I can´t offer a shirt, but I´ve got Corona promotional sign lying around here somewhere that proudly proclaims "this is living".

Get well soon everyone.

Quote from: SCBrian on July 15, 2022, 10:58:34 AMFWIW, my wife had it a few weeks ago.  ~48 hours and done.  She drove me to where I was backpacking (About 4 hours) went home, started feeling ill, and tested positive the next day. 2 days later, she was good-to-go...
I do not believe I had it, BUT the symptoms also mimicked the issues I was having backpacking through the mountains in record breaking heat...  I did not lose the sense of smell or taste, so I'm going with a 'no' or asymptomatic...
-Cough, runny nose  (Slight cough I attributed to unfamiliar plants in bloom)
-Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
-Fatigue
-Muscle or body aches
-Headache
-Nausea or vomiting

That's my symptons  minus the breathing

Quote from: flybynight on July 15, 2022, 01:07:45 PM

Quote from: SCBrian on July 15, 2022, 10:58:34 AMFWIW, my wife had it a few weeks ago.  ~48 hours and done.  She drove me to where I was backpacking (About 4 hours) went home, started feeling ill, and tested positive the next day. 2 days later, she was good-to-go...
I do not believe I had it, BUT the symptoms also mimicked the issues I was having backpacking through the mountains in record breaking heat...  I did not lose the sense of smell or taste, so I'm going with a 'no' or asymptomatic...
-Cough, runny nose  (Slight cough I attributed to unfamiliar plants in bloom)
-Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
-Fatigue
-Muscle or body aches
-Headache
-Nausea or vomiting

That's my symptons  minus the breathing

Ya, my laugh is it all mimics backpacking through strenuous terrain in record breaking weather  
So I've joked about the possibility that it wasnt the heat exhaustion, but Covid that took me off trail

Quote from: flybynight on July 14, 2022, 11:15:40 AMJust tested positive

How ya doing @flybynight? It's been four days since we heard from you.

Still picking Daisies, rather than pushing them up. As crappy as I felt last week. Covid is rather anticlimactic

Quote from: flybynight on July 19, 2022, 05:01:43 AMStill picking Daisies, rather than pushing them up. As crappy as I felt last week. Covid is rather anticlimactic

Awesome! What a good thing to hear. (not the crappy part, I mean) And once again another cool turn of a phrase; still picking them not pushing them up.

!!!

Between Sunday and Monday, our produce manager, her daughter (who also works in produce), her daughters boyfriend AND his brother (again, they both work in the produce department), the brothers girlfriend (who works with me in the front end), two of our baggers (both female), one of the baggers husbands (he manages a local gas station), the other baggers mom and sister, the baggers moms current boyfriend, the baggers sisters best friend....

Okay, what happened:
It all started with ONE guy, Jerry, who is a blowhard *from away* (as we say up here). He got it after going to Boston for something and was in really crowded environments while there. He came back here and gave it to his wife, Nancy. The girlfriend Hannah (my co-worker) of her son Brett (produce person) spent the night at their house and their other son Andrew (also produce person)0, went to spend the night with his girlfriend Nicole (daughter of our produce manager Kim)....so on and on it goes...

I've tested positive again. I am so unhappy.

Climbing fever, sore throat, Massive Head Ache. Bl. oxygen begining to trend below 95. Nothing worrisome at this time unless it keeps doing so.

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on August 31, 2022, 11:25:37 PMI've tested positive again. I am so unhappy.

Climbing fever, sore throat, Massive Head Ache. Bl. oxygen begining to trend below 95. Nothing worrisome at this time unless it keeps doing so.

Sorry to hear that, Ever. Seems like I'm hearing of more and more instances of repeat infections, including a few within my own social bubble.  This COVID is one MF-ing persistent bug.  Hang in there.

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on August 31, 2022, 11:25:37 PMI've tested positive again. I am so unhappy.
Climbing fever, sore throat, Massive Head Ache. Bl. oxygen begining to trend below 95. Nothing worrisome at this time unless it keeps doing so.

You seem to have really bad luck despite being so careful.
 
Get well again soon!

COVID sitrep: we've got it

Incidence in the community is running at something like 1-in-30. I was on a training course with 16 strangers last week (a good course on the IATA DGR, I learned quite a bit and hope I passed the exam) and we joked on Day 1 that, statistically, there was at least one person in the room with COVID. In hindsight I suspect it was the young lady at the next desk with the big box of Kleenex ...

I got home from the course on Wednesday night feeling a bit off. That night was all weird fever dreams and Thursday morning I was dreadful - head bunged up, sinus pressure, headache, random other aches, all the usual flu-like symptoms. I took a lateral flow test and it came back positive.

On Saturday, Mrs Sheddi also tested positive although she was (and still is) asymptomatic. She's had symptomatic COVID before, but this is my first (unless I was really unlucky and the bug I had in early March 2020 was COVID). We both had our booster vaccinations last month (and those bring our vax totals to four each.)

There has been a slow but steady improvement since Thursday. Last night I slept well (2300 to 1000, with a couple of short interruptions!) and today I'm mostly functional.

I managed half-a-day of working-from-home today. I can't claim to have been especially productive but I mostly caught up with a week's communications and checked in with colleagues.

Good to hear from you @sheddi. Sorry it's a negative sitrep and all. Glad to hear you're beginning to mend and Mrs.Sheddi sailed smoothly through it though  

Ack. The sitrep re this wave of covid in my building is not my favorite. Remember aprx 90% of us are old to very old to elderly and we now have covid reporting on every floor, it's posted now rather than being word-of-mouth about what's going on.  One tenant went & has returned from hospital, several are having an extended hard time, one still completely down after seven days.

A friend here called me saying they've been ill and are in need so I scurried to help. What I walked in on was an apartment of a person who already has difficulty walking who had, unknown to me, been in bed for 50 hours but was sure it isn't covid, who hadn't been able to take care of themself. Using an adult potty chair by their bed which was full. The cat was upset and pooping everywhere but the box. Plus it was dirty and kleenexed and garbaged to the max. And I brought a lateral flow test even though they were sure it wasn't covid and the tests are notorious for false negatives.

Yep, covid.

So I did what anyone whose covid anxiety is high high high would do for their friend with covid when they need help: I gulped down two anxiety pills with a glass of wine, two cups of tea, and something else, then put on my PPE armor, grabbed a container of Clorox wipes, and made a good dent in cleaning their place. Getting them to call their insurance carrier who will come to the apartment tomorrow to do a PC test and drive them to the doctor and/or hospital for medicine or more. Totally Cool. But to have been in that apartment that kind of ill for that long scares me to think how that might be playing out in other parts of the building.

I know it scares me  to think of being in that position again.

Came home, sprayed or wiped all the keepable PPE and threw away the rest, took all my clothes and soaked them in bucket of 2/1 water/alcohol. (no inapartment washing machine)

Wait....  brb.....

LOL Back. Better. Typing about about my friend and their tiny apartment like mine filled with covid cooties that I stayed in for almost two hours!!! made me feel the urge to go get another glass of wine and something else to calm back down again.  LOL


Now... I start counting the days to see if I freaking caught it.  LOL

So this sitrep sucks

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on January 10, 2023, 03:26:00 AMSo I did what anyone whose covid anxiety is high high high would do for their friend with covid when they need help: I gulped down two anxiety pills with a glass of wine, two cups of tea, and something else, then put on my PPE armor, grabbed a container of Clorex wipes, and made a good dent in cleaning their place. Getting them to call their insurance carrier who will come to the apartment tomorrow to do a PC test and drive them to the doctor and/or hospital for medicine or more. Totally Cool. But to have been in that apartment that kind of ill for that long scares me to think how that might be playing out in other parts of the building.

That was a very generous and inherently good thing to do.

In my area we seem to have some sort of Upper Respiratory illness going around. 

I caught it before Thanksgiving and only last week stopped coughing. I was tested for covid twice and the flu once both were negative. It was not bad but initially low grade fever, stuffed up sinuses and coughing. 

   

Today is day three of the count since direct contact exposure and the counting need not continue further because...


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Positive lateral flow test

101.2 fever and rising. Getting ready to halt rise with an OTC.

sucks sucks sucks

Any possibility of getting a course of the Paxlovid through your doctor?  I think you have 3 days from onset of symptoms to start it.

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on January 12, 2023, 07:23:12 PMPositive lateral flow test

101.2 fever and rising. Getting ready to halt rise with an OTC.

sucks sucks sucks

What kind of mask were you wearing when you helped your sick friend ?

Quote from: EBuff75 on January 12, 2023, 07:55:23 PMAny possibility of getting a course of the Paxlovid through your doctor?  I think you have 3 days from onset of symptoms to start it.

I second this Ever. Don't poke this bear.