It's all those people not vaccinating their kids. :o I just read several children have died in this state from whooping cough. An entirely preventable disease. For some reason people now think that hyperactivity and autism are fates worse than death.

And so it goes... get better with a quickness, Z.

I get blind migraines and full blown migraines, but I don't generally get sick with infectious diseases. I hurt myself. Like on the quadrunner, I KNOW I'm gonna hurt myself some day. I just hope someone's around to find me. God I'm so clumsy!

Not vaccinating kids... what a world we've made.

Were all gonna chip in and buy you one of those life alerts to wear around your neck sea!Good morning everyone and i hope you get well soon Zman.

My family and I joke about that ALL the time! Help! I've fallen, and I can't get up! Or, Help! I've climbed up this rock and I can't get off! Or, Help! I bent over and got stuck! :D

Theoneandonly Z said:

I caught t his horrible flu. I usually never get sick, I've been sick 3 times in the past 5 months... what's up with so cal? Too many people?? This one is the worst. 103 fever last night and my lungs are sore from coughing. Never had a pneumonia before but I'm assuming this is what its like. Stuck in bed drinking Nyquil to keep knocking myself out, not even smoking cuz my lungs hurt so bad... FUCK!

Any how, good morning farmers, hope u don't catch this shit!

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Z, Not to be too dramatic but the H1N1 is back and can be deadly especially if you were sick, got a little better, and got sick again. This strain of flu hits the young and healthy the hardest. If that's you it might be a good idea to check in with an MD. Take care and feel better. Hopefully, you are through the worst. It's bad when you can't even smoke a little herb :(

Yeah Z, I hope you are on the mend. Not trying to scare anyone but I know of two folks that have been hospitalized this month with flu turned pneumonia- one of em' is still there in a coma... can you believe that?

THAT is where it's so scary. My kids' first pediatrician, a neighbor whose daughters I grew up with, went into the hospital for a check-up. It was discovered he had arterial blockages to the heart or some shit like that, so bypass surgery was scheduled for that day. He contracted pneumonia and was dead in less than a week. It's tragic, it takes everyone, all ages, all income levels, all educational levels. And because antibiotics are so much less effective, well...

Black Lab said:

Z, Not to be too dramatic but the H1N1 is back and can be deadly especially if you were sick, got a little better, and got sick again. This strain of flu hits the young and healthy the hardest. If that's you it might be a good idea to check in with an MD. Take care and feel better. Hopefully, you are through the worst. It's bad when you can't even smoke a little herb :(

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Yep, I've read some Bay area/NorCal deaths reported from it, too.

Thanks for the love guys. I am a little worried. I still had some antibiotics in my good ole med cab though thank god.. I'm in Ventura county and h1n1 is going around. I'm holding out on going to the doc's for a day or two. im the kinda guy that hated going in.. I have 2 kids under the age of 4, this is what scares me the most. So I'm quarantined and they r at grandmas w/ my wife. But I have my faithful black lab to take care of me, didn't realize how bad she needs a bath..
Thanks again, I will make sure to go in if needed

Theoneandonly Z said:

Thanks for the love guys. I am a little worried. I still had some antibiotics in my good ole med cab though thank god.. I'm in Ventura county and h1n1 is going around. I'm holding out on going to the doc's for a day or two. im the kinda guy that hated going in.. I have 2 kids under the age of 4, this is what scares me the most. So I'm quarantined and they r at grandmas w/ my wife. But I have my faithful black lab to take care of me, didn't realize how bad she needs a bath..
Thanks again, I will make sure to go in if needed

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LMAO mine needs a bath too. She stinks!!

Oh and ya, I'm in my 20's and both kids have been vaccinated

Ha! he couldn't smell the stank on puppy until he was sick... Dogs are the best nursemaids out there!

Now I'm smelling my dog: she needs a serious bath.

Theoneandonly Z said:

Thanks for the love guys. I am a little worried. I still had some antibiotics in my good ole med cab though thank god.. I'm in Ventura county and h1n1 is going around. I'm holding out on going to the doc's for a day or two. im the kinda guy that hated going in.. I have 2 kids under the age of 4, this is what scares me the most. So I'm quarantined and they r at grandmas w/ my wife. But I have my faithful black lab to take care of me, didn't realize how bad she needs a bath..
Thanks again, I will make sure to go in if needed

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Don't just take the antibiotics or you'll be contributing to the larger problem of resistance. Also, if it's really a flu or cold, antibiotics will only further stress your system, they're indiscriminate and are only effective against bacteria, not viruses.

:banghead:

*runs to the toilet and heaves antibiotics*

Stop taking it and get some good probiotics into your system.

Thanks for the tips, only took a round of them last night. Won't touch em if that's the case! I have some pro biotic yogurt for my young one! Lol, I might just have to run to the store

Anybody know if MJ is really toxic for dogs. I read this once before but dismissed it as false.
This is your dog on drugs: Marijuana poisoning on the rise in pets
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An English Bulldog wears a marijuana-leaf lei at the High Times U.S. Cannabis Cup in Seattle, Wash. Just don't let him eat it.
Please don’t let your dog drink the bong water.

Calls reporting pet poisonings by marijuana have increased by about 30 percent since 2009, from 213 calls that year to 320 in 2013, according to the Animal Poison Control Center, a division of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Those calls probably represent only a fraction of poisonings related to cannabis.

In Boulder, Colo., where marijuana recently became legal, Dr. Matt Booth said his veterinary emergency center sees about a case a month. The episodes are usually accidental, he said, but even if some were deliberate, “and some ding-a-ling gave his dog marijuana, they wouldn’t tell me that” because of local animal cruelty laws.

Dr. Monica Kaeble of the Pet Emergency and Specialty Care Center in La Mesa, Calif., adjacent to San Diego, told NBCNews.com her practice sees more, about one or two cases of cannabis poisonings per week.

Marijuana doesn’t agree with dogs — and though cats can also be poisoned by second-hand smoke, dogs seem more apt to root through their owners’ stashes.

“Animals don’t react the same way as humans,” explained Dr. Tina Wismer, director of the Animal Poison Control Center. “They may become sedated, act drunk and wobbly, but about 25 percent go the other way. They become agitated, have high heart rates, they’re in distress. Most dogs become incontinent. They stagger around dribbling urine everywhere.”

Blood pressure can soar. Without treatment, dogs can go into comas and die.

Bong water (yes, really) is only one way animals can access the active ingredients in marijuana. While dogs can, and do, eat plant material, including marijuana leaves, serious poisonings more often result from edibles prepared by owners for their own use.

Marijuana butter is especially dangerous. “People put weed and a stick of butter in a sauce pan and the fat soluble cannabinoids leech into the butter creating a much higher concentration of THC,” Wismer explained.

Users then make brownies or cookies with the butter, and dogs, being dogs, and loving brownies and cookies, may scarf them down when a pet owner isn’t looking.

In the case of brownies, that’s doubly dangerous. Chocolate, a heart and nervous system stimulant in dogs, is one of the leading causes of dog poisonings in the U.S. Last year, the ASPCA poison control center received 9,200 calls related to chocolate poisoning, dwarfing the number of calls for marijuana.

But cookies can be doubly dangerous, too, Booth said. He’s seen cases of dogs ingesting marijuana-laced raisin oatmeal cookies, but the real problem wasn’t so much the marijuana as the raisins, which can be toxic to dogs, causing kidney failure.

Other frequent poisonings involve human medications, pesticides, and ethylene glycol anti-freeze.

The increasing availability of marijuana due to legalizations may be one reason why pet poisonings have gone up.

A 2012 study in the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care reported a correlation between a rise in dog pot poisonings and the increased number of medical marijuana cardholders, finding a fourfold increase in cases at two Colorado hospitals over six years.

But Booth thinks awareness has helped. He used to see more cases involving marijuana at Alpenglow Veterinary Specialty + Emergency Center before Colorado made recreational pot legal.

“As it’s become more commonplace in Boulder, and now with legalization, pet guardians have gotten pretty savvy. I see it less and less. If they haven’t had experience with it, then a friend has and word has gotten out. People are more conscientious and aware,” he said.

If your dog shows signs of wobbliness, incontinence, is hyper reactive to sound and sights, has seizures or signs of hyperthermia, you can call the ASPCA’s poison control center at (888) 426-4435, a local emergency animal hospital, or your usual vet.

I read some stories and so far the only reported cases of animal death that were 100% attributable to cannabis were...

A cat, and a horse. No explanation needed.

Seamaiden said:

I read some stories and so far the only reported cases of animal death that were 100% attributable to cannabis were...

A cat, and a horse. No explanation needed.

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Hmm? I still don't get it. What killed them, eating too much?

I know chocolate and raisins are toxic but cannabis? I wonder what is in cannabis that could make dogs ill.