jules321
19-01-18, 00:00
Forgive me - another flu thread. Y'all just might have to tolerate one a week (a day?) by me for the duration of the flu season.
I'm seriously panicking. Someone just told me (thanks a lot) about a healthy woman my age who just died of the flu and had received the vaccine. First, I don't know why people feel the need to tell me these things (their own fear) - but HELP. I am not keeping it together well. It'd be one thing if I could just isolate in my own house as I have been able to before years ago... but now I have a husband who is often at work functions with *hundreds* of people and a child who goes to school everyday. I feel doomed. It's the only way to put it. What I keep trying to remind myself is that flu doesn't equal death. I am so scared of the getting the flu because I'm equating flu with death... but death from flu is actually pretty rare.... right?!!?
Help me out please, people. I usually consciously avoid seeking reassurance but that's failing me right now. Freaking out.
I'm seriously panicking. Someone just told me (thanks a lot) about a healthy woman my age who just died of the flu and had received the vaccine. First, I don't know why people feel the need to tell me these things (their own fear) - but HELP. I am not keeping it together well. It'd be one thing if I could just isolate in my own house as I have been able to before years ago... but now I have a husband who is often at work functions with *hundreds* of people and a child who goes to school everyday. I feel doomed. It's the only way to put it. What I keep trying to remind myself is that flu doesn't equal death. I am so scared of the getting the flu because I'm equating flu with death... but death from flu is actually pretty rare.... right?!!?
Help me out please, people. I usually consciously avoid seeking reassurance but that's failing me right now. Freaking out.