The swine flu dispelled
Sam Johnson
Issue date: 11/25/09 Section: News
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"I'll only worry about swine flu when it starts killing more people than the typical influenza," stated Jeremiah Kwiatoswki, 23 year old student of University of Arizona. Though others do not feel as breezy and carefree, despite no significant recorded amount of fatalities, this illness can definitely have effects on business and interpersonal relations moreso than the average common cold. Local residents, Becky Peterson and Michael Shumway, described the trials and tribulations faced with the recovery of the condition in detail with the press on Friday.
"I didn't think much of it until I started having the aches and pains," noted Peterson, continuing to describe relations with symptoms of other such illnesses as pyrexia and upper respiratory infection. When inquired as to the where or how she may have contracted the flu, Peterson reflected upon a formal in which a few friends were later discovered to have been suffering from H1N1. It is clear that despite a lack of noticeable symptoms, one may have the illness. With such in mind, the statement hitherto in conjunction with what cannot be elucidated upon allows for inference that it was contracted from someone present at the event. Shumway reported similar notions.
"I [could not] get out of bed," Shumway said, taking note that he had been marked absent for an entire week of work and school. With the rigorous standards of many classes, especially given the grades being that of a necessary cumulative value concerning homework and participation, understandably the effort on his part to compensate for his lack of presence due to illness was upsetting. Though to add very much a sense of despair regarding these academic affairs is how, even if one has been officially declared to have recovered from H1N1, the lingering physical repercussions can be of notable value.
"Even after I felt better, I was completely drained and exhausted," stated Peterson, agreeing with reports by Shumway that even simple tasks such as going to the grocery store for more juice proved to be a difficult task while one suffers from said condition. The timing was unfortunate as well, as Halloween happened to pass during their time in the hospital, thus resulting in an inability for Shumway to participate in trick-or-treating with his son of four years, for the first time in his life.
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