I’m sitting here on the couch in my flannel lounge pants, t-shirt and covered in a nice warm quilt my grandmother made a long time ago. If you haven’t gotten the imagery yet, I’m not feeling good and am sick at home.
My wife is already fearful that I’ve got the swine flu, the other white virus. I personally like to call it just feeling like crap and that my head may explode at any minute.
Microsoft has setup The H1N1 Response Center website to help me confirm that idea by teaching me more about the virus and whether or not my symptoms are worth getting worked up over and wasting a co-pay on at the doctor’s office.
“If current estimates are correct, many emergency departments across the nation could be overwhelmed by two groups of patients — those who have H1N1 and those who believe they have H1N1,” said Angela Gardner, M.D., FACEP, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. “It is going to be essential that we use every tool and service at our disposal to contain this illness, and online H1N1 self-assessment tools, such as the one offered by Microsoft, can be helpful in providing people with ways to determine whether they should seek emergency care.”
The self-assessment took just a couple of minutes and has confirmed my own thoughts that I’m not suffering from the swine flu, I just feel like a big sow that’s been sitting on the couch all day trying not to move.
If you desire you can save your results in Microsoft’s Health Vault service. If not, you can just visit the Microsoft H1N1 Response Center website and see if you’re pig sick or just regular sick.