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Justan Ohlphart[_4_]

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On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 04:18:17 -0400, RCE wrote:On 6/19/2020 10:26 PM, wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:07:08 -0400, RCE wrote: On 6/19/2020 4:13 PM, wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:32:58 -0400, wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:18:45 -0400, RCE wrote: Despite getting both a flu shot and a pneumonia shot and practicing social distancing and wearing a mask on the few visits to grocery stores for over two months, I caught a flu type virus earlier this week. I don't get sick very often ... in fact I can't even remember the last time I had the flu ... but this one knocked me for a loop. Obviously, covid-19 came to mind but fortunately no. Started with two days of low energy, tiredness but no other symptoms. Then, Tuesday morning I felt extremely fatigued. By Tuesday afternoon I was in bed with all the chills, aches, coughing and everything else that comes with the flu. Tuesday night sweated buckets. Wednesday night same thing only worse. No appetite. Wife went out and got 6 quart bottles of Gateraid. Forced myself to drink as much as I could. Finally, Thursday I started to feel some strength returning. Stayed in bed anyway. This morning feeling much better. I lost almost 14 lbs though over a week. Flu is not nice to 70 year olds. I'd watch (or sorta listen) to the news on different channels and all that did was make me feel worse. Tuned the tv to one of the music channels and just listened to it. Much better. === Glad to hear that you're feeling better - beware the relapse however. It's a low blow to have caught it after all of your precautions. My last bout of the flu was 6 years ago after a January round trip flight to New York. It was just about the sickest I'd ever been and I'm not sure I'd survive a repeat performance. We take all the precautions very seriously. I've known two people who died from the flu, both middle aged and previously healthy. I guess I am overdue but I haven't had a nasty flu or even a bad cold since I retired. I do tend to social distance and wash my hands a lot, long before it was cool. When I was in DC a nasty cold, flu or something was a constant thing all winter and sometimes even a summer thing. Working in dozens of different accounts all the time exposed me to lots of germs I suppose and DC is as bad as New York for collecting germs from across the globe, maybe even worse. That beard and mustache probably filters out all the nasty germs. :-) It didn't work for a decade in DC. My worst bug was some bronchitis I had the whole time I was in FT "A" school. Lots of us had it. In retrospect I wonder if it was something in those nasty "temporary" WWII barracks. The USCG allowed beards back then?At sea but the 10 years I was referring to (more like 11, 73-84) I wasworking for IBM.I remember when the Navy first started allowingbeards and mustaches. It was in the Zumwalt days(1970 or so). You had to submit a request chitto grow even a mustache. When Zumwalt relaxedthe Navy grooming policies everyone was submittinga request chit. I remember an old, crusty CPOsaying he couldn't understand why people wantedto purposely grow something under their nosethat grew wild around their assholes. :-)I had a Maynard G Krebs goatee on my "Bravo" patrol and they pointedout trimming a beard defeated the purpose of growing it in the firstplace (no shaving). It was still OK. When I started the current one in1973 it was full and still is. With the lock down I haven't reallydone anything with my hair so I am looking like the GEICO cave manright now. Now that the novelty has subsided I may go to a barber soontho. There was a 5 hour wait, then by appointment only, when theyfirst opened. I assume by now you can just walk in.

Lets hope they will accept you as a customer. Who knows what
critters are lurking in your whiskers.
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