Chocoholic wrote:W, not wanting to put a dampner on you being poorly, but it always amuses when people say they have the 'flu'. Full blown flu knocks you for six for at least a week. It's more than just a fever. You feel sick, ache all over and virtually can't get out of bed.
Sounds like you just had a bad cold.
I think you'll find Chocs that Waf was suffering for a very dangerous strain of "Man Flu" - which is unfortunately (luckily for you girls) only contractable by men. It is much worse than conventional flu, and tends to come and go often 3 or 4 times a year. This can render those sufferers incapacitated, grouchy and in need of sympathy.
A couple of paracetamols usually will "cure" it, but only after 3 days of complaining and moaning - if you take the paracetamols at the very start of when you contract "man flu", they unfortunately do not work properly.