[Leica] I've recovered

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

Does indeed sound like the flu.  This page might help as far as 
effectiveness of the flu vaccine.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

We had two bouts of a vicious cold, but not the flu.  everyone said we had 
the flu, but didn't have most of the symptoms.  It still was wicked.  caught 
it 4 days after we arrived in SoCal for Christmas, lasted 3 weeks, then 
caught it again the day we left for home.  Made for a miserable two day 
drive back to Washington state.  And it lasted about two weeks.  Still have 
a residual cough.  So nice to get sick in unison.

Glad you are well.

Aram

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From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:59 AM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] I've recovered

> Some time ago my wife and I came down with fever, a cough and a liquid 
> nose. independent doctors (her?s and mine) after a chest X-rays that ?did 
> not rule out pneumonia? were prescribed the same anti-biotic. We were sick 
> for about three weeks. It was quite profound: my weight is down by six 
> percent, and for a few days, you could say that I was clinically 
> depressed.
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> While the ?quacks? wouldn?t commit themselves: we both had flu shots and 
> they said there were no statistics on people getting flu after having the 
> shots, I?m convinced that it had to have been flu. It was too profound.
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> The effect  of the temporary depression was that I couldn?t communicate 
> with friends. While last Saturday, I felt that I had recovered 
> sufficiently to do my regular shift at the Computer History Museum, which 
> was participating in a 45 minute lecture demonstration of the Babbage 
> Difference Engine, followed a quarter hour later by a one-hour guided tour 
> of the Museum, the very next day I felt as follows:
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> I couldn?t bring myself to phone my geocaching buddy, a friend since 1986. 
> I went almost under protest to a performance of Die Fledermaus and sat 
> there wishing I were somewhere else. My wife had organized a party of 
> friends for dinner after the performance, and I just opted out; asked to 
> be dropped off at home. I just couldn?t talk to people.
>
> The next day, yesterday, I was over it. Strange.
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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