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John[_6_]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:47:48 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:35:06 -0400, RCE wrote:

On 6/21/2020 6:40 AM, John wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:45:55 -0400, wrote:

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.

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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 was
working for IBM.

I remember when the Navy first started allowing
beards and mustaches. It was in the Zumwalt days
(1970 or so). You had to submit a request chit
to grow even a mustache. When Zumwalt relaxed
the Navy grooming policies everyone was submitting
a request chit. I remember an old, crusty CPO
saying he couldn't understand why people wanted
to purposely grow something under their nose
that grew wild around their assholes. :-)

I had a Maynard G Krebs goatee on my "Bravo" patrol and they pointed
out trimming a beard defeated the purpose of growing it in the first
place (no shaving). It was still OK. When I started the current one in
1973 it was full and still is. With the lock down I haven't really
done anything with my hair so I am looking like the GEICO cave man
right now. Now that the novelty has subsided I may go to a barber soon
tho. There was a 5 hour wait, then by appointment only, when they
first opened. I assume by now you can just walk in.

Ours still require appointments.

Same here.

I usually go to an old time barber shop and as soon as people get back
into their normal routine, I expect it will be walk in and wait or
just walk in and sit in the barber chair. I understand they don't want
a lot of people sitting around waiting.

The place I go has chairs out front, just like in the old days. No one waits
inside.
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