Tito Ortiz is back home:
"Nice to be home. They put 6 bags of fluid in me. I'm better now. I lost 15lb. I though I had swine flu but I didn't. Just a really bad flu."
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Its actual not much different than the regular flu except...
that it’s lethal zone is in age ranges that are usually resistant to the season flu.
In other words, instead of older people dying from H1N1, like the normal seasonal flu, its the 30’s and younger crowd.
Six bags of fluid in Tito? Jenna has had more
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by keyboardwarrior on Mar 17, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
swine flu was stupid. my doctor told me he wasn’t telling people they had swine flu because there was no alarm for the panic.
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….why? Because the world needs more mindless litigation?
Sure glad Lesnar got his shit straightened out.
by judonerd on Mar 17, 2010 12:54 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 5 recs
oh no!! h1n1 this is the worstest thing ever, everyone will die!!! this is the worst thing since bird flu and that almost wiped out the human population!!! oh no!!
"For some reason Dana White doesn't like me, and I don't care enough to find out why. So he can go pound sand up his ass as far as I'm concerned."
Don Frye
by keyboardwarrior on Mar 17, 2010 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Are you sure.
Or could it be that the full spectrum response kept the virus from getting out of control? (Un) Fortunately we will never know.
With Swine Flu the treatment is the same as...get this...
REGULAR FLU!
I HAD IT! It was really rough! I threw up a bunch and had to keep drinking fluids and stay hydrated.
Instead we rushed out another god damn vaccine that people don’t need for a virus that can be treated by drinking fucking water.
but that’s neither here nor there. It’s just good to know that Ortiz is fine.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 17, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions
"Instead we rushed out another god damn vaccine that people don’t need for a virus that can be treated by drinking fucking water."
I’m not trying to get into some full debate here, but that is a bit dismissive of the medical situation. Perhaps the parents of some of the kids who died from H1N1 should have just given their kids more water…
Influenza has a higher morality rate than SARS
Influenza has a higher mortality rate than West Nile.
Influenza routinely kills people. It’s sort of the one real disease people should be afraid of.
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There is a lot to be said for...
Fire breaks and herd immunity, and honestly a flu pandemic during an economic downturn can be catastrophic for a economy. Forget the possible deaths since like you said, it’s the flu, proper hydration is the best medicine, but it’s also a bit more severe, well severe enough to actually cause a few deaths in the 20-50 crowd, along with generally effecting people a bit longer than normal flu, around 1.5-2weeks.
However, it’s really important for the civilized world to stay ready for pandemics no matter how severe the actual virus ends up being. Otherwise we’re inviting a 1918 type incident when we have the technology to stop it.
At a certain point, just saying to rub some dirt on it and move on isn’t helpful. The fact that athletes in peak physical condition are hospitalized for the flu just goes to show how dangerous even a common bug can be.
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by Jacob Hayes on Mar 17, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This. In 1918, the flu that killed millions, was still a flu, just slightly more severe. There is a lot to be said for herd immunity. Prevention is a responsibility. Otherwise you risk spreading things to people that won’t survive.
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seriously, making such a big deal out of the flu is somewhat of a dickish move. the whole “this is the hardest day of my life” etc. tweets made it sound quite a bit more serious than it was.
i remember how miserable i was when i was the sickest in my life, i’ll never forget that. i also recall no going to work, not getting online, not turning on the tv, not eating, not tweeting, just laying down under blankets feeling awful.
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it was a slow news month. After the eartquakes you didnt hear nothing about H1N1.
HI YAH!
by Thats It For you! on Mar 17, 2010 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Didn't Tito say it wasn't health related?
So being sick with the flu isn’t a health issue? Why all the cryptic tweets? What a drama queen. I hope he gets better.
Why can’t he fight Chuck? Isn’t that fight many months away?
by JimJoe on Mar 17, 2010 12:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Influenza
Proper flu – rather than a very bad cold – can be seriously life-threatening and often requires hospitalization as may folk write off the early stages as just having a cold.
by VikingPhotography on Mar 17, 2010 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
This.
When people say things like “I think I had the flu” I want to hit them. If you had the flu, you’d know it.
If you’re sick in bed, and you adjust your blankets to keep you warm, you don’t have the flu. If you had the flu you’d lack the strength to adjust your own blankets; you’d need help with that.
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This...
Is hyperbole, influenza is basically the most adaptable organism on planet earth, it’s constant mutations making any concrete claims about “there is no way you could move” laughable.
Some strains are much more serious than others, some more mild. That’s the nature of the disease, and that’s before getting into the different genus of flu virus and how the B grouping has a widely varying severity level of the same virus among different people due to different levels of acquired immunity.
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Actually
If treated in it’s early stages you might not know you have the flu. The early stages of the flu are similar to those of the common cold. When someone gets the flu they don’t immediately lose the strength to adjust their blankets, that happens if they blow off early symptoms.So there’s nothing wrong with saying “I think I had the flu” because they could have, just prevented it from worsening.
Tito annoys me
He’s like an emo middle school girl who can’t do anything properly.
by cyke on Mar 17, 2010 12:17 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
middle school emo girls are typically much better with words than tito. think about it, they come up with 1000 ways to eloquently describe how their soul resembles a barren waste land :D
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how many emo kids does it take to change a light bulb?
1 to change the lightbulb while 10 others write poetry about how the broken glass resembles their shattered lives.
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1000 ways to eloquently describe how their soul resembles a barren waste land.
Damn, that was funny as hell.
No kidding it wasn’t swine flu, because that shit was hyperbolized to infinity by pharmaceutical company-endorsed researchers and doctors who just want you to buy their vaccine. Any kind of flu can kill you if you do not take care of yourself in a timely fashion.
It’s not surprising that Tito will hype anything up as long as it draws attention to himself, even if it means taking advantage of a potentially life-threatening illness. It’s a shame all the casual playboys buy pay-per-views that he’s on because I’m about ready for him to retire.
i find its best to assume people wouldn’t lie/joke/use something as painful to so many people as a miscarriage. i’ll assume she had it and was acting irrational after the fact.
if it turns out she made it up, she is even more sick than anyone previously thought.
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The Tito hate is crazy.
I’m no fan of his, but y’all gotta chill. Sounds like he got very sick and is now recovering but all you guys have to say is hate hate hate hate.
Get well soon, Tito. I want to see you get smashed with fists and shins, not viruses and bacteria.
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You know.... Lyoto Machida had the flu too.......when he beat Tito Ortiz..............jus sayin....
by Krimson on Mar 17, 2010 12:34 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
So, this flu was enough for the Liddell vs Ortiz fight not to happen? If Ortiz is healthy right now, and with their proposed fight still two months away, I would assume that Tito can start a training camp with no real problems.
Sure
but now he has an excuse for when he loses again. Expect to hear about his “ful” during his post-fight talk.
by MMAInFeRioRiTy on Mar 17, 2010 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions
or his back, or his face, or his neck, or his personal life….
by Roll for Life on Mar 18, 2010 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Cracked skull
What’s a little shoulder injury when Tito Ortiz fought Forrest Griffin with a cracked skull ?
6 bags of fluid = Tuesday afternoon for Jenna
by LORENZO. on Mar 17, 2010 12:42 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, this still doesn’t round out the story here. What the hell is going on? I thought he pulled out and was replaced by Frankllin in the midst of TUF filming. Oh shit, I’m gonna have to tune in to TUF 11, to see what happens!
by Kwisatz Haderach on Mar 17, 2010 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
He also forgot to mention...
..his cracked skull, 6 vertebra that doctors never even heard of are damaged, the gap between his 5-6 molars, the brain deficiency that does not allow his body to move sometimes, he inability to have a 3rd child (oh, i went there), and his big a$$ head isnt big enough for his massive brain..
Im sure i missed something..
Making fun of the guy is one thing but bringing up a miscarriage? I really hope you never have to go through one.
by CSKit on Mar 17, 2010 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Lighten up?
You’re mocking a miscarriage, when you suffer through one we can talk about lightening up. Until then Sherdog misses you.
HAHAHAA!
Thanks guy. Thank you for linking Sherdog, that was cheeky and clever. Wish I would have thought of that with the PETA site or the women against abuse site.. or WAIT better yet how about the coping with miscarriage site?
Seriously, lighten up.
I’m with you, but I don’t have a wife or child. The upset people probably do.
by MMAInFeRioRiTy on Mar 17, 2010 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Possibililty?
…more like, the reality when..
Tito could be something again...
But he really needs to develop some kind of striking game on his feet, and work on his take downs some more just to get some variation going.
No one wants to be in a GNP position from a “healthy” Tito even today, so he needs to develop that fear by getting better at the takedown again, and then using that fear by being able to let his hands fly ala GSP.
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Don’t you think if he was going to develop a striking game it would of happened already?
Face the facts, he’s done as a top level guy.
by moreofmyself on Mar 18, 2010 12:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Obviously the flu virus slipped through the crack in his skull and infected his brain, that’s why he got so sick. Brain flu.
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