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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: guncrasher on December 29, 2020, 09:37:17 PM
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for those who think it's just like the flu, just compare it to this. get somebody to kick you in your buttt and somebody to kick you in your nuts and repeat , it's the same, it's just pain.
true that some get no symptoms, some get mild and some bad, and some bad enough to kill.
my wife got sick first it was just nothing, nausea, weakness, then just overnight, fever, couldnt even walk, called an ambulance and they took her. took me 2 days to even find out where she was at nurses wouldnt even answer the phone.
think the 3rd day, my memory is kind of hazy, they called me, she was positive and she was in not very good shape, doctor told me that she could breath on her own, but ordered breathing treatments anyway because of her lungs but mentally, she didnt know where she was, or why she was there. she had a couple of small unrelated problems too but the doctor wasnt concerned about them.
she was 5 days in the hospital when I started showing symptoms, for a few days I had a bit of temperature and pain in my body, vision was a bit blurry not a big deal, no problems breathing or anything like that. I had myself tested as soon as I found out my wife was positive and I was positive too. fever went up to like 101, called the doctor and he said as long as I have no problem breathing it would be best to just stay at home. if breathing was bad call an ambulance. ordered a bunch of water, gatoraid and protein shakes to be delived just in case I couldnt cook.
I really became worried when I was playing to get my mind in something else and I had a hard time holding the stick and pushing buttons. I was really dizzy and started having problems walking. constant headache that makes you wish you were dead. I draged a small fridge I have in my office to the sofa and filled it up with water, gatoraid and protein shakes. got all the vitamins I had and put them on the table next to me, brought a couple of blankets and all the towels I had put them on the sofa, not sure why.
the pain I had was bad, just to get up and walk, almost felt like crying. chest felt a little tight, but no cough no mucus. last week they sent my wife home, I told the doctor that I couldnt even take care of myself, he said normally she would be taken to a convalescent home but nobody would take here and it didnt matter anyway because there's no room anywhere. she had no fever, no trouble breathing, his main concerned was her mental status now as she only calmed down when she spoke to me. he was afraid if she stayed at the hospital she would get worst.
she was delivered by hospital transport, two guys brought her in and put her on the sofa. somehow we managed to help each other for 4 days. fever went down for me saturday i think, pain became more manageable. so I was able to help her more. she kept asking me to take her to the Jacuzzi, told her we dont have any, she was like well you let your friends use it, ask her who? she said the guy that plays the banjo, told her that's bbaw and we just joke about it in the game.
it's funny how creative you can get, I used plumber's pliers to open water bottles and protein shakes as I didnt have the strength to use my hands. used 2 belts and a small ladder to help my wife up to go to the bathroom as i have a bad back anyway. she used that to strengthen her legs too. she can pretty much walk on her own now. today they delivered a walker, we both started laughing, we could have used it last week.
so, yes if you ignore the pain, the never ending headache that now is gone, the loss of strength, my wife's mental confusion, which I hope goes away, yes it it just like the flu.
semp
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Glad to hear you and your wife are on the upswing, Semp. :salute
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Take it easy guy.
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Glad you both got better
The wife and I were both extremly sick last March
I think I had it as I had to sleep sitting up for a week and had no taste or smell for at least a week.
Was sick for a month, feeling so crappy I had to miss KOTH and work for a week which never happens.
All that said, having now had it, do you think the world should be shuttered to avoid it?
That it is so bad as to kill the worlds economy?
I do not
Eagler
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I'm about to.
My girl is a nurse doing covid testing and I set up a triage area in the garage "yes.......carpet" for her to get into the shower without bringing anything into the house.
This worked great for months but now she has it. She made it for 9 months without getting it in spite of people sneezing or coughing as she swabbed them.
So far, it's been pretty easy on her and I've not yet gotten it.
As far as rapid tests, 95% of the inaccuracy is in giving "false negative" results while the false positives are almost unheard of.
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Some people it seems to affect, many it seems to not be anything or at most like a cold.
If you have serious health issues stay home. The heathier folks will keep the world going till this clears up and you can rejoin.
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Someone married semp... Blink twice if you're there of your own volition and once if you require help.
Joking aside :eek: :salute
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Glad to hear you’re on the mend!
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thanks guys, wife is doing better, she just confuses the past with the present. she had an mri at the hospital but that came back negative, they suspected covid. there's a lot of things that doctors dont even know about this covid thing.
she's pretty smart, but she changed a bit, like she would never sleep with the tv on and now she wants it off. she got a different sense of humor than before, she never really liked to joke about sex, now she comes up with some really nasty jokes. she never liked history now she likes history shows, little things like that.
I cut her hair, she had a ball of hair in back of her head all tangle up because she couldnt brush it for almost 3 weeks, we tried shampoo and oils and nothing worked. she just asked me to cut it out. that was a big thing before, now she didnt care. I asked her you not worried what they're gonna say about you?, she said I dont give a crap what they think. before it was a big thing with her what people thought about her. her life revolved about others would say, not that she was vain, it was just the way she was. she's a really humble person that just tries to please others.
we could be talking then she looks around and say where did everybody went. then I have to explained that it was her birthday party back in may with 4 of our friends. or she will asked me where her brother went and then she'll remember that he passed away 4 years ago. little things like that.
I think she kind of likes the way she is now, some bad memories went away and that is a good thing. known her since 2001 not once she would let me put my arms around her close to her neck. now she just moves closer and pulls my arms towards her. guess she had a couple of bad relationships, but she forgot about them now.
anyway, I hope that she never remembers that bad past and creates new memories.
thanks for all the good wishes, :salute
semp
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Glad things are better but all that does not sound covid related
Be safe
Eagler
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Glad things are better but all that does not sound covid related
Be safe
Eagler
I asked the doctor that question, he said in some people it causes confusion. they don't really know how much the brain is affected.
spoke to him about 1/2 an hour, he was asking me all kinds of questions. he said basically everything else is ruled out, except for covid19. he doesn't know if it's permanent or temporary. a brain scan was negative.
semp
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Sounds like you’re mostly on the mend, but your wife has a way to go. Hoping and praying the neurological changes aren’t permanent except the ones you two think are for the better.
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Local CBS said only 131 ICU beds available in the whole state of AZ as of last night.
We decided against going to a New Year’s party last night for a few reasons, but the new strain identified and having about 20 people there was a big factor.
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Glad to hear things are better Semp. :)
One-eye
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thanks guys, my wife is just as smart as she has always been. just little things that sometimes she catches on, like asking about her brother and then saying, oh yeah he passed away, but I miss him. or asking me when we are gonna go home, then I tell her that's her grandparents home and they passed away 10 years ago. things where she confuses the past with the present, not all the time but sometimes. sometimes she amazes me, we were watching a documentary about an armored division in the south of france that was told to go and stop the allies in normandy, but on the way they destroyed a few french towns and basically killed everybody. she was like why did they waste that time to stop and kill people when they could have made a difference in normandy? I was like, not really sure, 2 minutes later on the show they said they wasted too much time and by the time they made it to normandy it was too late. she never really liked to watch anything related to history. now she's interested in it. then she'll ask about hey when did so and so left. and I have no idea what she's talking about.
as for another thing, our city had a low rate of infection and death, but it's getting higher and higher. we live in a place where if you cross a street it's a different city if you go north and south on that same block then it's two different cities. when my wife was put on an ambulance they sat in the parking lot for 2 hours waiting for ok to go to the hospital. now I see waits of up to 8 hours to go to the hospital. I hear things of people not being infected but have to be at the hospital put in the gift shops as they have no more room. the biggest hospital in the county is 1 block from us and they have no space anymore. same for the other 3 hospitals nearby.
they say california has the, for the life of me I cant remembr the word, in the usa, but the truth people arent following it since thanksgiving. a bar nearby had all the bartenders, 5, in june infected, they're still open packing 100 people at night. most of the legions did the right thing and closed including mine, after I called and told them my wife was infected and most likely got it from me, they closed. 7 people there tested positive 4 went to the hospital, 1 death. we are a small post with maybe 20 to 30 regulars.
most people in the city dont give a crap, they figured out that since our city and others nearby didnt have many deaths from march to september that it's not a big deal.
now it's a big deal. but people gonna do what they want to do.
semp
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Glad to hear you are still improving
As you are sharing quite a bit here, can I ask a question here without sounding cold or too personsal?
How would you describe you and the wifes health before this started?
Eagler
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nothing out of the ordinary except injuries. my wife does have bad lungs. maybe a little overweight. both of us. that's about it.
my semp
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My girl had it and we didn't leave the house for 12 days as she passed through her case.
She had no symptoms until she felt unwell at work and tested positive. That night she said her "hair hurts" and got a genuine headache that lasted 6 days.
Her lungs were congested the first couple of days but that cleared up.
She did say she is exhausted whenever she does anything.
What amazes me is that I either have no symptoms or I just didn't catch it...........but I did wear a mask 24/7 until yesterday.
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See rule 14
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Once again moving another icepac post from "Current Affairs" to "Fiction".
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My girl had it and we didn't leave the house for 12 days as she passed through her case.
She had no symptoms until she felt unwell at work and tested positive. That night she said her "hair hurts" and got a genuine headache that lasted 6 days.
Her lungs were congested the first couple of days but that cleared up.
She did say she is exhausted whenever she does anything.
What amazes me is that I either have no symptoms or I just didn't catch it...........but I did wear a mask 24/7 until yesterday.
I have heard a very similar story from a middle aged woman.
A friend recently lost his smell with no other symptoms. Tested negative for covid and positive for influenza B.
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Interesting stories, data if you will, about covid vaccines.
Man dies of stroke that looks to be tied to Pfizer vaccine
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEKU68aqlxv1cVl7FDCSdL0sqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow3oP-CjCIx_YCMMq63AU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
Moderna think vaccine may las a couple years.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/moderna-ceo-covid-19-vaccine-likely-protect-couple-years
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I know 6 ppl who went to get the test but decided otherwise once they signed in and saw the wait
Though they were not tested each of them received their positive test results a week later
Eagler
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I know 6 ppl who went to get the test but decided otherwise once they signed in and saw the wait
Though they were not tested each of them received their positive test results a week later
Eagler
Even folks with negative tests are listed as positive.
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Deleted per semps request to avoid possible lock
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Eagler
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I know 6 ppl who went to get the test but decided otherwise once they signed in and saw the wait
Though they were not tested each of them received their positive test results a week later
Eagler
I know people who have had this happen too.
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I know 6 ppl who went to get the test but decided otherwise once they signed in and saw the wait
Though they were not tested each of them received their positive test results a week later
Eagler
around here they don't sign you in, until you they are going to let you in the building. if you have an appointment your total time is about 20 minutes from the time you get there till you get out.
I don't see how your friends registered and left. much less how they got a test result since they didn't have their info.
here the test tube doesn't have a name just a number. the number is linked to your info but the lab doesn't have access. you get a text or email, as soon as the results are available.
fast tests are a bit different, it takes 20 minutes for the results but you can't wait for the results. they're texted or emailed to you.
as for tests being changed from neg to pos, labs get paid to test not for each pos test.
semp
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If masks work and we have been >95% compliant why do we have record infections today a year later?
Maybe they don't and it is all hogwash about they do?
Or is it all the "super spreader" events we should blame.
.??
Eagler
I respectfully ask you guys to stop posting bs. only made this thread to see if anybody else had similar results as my wife. I'm trying to find at least one and compare see if it's permanent or temporary. I don't want this thread locked.
thanks
semp
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Sure thing semp - hope you both make a full recovery
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Eagler
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If masks work and we have been >95% compliant why do we have record infections today a year later?
Maybe they don't and it is all hogwash about they do?
Or is it all the "super spreader" events we should blame.
.??
Eagler
I highly doubt that 'we' as a country have been greater than 95% compliant. Source?
Cases seemingly started to rise again at the end of summer, presumably from a combination of things such as fatigue (from not being able to do much of anything) or various parties/gatherings where more than likely these folks would not be wearing a mask at said gathering. You've got kids home from school, kids home from college, bars/restaurants are open, Halloween parties, Thanksgiving gatherings, Christmas gatherings, New Year's parties.
It will be what it will be at this point.
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The disease triangle is pest-host-enviroment. So do not forget about the two parts of the triangle pest and environment. There is much we do not know.
One interesting observation is that cases are spiking in many different places, to explain all of that with a social guess is almost unrealistic.
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I respectfully ask you guys to stop posting bs. only made this thread to see if anybody else had similar results as my wife. I'm trying to find at least one and compare see if it's permanent or temporary. I don't want this thread locked.
thanks
semp
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What's the problem?
I assume duration would depend on where damage was done and how well can the body repair it.
Also, virus infection has been known to trigger almost unrelated disease. Like late onset type 1 diabetes.
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deleted as I saw the post above. Not sure what NAT considers BS...
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Am I the only one that wants to know why guncrasher and bbaw are talking about sharing a jacuzzi?
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deleted as I saw the post above. Not sure what NAT considers BS...
It's all b.s. buddy. :aok
If it was real, I'd have to charge. ;)
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LOL