Three seasons, four repottings, and one near-death overwatering disaster later, I now have six different varieties of elephant ear plant spread across my home and garden, and I understand this plant on a level that only comes from watching it fail and recover and fail again until you finally figure out what it actually needs
I got hit with a really rough flu two months ago and nothing seemed to help at first. A friend mentioned an H flu treatment she swore by. I tried it and by day three I was finally sleeping through the night. That H flu treatment brought me back to normal faster than I expected.
And somehow she passed it straight to me without either of us having any clue it was happening. I felt almost cheated — like the rules I thought I knew about the flu were just wrong. Turns out, I didn’t know the rules at all. Most people don’t. The fever thing is practically a myth
I caught the flu two winters back and it knocked me flat. Fever of 103, couldn’t eat, couldn’t think straight. My wife kept asking if she could come in the room and I kept saying no — not yet. I had no clue When Is the Flu Not Contagious. So I started looking stuff up
They both got sick. They both had fevers and aches and couldn’t function. But the way the illness moved through each of them was different enough that it was worth paying attention to. My brother crashed hard and fast — fever of 104 by nightfall, couldn’t get off the couch. His wife came on slightly
My cousin called me from the ER on a Thursday night, voice barely above a whisper, saying the nurse told her she had flu B not flu A. She’d never heard of that distinction before.Neither had I, honestly, not in any meaningful way. That phone call sent me down a research hole I didn’t expect.I
Her son had tested positive for influenza B on Monday, and by Wednesday her husband came back positive for influenza A. Same house, same week, completely different strains. She asked me — half joking, half genuinely panicked — whether they needed to sleep in different rooms from each other now. Then she said the thing
They thought we’d caught the same bug. We hadn’t. And this is the thing about flu a vs flu b symptoms that most people never actually learn until they’re living through it: these aren’t two names for the same illness. They’re two different viruses that move through your body differently, hit different people differently, and
That’s when I began looking into things. Questions came up during my next doctor visit. Reading took over after that. The details on flu type a vs b – their biological differences, how they act, how serious they get, what helps – ended up being the clear answers I needed right at the start. Flu
That’s when I began looking into things. Questions came up during my next doctor visit. Reading took over after that. The details on flu type a vs b – their biological differences, how they act, how serious they get, what helps – ended up being the clear answers I needed right at the start. Flu