MaiMai Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Gotta be honest, I don't typically venture into the obs section much these days. But I thought I may as well take the opportunity? Well, I've found out slightly unfortunately first hand that Fresher's Flu is a very real thing. Not quite so much of a myth as I would have liked!I ended up with it depressingly early. The Wednesday before last, halfway through Fresher's week, I felt freezing and weak the whole day...turns out I had a fever. I ended up ditching the clubbing (eh, I wasn't all that keen on it anyway ).The next few days was sort of low grade illness, and I was really hoping that I could get away with just that. It was just a bit of sniffling, sore throat, and the usual constant, irritating itching that never ever leads to actual sneezing, the most annoying thing about it.Turns out not. I woke up with my voice ridiculously hoarse (like, seriously. I practically always lose my voice with colds, but it was ridiculous ). By early afternoon my voice was completely gone - and I mean entirely, plus the fever had come back. The upshot of this was that, since I am far too much of a wimp to attempt to explain things like this, I ended up walking nearly an hour back to my halls shivering and coughing and generally feeling horrible...purely because I couldn't ask for a ticket, meaning I couldn't get on a bus. Honestly, I felt pretty pathetic. Shortly after that the coughing started, my voice reluctantly half-came back, the actual sneezing started, typically a double or triple or the mornings. The first time it happened I practically died of embarrassment. I'm not exactly sure as of yet how thin the walls in my acommodation are, and I live with several other people. I had no time to stifle or stop it or anything - just a quick triple: "hih'tCHH'uu! hih'tcch'uu! hih'ssshhh'iuu!" After which I blushed so damn hard, and was shamefully scared that someone might have heard me. Thanks, fetish. Same goes for the coughing. I'm trying so hard to be as quiet as possible.I usually shake these things pretty easily, but it's been nearly two weeks of this now, and I've had varying degrees of horribleness each day. So, yeah, conclusion: Fresher's Flu is just as horrible as I was made to believe, who knows how thin the walls in my halls are, and I suck at writing obs. Link to comment
Arty Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Awwww I'm sorry you're not feeling well. But what's freshers flu? Link to comment
Rook Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I am guessing that it's a flu that you can catch during freshman orientation Link to comment
Juniebee Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 ^ Fresher's flu is the idea that during the first week of college you are in a dorm with multiple people and therefore are exposed to many more germs than you would otherwise be, and so you come down with some flu-like bug during the first couple of months of college. Link to comment
Arty Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Ah!!! I see. I never lived in a dorm in college. But hell colds didn't care. Feel better!! Link to comment
sneezingbeauty Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 i am also sick, and have been for a almost a week now and its my first month of college. This also happened to me same to last year so i expect it now lol Link to comment
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