I did not know. How are you holding up?
Are you extreme isolating?
My girl, as I write this, is on the front lines testing people for coronavirus.
I doubt we can both avoid getting it so we're hoping receiving minimum virus particles at time of infection will make for a mild case.
I set up a "triage unit" in the garage with carpet and mood lighting where she can drive in, shed her clothes, disinfect her hands and face (only parts exposed) and run inside for a shower.
Then we clean her car, shoes, doorknobs on the house, and wash her clothes.
Then we clean again.
I originally had a gastrointestinal issue in late january from using our wellwater for brushing my teeth when part of our system (the UV light chamber) was malfunctioning.
I'm 57 and it presented just like a heart attack at 4:00 am so we went in.
My left arm bicep was cramping but that was probably from the extreme raking and sweeping I did the day before.
I actually passed out during receiving and knew it was coming as the tingling started in fingers and feet before progressing until my entire body was tingling except my chest......which still hurt.
When tunnel vision started in, I used same process pilots use to keep from gLoc and my vision opened back up but after 9 or 10 times, I laid down on the floor with my knees up and got one more full field of vision before the darkness came. Luckily, I had empty bowels and bladder and woke up in a chair.
They told me I was mumbling and playing air guitar before I fully regained consciousness.
They kept me for 2 days of tests and observation while I did all the tests with treadmill and such with imaging and two types of radioactive isotopes.........one injected and one oral.
I figured they would recommend stents or a bypass since I exist on bacon, captain crunch, and oreos but they said my arteries looked great and there was zero indication of heart muscle damage.
I tested negative for the flu and they released me.
Started feeling only marginally better for about a day at home until I presented classic flu symptoms. It hit hard and I spent two weeks in bed. I felt the very beginnings of lung issues just as I recovered but not enough to show up when listening with a stethoscope. It went away in 2 days but I coughed up stuff for 2 weeks after.
I'm hoping my coronavirus case will feel much the same or less severe and am already gargling mouthwash and such but I haven't yet convinced my girl that I need shots of whiskey as a preventative measure.
It was hard enough to convince her that we may need guns until I found a cheap broken gun in her lingerie drawer and fixed it up. As of yesterday, she wants more guns.....LOL.
I also got a large cylinder of oxygen "for my welder" and surgical tubing but it's really there in case either of us run into low O2 levels in our blood before we can secure professional medical help.
We won't let it give us a false sense of security but rather use it to deal with what would probably be a long wait for treatment. The plan is to do our waiting in the car with the cylinder while we wait for a text from the hospital that treatment is available though we might have to wait longer at home...........hence the cylinder.
I huffed it like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet a few days ago and no bad tastes or negative effects other than pretty intense drying so work out a way to combat that.
If you guys have any ideas.....let me know.