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Post by questa on Jun 2, 2017 23:36:20 GMT
So THAT'S what an appendix is for. No-one has found a reason for this rudimentary piece of bowel. I imagine aeons ago some stay-at-home gene entered the helix to discourage overseas travel. Then flight and jumbo jets made this gene obsolete...so they invented Heathrow...
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Post by tod2 on Jun 9, 2017 14:43:15 GMT
So sorry to hear you have been 'poorly' as the British describe illness. Up until this very moment I have been devoid of a computer that can get me online. Not only that I popped into Kruger Park last week and returned last Sunday - to find intermittent access to the Internet. I hope you are your old self again.
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Post by rikita on Jun 26, 2017 8:11:39 GMT
i suffered from motion sickness a lot as a kid - though it might not only have been motion but also smell, the cars we had when i was little always had gasoline smell, and i didn't get as sick in cars from the "west" ... these days i am usually fine, except on some occasions. on my last vacation i took medication before longer car rides, because i already had a few stomach problems anyway ... ah, and agnes threw up on one car ride which went through very curvy mountain roads, but then was fine the rest of the time ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 29, 2019 6:38:55 GMT
I spent the best part of the night on the toilet and have already visited 3 more times since getting up. The body is an amazing thing, always managing to squeeze out a few more drops even when it seems that there is nothing left inside of you.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 29, 2019 7:36:38 GMT
That's horrible. Hope that gets out of your system quickly.
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Post by bjd on Jan 29, 2019 9:58:34 GMT
Lots of bugs going around these days. Lots of flu and I am just getting over a bout of bronchitis. Hope you feel better soon, Kerouac.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 29, 2019 10:14:05 GMT
I always get over this stuff within 24 hours, and it just started last night around 22:00. Actually, I feel pretty much fine now, but I just don't want to eat anything for the moment.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 29, 2019 14:50:43 GMT
Food poisoning, K2? Did you pull a mystery container from the Fridgidaire and consume it? Be well.
I made a pot of chili 2 nights ago and as I was gathering up the cans for recycling (2 types of beans, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, etc), I noticed the tomato sauce I had already committed to the pot was dated March 2013. Almost 6 years outdated!
Gave it a sniff-kind of metallic but not foul. I didn’t recall hearing a whoosh or hiss on opening any of the cans. Took a small taste of the chili and resumed making dinner. I was still alive at dinner time, so I served it to both of us. We survived.
When I do something like this I often leave the offending item at the top of the kitchen trash can, so the medical investigators have an easier time explaining our mysterious demise...
BTW, there are 3 more cans purchased at the same time in the pantry. Guess I’d better make spaghetti soon!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2019 15:12:04 GMT
I always get over this stuff within 24 hours, and it just started last night around 22:00. Actually, I feel pretty much fine now, but I just don't want to eat anything for the moment. If I were you, I would go get a bottle of Gatorade -- also some club soda & plain crackers, while you‘e out. Kimby --is the making of spaghetti with those cans from Pompeii your version of Russian roulette?!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 30, 2019 15:48:43 GMT
Food poisoning, K2? Did you pull a mystery container from the Fridgidaire and consume it? Everything was "fresh." I only consider food poisoning when I have rapid ejection through the upper exit. This all came out of the lower exit, which implies that the food was already digested (although perhaps less and less as the night went on). But I will readily admit that I don't know the medical specifics of such conditions. I'm sure that Mr. Kimby knows 50 times than I do.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2019 6:54:09 GMT
Hmmm... after two days of being 100% fine, something is wrong again. While not serious, there definitely seems to be some sort of virus lurking in me.
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Post by bjd on Feb 1, 2019 7:48:34 GMT
I think the viruses this year seem to be hardier than usual. I went to the doctor for my bronchitis last Friday. He gave me a bunch of medicine, including antibiotics, and said it should all be over by Monday. That was last Monday and I am still coughing, although less at night.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 13, 2019 15:21:16 GMT
I have an upset stomach which is very unusual for me. Feeling a bit sorry for myself.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 13, 2019 16:45:55 GMT
Oh, I know how that goes. But since it all just grazed me so far this year, I think I was lucky. In any case I didn't get this year's version of winter flu, because I have heard enough bronchial coughs on the street and in the metro to know exactly what it sounds like.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 14, 2019 21:05:24 GMT
Rather like K2 I thought it had gone but it's back this evening. Already fed up with it. I hate illness.
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Post by questa on Feb 15, 2019 2:02:37 GMT
Nine people reported with salmonella yesterday. Seven hospitalised. Cause was a bahn-mi restaurant/take-away in northern suburbs. The pork rolls were infected. This place was the source of a similar outbreak 4 years ago. It has been closed down now.
If your symptoms hit like a bomb, big rush to the toilet and cramps, it is more likely to be food poisoning and usually the bug is a gastro-enteritis germ that the body can deal with using fluids and rest.
The viral symptoms start like a 'flu...slight fever, headache, aching joints, tiredness then comes the gastro attack. This may come and go for several days and often is treated with antibiotics to prevent other bugs taking over. This virus is VERY infectious. Coughing, sneezing. touching anything that has come in contact with the virus, not washing hands properly.
I was in a tour group in Nepal. We were joined by a late arrival on Day 3 who sat in the front seat. By evening the couple sitting behind him were feeling ill. Next day the three people behind the couple showed symptoms and by evening the tour leader and another person were sick. Watching the virus spreading I tried to avoid it but had a dose of it on the day we were supposed to do a short trek in the Annapurna region. I spent the day in the sunny garden of a Tibetan hotel near Lake Pokhara. Fortunately, none of us was very sick, mainly inconvenienced. Why was the late passenger 2 days late? He had to mind his school aged nephew who was home from school with gastro!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 15, 2019 4:39:56 GMT
I'm sure it's good advice but people can't help but laugh at the modified government message on television this year when they suddenly say "if you sneeze, use a tissue or the inside of your elbow."
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Post by questa on Feb 15, 2019 7:18:07 GMT
Remember when grandparents used to say, "the only thing you should rub your eye with is your elbow", then watch the kids making contortions trying to do so.?
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2019 7:32:57 GMT
Fortunately I have no flu symptoms. Going to the doctor this morning for something Unconnected so I'll check with him.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 15, 2019 8:29:00 GMT
Hope that your illness clears up quickly Mick, upset tummies are horrid.
Aside from a resurgence of asthma (brought on by allergies and now medicated and under control) months ago I've not had the usual bouts of colds and other viruses since I retired. I suppose that the obvious causes are a much more relaxed lifestyle and lack of exposure to other folks' coughs and sneezes. Looking back at my working life I must have been very susceptible to my colleagues' germs...
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2019 9:00:47 GMT
Yes, same for me since I retired. Not being in a busy office now must mean less germs.
Anyway starve today, basic food tomorrow, plenty of liquid and no dairy. I guess the dairy I had yesterday set it off again.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 15, 2019 11:08:58 GMT
I'm not catching much either, which is surprising since I still take crowded metros and buses every day. Perhaps it is like the 5-second rule for dropping food on the floor (Yes, I know it is fake news but it reduces wastage, something which also makes me sick). The brief contact with those people doesn't make me sick, but being in the same office all day with my sick colleagues did because I was exposed for much longer periods.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 10, 2019 19:15:40 GMT
Haven’t actually got this but I have picked up some stomach virus which has been with me since Saturday. I really thought it had gone yesterday but at 4am this morning I was proved wrong... So I starved today and ate nothing until this evening. But how good did that food taste!!
Unfortunately it looks as if Mrs Cactus has now gone down with it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 10, 2019 19:28:31 GMT
As long as it is not serious, I often find that a bit of a purge is not a bad event from time to time. Naturally, it is annoying when you have to get up in the middle of the night. Or change your underwear (I used to laugh about that when my parents would tell their tales but no more.).
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Post by whatagain on Apr 10, 2019 19:33:22 GMT
Well I have been told that during my gastro enteritis I didn't reach the loo in the latest stages...
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 10, 2019 19:34:00 GMT
No, not serious at all but typical virus where you feel fine for a while and then feel like S**t for a while.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 10, 2019 19:34:33 GMT
Well I have been told that during my gastro enteritis I didn't reach the loo in the latest stages... You poor thing.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 1, 2020 16:51:43 GMT
A gastro epidemic is starting to spread across France at the moment. So far Paris has been spared, but it is creeping up from the Toulouse-Bordeaux region and also the Belgian and Italian borders (damned foreigners!). I have been spared for quite a few years, but I know that my number is coming up sooner or later.
It is interesting to note that just like in North America, people are quick to think "food poisoning" for a start, but it quickly becomes apparent that people have been eating different things, and that clinches it.
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Post by mich64 on Jan 1, 2020 18:34:10 GMT
Hoping you continue to be spared but realistically it will arrive.
I had a 3 week bout of a cold/gastro flu and am finally feeling better. It really took away my energy level. It enforced my idea of getting the majority of my holiday shopping and chores done before December 1st as there was a few days I had to stay in bed until late afternoon!
I am hoping for a healthy 2020. Back to a balanced diet and my walking regiment.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 15, 2022 10:27:01 GMT
I don’t have gastro flu but I do have something very unusual for me, an upset stomach.
I have been great friends with my toilet since 5 this morning.
Feeling rather sorry for myself.
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