Coronavirus 5 - Last Blood

[think positive]

No way I can handle Coke, so I swigged Evan Williams Kentucky bourbon and gargled, damn brilliant!

[pietillidie]

Damn, hang in there, TP. I too have managed to avoid it, but I live like a hermit because of my immunosuppressant medication, although I expect to catch it sooner of later.

Any noticeable differences to a bad flu?

[think positive]

Cheers mate thanks.

So I don’t really get deathly sick, I get a lot of run of the mill colds and occasionally man flu. I haven’t even had chicken pox despite how hard my mum tried to get me to catch it! Hubby brought home influenza A from Alaska, I got it and it was awful, i was fatigued for a month. This is completely different.

Started feeling a little crap Wednesday, woke up Thursday in tears, got junior (who I now suspect was recovering from the same covid) to take me to the doctor. I took her to the same guy 3 times, gastro then the flu twice in 2 weeks, and I saw him too and not once did he mention covid or tests! My doc is in yarraville and hard to get into, so this is the quick clinic nearby. Got antibiotics, went back to bed, all up I pretty much slept 36 hours straight. I barely sleep 7 hours a night! Friday I was watching tv and my eldest called, she had covid and similar symptoms. So I took a test, then another! Both lit up like a Christmas tree straight away.

Symptoms are damn awful! Like nothing I have experienced. The worst being a pounding upper headache, and blurry vision. All three of us have had that. Mine is almost ok now, comes and goes. Extreme tiredness, hot sweats, I’ve got a summer and winter doona on our king sized bed and I swap depending on if I’m freezing or burning up. I’ve worn3 tshirts til they dripped with sweat. I’m wobbly on my feet, I’m mainly staying in my room (bedroom ensuite is 11 metres by 4.5 metres, I can’t imagine now how people in tiny quarantine quarters survived!) . Occasionally if no one’s home I’ll take geriatric Molly down stairs to go potty, but then I have to sit for awhile to recover. Trying not to touch the banister is fun, I’m so dizzy. I did 3 laps around the pool this morning, and needed a nap! Took another test today, still positive. Every muscle in my body is sore, steamroller sore. I had a bath but that drained me more. I can still smell and taste thankfully. Could only stomach peanut butter toast for the first 2 days, had a little beef and veg cooked by hubby last night, and soaked overnight oats and grains with Greek yogurt for Brekky. I lost 2 kg by sheer determination, and now I’m down another 1.5, seeing numbers I thought were long gone which is nice! I’m thirsty, so so thirsty, I’m drinking about 10 big glasses of water a day, plus juice with iron tonic. My skin, lips and mouth feel so dehydrated, sore ears and blocked sinus’s tops it off! I would not with this on my worst enemy. It’s so so bad.

Day 4 and praying I’m on the mend.

[Culprit]

^^Shit it sounds like the Man Flu and us guys know how bad that is. Hope you are on the improve. A friend who's a Nurse in the ER says a common symptom now is hay fever. People who never have hay fever are presenting with symptoms and it's Covid.

Mid-December an updated vaccine will be available for the new variants and that's becoming the norm like the flu shot.

[David]

[think positive]

Man flu is sooky flu, this is not sooky flu! This is will I pass out if I get up too fast flu. It’s quite scary. Having cold sweats for 4 days straight now, it’s easing, but not much. He gave me a slip for a chest X-ray, and as soon as I test negative I’m going to get one, then I’ll go see my real doctor in yarraville. I know several people who have on going problems from covid back in the lockdown times, I’m not taking any chances, I’ll do everything I can to get completely well. I’m not a good patient!

David my friend across the road works at the children’s hospital, COVID is ramping up. Little guy like you can’t afford to lose any kg, stay healthy mate!

Honestly,I can’t put into words how awful the past 4 days have been, the chills, fever, muscle pain, thirst, tiredness, blurry vision, headaches and nausea are overwhelming.

I will definitely be wearing a mask in shops and using sanitiser again.

[Culprit]

^^Good idea, get checked over. I know so many people who have "Long Covid" and still struggle. Mind you most denied Covid ever existed and only had the mandatory vaccines as a last resort. They refuse to have anymore as in their minds and many others, "Covid is over".

[stui magpie]

^^Shit it sounds like the Man Flu and us guys know how bad that is. Hope you are on the improve. A friend who's a Nurse in the ER says a common symptom now is hay fever. People who never have hay fever are presenting with symptoms and it's Covid.

Mid-December an updated vaccine will be available for the new variants and that's becoming the norm like the flu shot.

Interesting. I never used to get hayfever but for the past few months if I don't take a hayfever tablet as soon as I get up I'd go through 3-4 hankies or a box of tissues blowing shit out of my nose and sneezing. 1 tablet in the morning and I'm fine all day.

[Pies4shaw]

[think positive]

^^Good idea, get checked over. I know so many people who have "Long Covid" and still struggle. Mind you most denied Covid ever existed and only had the mandatory vaccines as a last resort. They refuse to have anymore as in their minds and many others, "Covid is over".

I’ve had 5 vaccines!

My sister was 2nd in charge of the COVID squad when all the shit went down with the entitled arseholes at the shrine. She still has days where it comes back to haunt her. My accountant is still under going a maintenance plan from her doctor, she was a gym goer, and it smashed her hard. She slowly getting back into it.

After the flu and some recurring knee pain instances, I’ve been back in the gym, feeling like me pre menopause and now this happens! My hubby is high risk, and it’s only really today that I think he realises how badly this is affecting me. People just don’t realise, I sure didn’t! I’m shocked at what I’ve been through! It’s damn horrible! And I’m fairly fit, never more than 5kg overweight, non smoker, naturally low blood pressure.

I’ll never take my good health for granted again!

15 years, 10 months and three weeks old Molly my tiny 3.4kg poodle thinks this is heaven! I guess that’s the silver lining!

[Culprit]

I've had 5 and wanted a 6th and was advised that it's not necessary. All the young workers I work with who have gone down with Covid lately have had minimum vaccinations and are very blase about infection and infecting others. Take Care.

[think positive]

Cheers mate thanks

That’s the problem, people are not scared anymore and they should be. It is not just the flu! Far from it I’m finding!!

I guess it’s going to take capacity ICU units for people to realise it!

[Culprit]

^^People have zoned out of information. That happened during Covid thanks to the media. This morning I was greeted by an email that a work get-together Friday has resulted in a mini Covid event. 17 people have tested positive over the weekend and that's expected to rise. I didn't go and looks like I have dodged another bullet.

[LaurieHolden]

I'm concerned we'd be closer to lock-downs with peak travel over Xmas about to ramp up, but I don't think any Gov't would have the political will to tinker with the community again, it'll soon become a flashpoint.

I don't want to be a prophet of doom, but as you've indicated Culprit, there's certainly some complacency out there.
Like TP, some people in my social groups have been smashed by this current covid virus, and some with a flu.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ ... r-AA1kz66i

[Culprit]

I'm concerned we'd be closer to lock-downs with peak travel over Xmas about to ramp up, but I don't think any Gov't would have the political will to tinker with the community again, it'll soon become a flashpoint.

I don't want to be a prophet of doom, but as you've indicated Culprit, there's certainly some complacency out there.
Like TP, some people in my social groups have been smashed by this current covid virus, and some with a flu.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ ... r-AA1kz66i

Lockdowwns won't happen again due to the vaccine uptake, most people are vaccinated in some way. Yes, people are getting sick, however, they are not dying like when it first hit.