don't stay overnight for work, it's useful. Maybe you farked the hot secretary at her apartment near work? Well, you have an overnight bag at your office.

I cannot recommend the "emergency bad" enough.

Lsherm: I cannot recommend the "emergency bag" enough.

FTFM.

Danger Avoid Death: Lsherm: had to get emergency pants,

Mine have flashing red lights and a really cool siren.

"No, no Jeffrey, those are my Time-Travelling pants. I said fetch my Emergency Pants!"

Noro-virus came through my son's school right before Christmas break. (yeah, that's what I call it, it's easier to remember for me.) It was generally referred to as "The Pukes".

For some background, I drive school buses. So we're also pretty good friends with my son's driver since she's a co-worker of mine. She had the unfortunate experience of having a kid be sick on her bus when all this started. Fortunately they were at the school and the janitors were able to clean it for her (body fluids and all, technically we're not supposed to clean it.) It was up front, so all the kids piled out the emergency door on the side.

Welp, one week later my son gets on the bus and, I actually drive out of the same school myself, I get this call on the radio at he was sick. (Ah, so that explains why he was walking into the school first with his friend, but no one else had gotten off the bus yet...) I drop of my kids and go inside to see him. Apparently, he'd tried to "catch it" in his hands so he wouldn't make a mess of the bus. Seriously sweet gesture for a second grader.

I get permission to pile him in my vehicle and take him back to the bus garage. I offer to help clean up his bus, but by the time we get there his bus driver has already gotten it all cleaned up. I apologize sympathetically, cause it's one of those things you fervently beg for when driving (Please don't let anyone get sick...)

Well, I took him home and gave him a strict no food and only the tiniest sips of water regimen. Picked up some gatorade and by that evening he was sipping successfully. He then managed to have some chicken noodle soup and toast too.

That was it. We took it easy on his gut, but he was fine after that. None of us managed to get it either (well, not sick enough to puke anyway.)

/as someone who's currently getting over Influenza A, with the 3-day 100 degree fever, fever-head whacked out thoughts, coughing up a lung, and utter exhaustion...I think I got off easy compared to some of these other stories!
//csb

Had this (or something that'll do until the real thing comes along) a few weeks ago. Around midnight I got little stabbing pains in my gut, so I went to the loo... and it was nothing but liquid. Every ten minutes, more and more. Around 2am, I vomited into the bathtub. Around 3am I was praying for death. Nothing was staying in me.

At 6am I thought my prayers would be answered as I vomited on myself... again. Everything I'd ever eaten, everything I'd thought about eating, everything I would eat in the future, was coming out. I managed to text my boss to tell him I wouldn't be making into work that day (only the second time in eight years I'd called in sick), then spent the next nine hours not sleeping and barfing. Then the fever started.

Thankfully, I had enough sense to call a friend and ask her to bring a big bottle of pepto bismol, some gatorade and some bottled water over after work.

By 10pm, I finally was able to sleep. It had only lasted 22 hours, but those were 22 of the worst hours of my life. I didn't feel well until the following Saturday, three days later.

Not even my worst enemy deserved that.

Doctors warn to wash hands regularly, because the virus could be agressive.
B-E agressive.

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I Like Bread: Doctors warn to wash hands regularly, because the virus could be agressive.
B-E agressive.

B
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Norovirus....or as I like to call it, "how I lost 12 lbs between Christmas and New Years"