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My DH has refused to clean the garage for the past three years because he once found rat poops in a back corner, and therefore we obviously have the virus hanging out in the garage.

This is pure genius! "We can't clean it, because it's filthy." Why didn't *I* think of this argument? <g>

DebBee

By the way, I like how this is in the "yakking" it up board!!

well, AQ doesnt have a "Ceramic Confessional" forum. (which if you think about it.. fits both "ends" of the story very well)..

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Has anyone else had this? The doctor told the Highlander it was called the Henta virus or something, but he doesn't remember. I really want to know the name so I can warn folks at school about it (plus I want to be sure I'm not going to pass it on if I go to work in the morning).

I think it is the Noro-virus. There aren't many survivors of the Hanta virus--it's similar to the Black Plague from Europe, transmitted by rodent droppings and quite ever-present in the US Southwest which is why folks recommend you don't dig up a lot of Southwestern dirt and inhale it as it's usually in there. Once you inhale it it's usually pretty deadly.

The Noro-virus is a stomach virus that hits folks suddenly and typically lasts for 24-72 hours with extreme stomach cramping, vomiting and all the other 'unpleasantries'. It's often confused with food poisoning but it's just a fast spreading virus that is really difficult to avoid. I'm sure our family's had the Noro-virus a few times, unfortunately. It's usually those events where you swear off food for the rest of your life and then a few days later you become friends again with food although you never really 'trust' food again. It hit me a few hours after I went to a Burger King in Central WA and I haven't even gone near one of those sandwiches since. But there's no way it could have been BK because both my kids got it first and neither of them ate there--it just took a few hours long to 'hit' me. It just hit them faster.

Hope you're feeling better soon!

daelphinus

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well, AQ doesnt have a "Ceramic Confessional" forum. (which if you think about it.. fits both "ends" of the story very well)..

You people have NO hearts whatsoever. I CHERISHED that toilet for at LEAST 24 hours and all you people can do is try to deny our forbidden love! (runs off sobbing to the bathroom while you hear the strains of the theme to the "Love Boat")

The Lovvvve Boat...soon will be making another run...!

The (trying to cling to the bowl) Sprite & the (waiting outside the door with a newspaper under his arm for HIS turn to share the love) Highlander

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The Noro-virus is a stomach virus that hits folks suddenly and typically lasts for 24-72 hours with extreme stomach cramping, vomiting and all the other 'unpleasantries'. It's often confused with food poisoning but it's just a fast spreading virus that is really difficult to avoid. I'm sure our family's had the Noro-virus a few times, unfortunately. It's usually those events where you swear off food for the rest of your life and then a few days later you become friends again with food although you never really 'trust' food again.

This sounds more like what he might've been talking about. I haven't been around any mouse poop (although we DO have some mice about) and I DEFINITELY have no interest in PB & J anymore!

The S & H

laughing my (knock on wood) healthy butt off....

cam
(who's held the hair back of many a girlfriend whilst she made out with the porcelain prince)

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The Noro-virus is a stomach virus that hits folks suddenly and typically lasts for 24-72 hours

Yeah, this is the one that gets big TV time when it happens onboard a cruise ship.

DebBee, who works for a cruise line

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folks recommend you don't dig up a lot of Southwestern dirt and inhale it as it's usually in there. Once you inhale it it's usually pretty deadly.

Shoot. And I was really looking forward to snorting some of that Southwestern dirt. Now you have to go & spoil it all.

=)

Sheba

This post gives whole new meaning to the board Yakking it Up.

My advice is to stay away from Yakking it up in old houses with wide pine floors.
My children specialize in "grouting" the floor!

DEF

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"grouting" the floor!

There's a mental picture I didn't need. But now that it's there, I'll have to bank that quote for future reference.

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Quotewell, AQ doesnt have a "Ceramic Confessional" forum. (which if you think about it.. fits both "ends" of the story very well)..

You people have NO hearts whatsoever. I CHERISHED that toilet for at LEAST 24 hours and all you people can do is try to deny our forbidden love! (runs off sobbing to the bathroom while you hear the strains of the theme to the "Love Boat")

The Lovvvve Boat...soon will be making another run...!

The (trying to cling to the bowl) Sprite & the (waiting outside the door with a newspaper under his arm for HIS turn to share the love) Highlander

sprite- you amuse me. its some ungodly hour in teh morning and im reading about your love fest with a ceramic confessional. needless to say my class is staring at me funny cause i cant stop laughing.

ok deep-breathes...but i fully understand your pain/ love. i had gotten "in love" a few weeks ago. i hadnt exactly eaten for severla days- i was too stressed out and busy with the end of our quarter in school- little sleep and the only thing i really had in me was coffee. and by the time i got homei was in extreme pain and freezing despite being under severla heavy blankets. eventually i was forced (by cq) to eat a few crackers nad promtly began the toliet hugging. luckily i didnt have that much in me so its wasnt too bad...

but still it was a horrible way to end a very stressful week.
but hey we lose weight :)

we miss you sprite and feel better (i cant imagine these bored without reading you "i didnt need to know that" comments.)

kwm

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The Noro-virus is a stomach virus that hits folks suddenly and typically lasts for 24-72 hours with extreme stomach cramping, vomiting and all the other 'unpleasantries'. It's often confused with food poisoning but it's just a fast spreading virus that is really difficult to avoid. I'm sure our family's had the Noro-virus a few times, unfortunately.

I had this once, it was truly truly terrible and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. In fact when Sprite first wrote about this it was the first thing I thought of!

I was sick for 3 days, I'd roll out of bed and that's as far as I'd make it. My poor boyfriend just cleaned and cleaned up after me. I ended up in the ER with a saline drip to rehydrate me eventually, only they gave me some drug and it made my arm burn so bad going in!!! My aunt (a nurse) told me it was the same drug they give heroin addicts that are coming down and have stomach complaints so that they hopefully remember the pain of "getting thru it" so that they won't want to do it again and that there were other drugs they could have given me instead. Why they felt the need to give me a heroin addict medicine is beyond me, but a lot of things at our local hospital are beyond me too (like why I get 6 bills for one visit--yet they can't keep obviously dirty laundry out of the corners by the elevator).

moonduck

My nephew had this when we gathered for Christmas a few weekends ago. Within 24 hours, my brother, my mother, my aunt, and I each had it as well. I couldn't even take my daughter to day care as I couldn't be that far from the bathroom. I also would never wish this on anyone!! I just thank God my daughter didn't get it, too. I'm also thankful that Cinderella occupied her for most of the afternoon, as I simply could not care for my child. And I believe it is true that you are contagious *after* your symptoms go away. Several co-workers got it after I came back to work. I'm not saying they got it from me...

Ugh! This sounds alot like something that I got a couple of years ago! We had some friends visiting for my parents anniversary party from Florida, and they thought they had food poisioning! My whole family had it, but my Dad and I got the worst of it, since we came in the closest contact with it! My daughter yakked on me ( then she was over it! ), and my Dad got it from cleaning up after the friends!

I thought I was gonna die! Knocking on wood that we don't have to go through that again anytime soon!

moonshowr

Hey!!!

I'm sitting here watching Jay Leno, and Jennifer Garner just admitted that she had the same thing Sprite had!

Weird!!!

moonshowr ( I swear I just heard the Twilight Zone music )

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I'm sitting here watching Jay Leno, and Jennifer Garner just admitted that she had the same thing Sprite had

Gee, I didn't know Jennifer Garner knew Sprite.... =)

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I'm sitting here watching Jay Leno, and Jennifer Garner just admitted that she had the same thing Sprite had!

The Highlander?

-wassamatta_u

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The Highlander?

Wassa, don't do that when I'm drinking my morning coffee! Now I've got to figure out how to hide a coffee stain on a white wall...

Knit Wit

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[quote}\] I'm sitting here watching Jay Leno, and Jennifer Garner just admitted that she had the same thing Sprite had!

The Highlander?

ROFLMAO! I just barked out a laugh that actually just startled the mess outta the poor Highlander (who was home all day with a milder version of what I had, looks like...poor thing)!

ROFLMAO!!!!!


I KNOW, I had no idea, either! That's why I was sooo shocked!!! I wonder if she knows Sprite from LBing, or D & D???? ;)

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I KNOW, I had no idea, either! That's why I was sooo shocked!!! I wonder if she knows Sprite from LBing, or D & D???? ;)

JG's an old school gamer from WAY back...we used ta throw bones all the TIME! LOL