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Been down for the count
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:10:10 -0400, Alex wrote:
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. I've had bronchitis twice and both times were within days after getting off of a plane. When we get on the plane, the first thing we do is wipe down everything we can touch with sanitizing wipes. In a first class seat you are also more isolated than being jammed up in coach. I guess I was social distancing before it was cool. |
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#33
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On 6/21/2020 6:43 AM, John wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:23:33 -0400, RCE wrote: On 6/20/2020 5:50 PM, wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:30:31 -0400, RCE wrote: On 6/20/2020 3:47 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 04:20:47 -0400, RCE wrote: On 6/19/2020 10:10 PM, Alex wrote: 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.Â* Obviously, covid-19 came to mind but fortunately no. Started with two days of low energy, tiredness but no other symptoms.Â* 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.Â* Wednesday night same thing only worse.Â* No appetite. Wife went out and got 6 quart bottles of Gateraid.Â* 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.Â* 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.Â* Tuned the tv to one of the music channels and just listened to it.Â* Much better. Get tested again.Â* I know people that got a positive result on try #3. I hope that isn't the case for you! I never got tested for covid-19. If it had lasted a day or two longer without signs of improvement, I planned to. But, it followed the typical course of the flu and I am on the mend. An antibody test might still be in order. In spite of all the scary rhetoric, for most people, this is just the worst flu you can remember or maybe just a mild cold. Fauci said early on he expected 80% to get over this spontaneously and now they are bumping that percentage higher. We really only hear about the ones who end up being really sick or dying. That Marion prison thing was interesting. The infection rate was extremely high but 95% didn't even know they had it. My wife said she was reading that certain blood types were having a harder time with this. "O+" was the best to have and "A" was the worst according to what she read. We are both O+ so it gives us a little more hope. The news had a story about the testing here last night. It turns out our county is a little over 7% positive on the tests and the county just north of us is 5 sumpin. It starts getting pretty grim as you move east across the sugar cane country tho. The worst was Palm Beach County at over 20% (Belle Glade, not the "old Jews in the condos on the beach" that Bill Maher talks about). Talked to our primary MD and she said, antibody testing is a crapshoot. True false maybe are the results and not repeatable. Plus, a negative test today doesn't mean I couldn't catch it tomorrow. I think the only proven benefit of all the antibody testing is to generate more data as to how many people have been infected with covid. Many apparently have been but never knew it. The "immunity" thing is still being debated by the experts who have basically been wrong about just about *everything* so far. For a while ol' doc Fauci and doc Birx were the heros of the day with all their data collection, algorithms and resultant predictions. Seems they have pretty much dropped out of sight. If it were up to Fauci, the nation (and world) would stay in an economic lockdown until a safe and proven to be effective vaccine is developed. Even if that happened, who's gonna foot the bill to distribute it? Nobody will have any money. Science is great but so is logic and common sense. Unfortunately, academics don't view things that way. === To make matters worse, the whole thing has become politicized like so many other things. That be true. Both sides. The more I listen to Trump the more I dislike him. He's the biggest bull****ter out there. But come November who are you gonna call? Bad situation we are in. And I don't think he helped himself at all last night. Seemed more like a narcissists wet dream. Or the Trump Comedy Hour -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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#34
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On 6/21/2020 10:40 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:10:10 -0400, Alex wrote: 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. I've had bronchitis twice and both times were within days after getting off of a plane. When we get on the plane, the first thing we do is wipe down everything we can touch with sanitizing wipes. In a first class seat you are also more isolated than being jammed up in coach. I guess I was social distancing before it was cool. I have a much simpler solution. I don't get on airplanes. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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#35
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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. === 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. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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#36
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Been down for the count
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:21:31 -0400, RCE wrote:
On 6/21/2020 10:40 AM, wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:10:10 -0400, Alex wrote: 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. I've had bronchitis twice and both times were within days after getting off of a plane. When we get on the plane, the first thing we do is wipe down everything we can touch with sanitizing wipes. In a first class seat you are also more isolated than being jammed up in coach. I guess I was social distancing before it was cool. I have a much simpler solution. I don't get on airplanes. We are not rich enough to charter a plane to go out west. I would if I could tho. I suspect our traveling days may be over, at least for a while. I have a hard time getting my wife in a car and a plane is out of the question. It is a dramatic turn around for us. We used to go out west every year and hike around in the mountains for 2 or 3 weeks. |
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#37
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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. === 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. |
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#38
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:21:31 -0400, RCE wrote: On 6/21/2020 10:40 AM, wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:10:10 -0400, Alex wrote: 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. I've had bronchitis twice and both times were within days after getting off of a plane. When we get on the plane, the first thing we do is wipe down everything we can touch with sanitizing wipes. In a first class seat you are also more isolated than being jammed up in coach. I guess I was social distancing before it was cool. I have a much simpler solution. I don't get on airplanes. We are not rich enough to charter a plane to go out west. I would if I could tho. I suspect our traveling days may be over, at least for a while. I have a hard time getting my wife in a car and a plane is out of the question. It is a dramatic turn around for us. We used to go out west every year and hike around in the mountains for 2 or 3 weeks. If you go to Idaho, nice trail map by the state. https://trails.idaho.gov |
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#39
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:21:31 -0400, RCE wrote:On 6/21/2020 10:40 AM, wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:10:10 -0400, Alex wrote: 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. I've had bronchitis twice and both times were within days after getting off of a plane. When we get on the plane, the first thing we do is wipe down everything we can touch with sanitizing wipes. In a first class seat you are also more isolated than being jammed up in coach. I guess I was social distancing before it was cool. I have a much simpler solution.I don't get on airplanes.We are not rich enough to charter a plane to go out west. I would if Icould tho.I suspect our traveling days may be over, at least for a while.I have a hard time getting my wife in a car and a plane is out of thequestion. It is a dramatic turn around for us. We used to go out westevery year and hike around in the mountains for 2 or 3 weeks. I can send you pictures if you like. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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Been down for the count
On 6/21/2020 4:44 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:21:31 -0400, RCE wrote: On 6/21/2020 10:40 AM, wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:10:10 -0400, Alex wrote: 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. I've had bronchitis twice and both times were within days after getting off of a plane. When we get on the plane, the first thing we do is wipe down everything we can touch with sanitizing wipes. In a first class seat you are also more isolated than being jammed up in coach. I guess I was social distancing before it was cool. I have a much simpler solution. I don't get on airplanes. We are not rich enough to charter a plane to go out west. I would if I could tho. I suspect our traveling days may be over, at least for a while. I have a hard time getting my wife in a car and a plane is out of the question. It is a dramatic turn around for us. We used to go out west every year and hike around in the mountains for 2 or 3 weeks. It happens. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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