Aussie Flu.

[Keith Tindell]

This post reminds me of the golf club, we go and play 9 holes, come back in to the clubhouse, sit down with a coffee and then start to describe the medication we are all on, lol. It's the joys of getting old I,m afraid. I was on two BP tablets, and have managed to shed one of them, and also have shed the statins, as the side effect was giving me severe leg pains, I had been switched from one statin to the next, until I had been on them all, so the Dr said to stop taking them, and take my chances, so the only other tablet I take is for an enlarged prostate which is not cancerous, so at 77 I,ll keep ticking along, unfortunately I am a fat sod, but am trying to do something about that. However we are all on the green side of the grass, and long may it remain, kt

[j.sabourn]

Thanks Cappy I've been taking tablets for it for the past nearly. 20 years. Was seeing the GP. Weekly until 4 weeks ago when he gave up trying to get lower. And gave me a referral to a specialist who I see on the 5 October. As far as Drink goes these days is all in the mind. Have been taking home readings for BP for the past 3. Weeks and logging them for him to show I'm not swinging the lead. Sailed with a second mate who said to me in Montreal I can get off this ship any time,he did as well swallowed a couple of aspirin and ran up and down the quay went to a doctor and of course paid off with a bit of theatrics. Didn't say how he got it down again though. He just went from one ship to another a Zim Israeli vessel. Where the money was better. Cheers JS

[Captain Kong]

October 2006 Anne and I had our Flu jabs and were very ill, in bed for near two weeks, Family had to come and look after us.
In January 2007 a couple of months later we went to San Diego California, to see my son who was a Doctor at the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, near Dago, his wife was a Doctor Microbiologists[ at the Scripps,
She told us a BAD Batch of the serum was made and Condemned as Bad, It was then sold to the British Government cheap and then it arrived here and made us and many others very ill.
Cheers
Brian

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
Never had a flue jab; haven't; touch wood had the flue for years, all the people we know who have had the flue have had the jabs.
Cheers Des

[Doc Vernon]

That seems to be the case in a lot of People Des
As I said both Irene and myself have also never had the Jab but after this last issue well must think on it! But as I have always said even if one gets the Flue normally it helps to boost the immune system and does good at times! But there are times when Poof! its all over Red Rover!
What will be will be!
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

The Flu here this year has been bad and the jab we all had did not cover it. a strain of the flu that just mutated out of nowhere.

Good health is more important than money, with good health you can go out and earn it.
Thankfully I do not need any medication and have managed to reduce my BMI by changing my diet, now eat fish and veg at least four times a week, cut down on Beef and lamb as well.
No 'junk' food and no added sugar in my diet.
End of October my annual FBE and if like the past 6 years it will be good.

[Captain Kong]

my doctor told me, because I lived through the 30s and 40s, my body was immune to most illnesses It is only since the NHS was started that the body now relies upon vaccines.
Cheers
Bran

[John Pruden]

brian barb says I am like a rubber ball I would walk away from a firing squad?? been very lucky more than once me!!! slow and easy that the key. jp

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
I remember as a kid we ate anything, carrots pulled out of the garden and wiped by hand, turnips from the fields, and in our allotment which was about twenty minutes away we would dine on what was in the ground when we were sent to weed it, light a fire and throw spuds in, come home with faces covered in black soot. They now say that is why we older people have like you say a good immune system.
Cheers Des.
Ps. And even now I am just as likely to pick up something I dropped on the carpet, provided Betty isn't watching.

[j.sabourn]

#28.. JP was told that many years ago, never run on a ship. However when in collision up the Plate with the Dutch passengers ship the Rhuys, after dropping the anchor just prior to making contact, threw caution to the wind forgetting all the advice giving earlier, Roger Bannister had nothing on me, would have put the retreating Egyptian army being pursued by the Israelis across the Sinai to shame. Self preservation is a big thing. Was in 1962 so probably didn't have to log it as a close or near miss as later by the safety bureau, it was right on target no near misses about it. Cheers JWS