Flu

My grandmother clipped this out of some county newsletter and left it for me:

How do I know if I have the H1N1 flu?

The symptoms of this influenza virus are similar to just about every 'flu' bug out there.  Common effects are a cough, sore throat, headache, fever and chills, severe fatigue with body aches.  Some people are over the fever and chills phase in about 2 to 3 days while others suffer for more than a week.  Complications can occur days into the illness when lower chest congestion progresses to pneumonia.  This is a secondary bacterial infection that comes about because the immune system is so taxed fighting the flu it cannot fend off the bacterial pneumonia.  This disease is so prevalent that hospitals and the health department have stopped testing specifically for H1N1 2009. It is always coming back positive, so if you have the above symptoms you are presumed to have H1N1 influenza.

(Yeah, whoever wrote that article needs to work on their language skills.)

Cough, sore throat, fever and chills, severe fatigue with body aches. All there, at one point or another in the last two weeks. Pneumonia last week.

Doctor's appointment tomorrow, because I hate the idea of missing a third week of work.