EAllusion wrote:For me? It's just a tingly sensation in my throat that makes me cough every few min coupled with a sensation that's not right, but isn't painful. I'm pretty damn worried I'm going to be in the poor outcome group, though.
ETA: More like every min now that I think about it. It's not oppressive. Just persistent.
Okay. Reaching into my little bag of tricks over here but you may have already run these by your PCP.
Z-pak? Tessalon Perles? A short course of Pred?
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EAllusion wrote:For me? It's just a tingly sensation in my throat that makes me cough every few min coupled with a sensation that's not right, but isn't painful. I'm pretty damn worried I'm going to be in the poor outcome group, though.
ETA: More like every min now that I think about it. It's not oppressive. Just persistent.
Okay. Reaching into my little bag of tricks over here but you may have already run these by your PCP.
Z-pak? Tessalon Perles? A short course of Pred?
I don't think I need to treat the cough. If this is COVID, which seems awfully likely, I need to survive the other part. I'm not old, but not young. The death rate in my cohort is very low, but the hospitalization rate is a lot higher than I like. I'm rattled by the fact that my respiratory system already didn't feel up to snuff. I was anxious about it before it hit home.
In less personally terrifying news and more generally terrifying news, I know the local hospital my partner works at is already rationing face masks by having nurses reuse them again and again. So if you read a story about that nationally, it's happening here locally.
The failure to mobilize here is sickening (no macabre pun intended).
EAllusion wrote:In less personally terrifying news and more generally terrifying news, I know the local hospital my partner works at is already rationing face masks by having nurses reuse them again and again. So if you read a story about that nationally, it's happening here locally.
The failure to mobilize here is sickening (no macabre pun intended).
One of my RN friends posted on her Facebook that they are being encouraged to wear---bandanas and scarves to work now.
I can tell you too, that global animal rescue crafter groups are being asked to make face masks. I'll try to come up with the text of that post tomorrow or whenever.
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Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
EAllusion wrote:I don't think I need to treat the cough. If this is COVID, which seems awfully likely, I need to survive the other part. I'm not old, but not young. The death rate in my cohort is very low, but the hospitalization rate is a lot higher than I like. I'm rattled by the fact that my respiratory system already didn't feel up to snuff. I was anxious about it before it hit home.
I feel horrible for you. I realized how much this is all getting to me today while driving to Walmart when I felt like I was about to pass out. While driving. Driving! But, as soon as I started going about my actual business I felt perfectly fine.
No doubt but that this is getting to all of us to one degree or another. You have good reason for concern. I hope the best for you, EA.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
EAllusion wrote:I don't think I need to treat the cough. If this is COVID, which seems awfully likely, I need to survive the other part. I'm not old, but not young. The death rate in my cohort is very low, but the hospitalization rate is a lot higher than I like. I'm rattled by the fact that my respiratory system already didn't feel up to snuff. I was anxious about it before it hit home.
I hope that you rapidly recover from whatever it is you have with no lasting post recovery consequences. If what you have is really covid-19, and you recover fully without passing it on to anyone else, that is actually a good thing for you, I would think. You probably would then be immune from subsequent exposure, and there would be one less person around who could potentially infect others. The idea of being a recovered covid-19 victim myself appeals to me for that reason, but I guess it's not worth taking the risk of exposure, since I happen to be in one of the more vulnerable age groups. My wife is particularly paranoid about the idea of me continuing my regular walks around town for that reason. I hate the idea of foregoing that pleasurable exercise!
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My son developed a low-grade fever last night. No other symptoms, he's his usual perky self and in good spirits. No one else in the house has any symptoms yet. The fever goes down with acetaminophen. Monitoring him.
I was going to take him to the doctor today, but they just called me and said they don't even want me coming in for my prenatal appointment tomorrow (this despite my preeclampsia risk), so I cancelled his appointment, too.
Really hope you and your partner recover soon, EAllusion.
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Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.