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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 16, 2016 19:59:30 GMT
Got a cold atm...snotzilla. Feel very unwell but the upside is that now I'm retired I don't need to struggle into work
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 22:04:50 GMT
That is almost -- but not quite -- as good as feeling cured.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 16, 2016 22:51:25 GMT
I got a flu jab today. "They" are predicting a cold weather. I'm glad it is over and done with, though flu jabs are a bit of a crapshoot.
Cheery, in not too long a time that will sort of be my case as well. Sort of, because my OAP is pitiful, and I certainly intend to keep on working freelance as long as I can, but it will provide me less terror and more leeway to travel (as a volunteer worker, allowing sidetrips). But obviously that will mean I'm closer to death, though who knows how many worthwhile years or decades lie ahead. I'll have to give clear directives that I don't want to be kept "alive" as someone comatose or braindead.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 23:44:09 GMT
The 'flu jab' is free starting at age 65 here. I have not yet reached the time when I will receive the free coupon. Of course, my health coverage would reimburse the cost of it anyway, but I prefer to believe that if the time is set for age 65, I don't need it yet anyway.
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Post by questa on Nov 16, 2016 23:52:01 GMT
Oh, Lagatta, Don't think of retirement as a step closer to death. OK, I suppose every day is, retired or not, but I have been busier in a positive way since I retired from paid work than I ever thought I would. The beauty is my busy-ness has been of my own choosing and projects kept popping up which kept me entertained. I really surprised myself when I found a creative streak with my knitting that was rewarded with blue ribbons and membership of the Guild. I have continued travelling off the beaten tracks, but both these activities have been curtailed now by infirmity.
As more of my former work friends retired we have kept in touch and have a walk, coffee and talk session every 2 months. Yesterday 18 of us gathered for a beach walk (with dogs!) and celebrated an 80th birthday.
I have long planned to 'write the book' about the adventures of the cafe I had in Bali but that (and scanning countless photos of kids growing up) will have to wait until I have time. I kept journals so it is not all memories.
You are wise to continue a free-lance contact, makes the break less of a jolt, but don't worry about winding up brain dead for a few years yet.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 17, 2016 13:33:56 GMT
Here the standard age for it to be free is 65 as well, but people with several different medical conditions are also entitled to it. Even for those who have to pay, it doesn't cost us much.
I tend to get bronchitis, probably because my dad was such a heavy smoker; there is no other reason I can see. Much less in recent years, perhaps because legislation has significantly curtailed public smoking.
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Post by rikita on Dec 4, 2016 9:02:43 GMT
got a throat ache (along with a cough and a stuffed nose at times) for three weeks now ... this morning it's a bit better, then again, it is often a bit better in the morning.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 18:03:04 GMT
Well, it seemed I picked up the pneumonia bug that eventually did my father in, probably from kissing and embracing him when I first arrived at the hospital, before they put him in isolation in ICU. There, I had to fully gown, mask and glove before I could enter the room. I can't tell you you how strange it is to know that, along with his DNA in my blood and my big brown eyes, I'm also carrying the disease that finally killed him just 2 weeks ago. Of course, a run of antibiotics is going to fix me up good, but man, what a parting gift.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2016 15:50:32 GMT
Oh, do feel better Lizzy. Get as much rest as you can.
The stress, and emotional strain likely didn't help matters.
On another note, a doctor friend of ours recently told us that he encountered a patient who contracted Guillian- Barre Syndrome from getting a flu shot.
No thank you.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 30, 2016 3:10:37 GMT
got a throat ache (along with a cough and a stuffed nose at times) for three weeks now ... this morning it's a bit better, then again, it is often a bit better in the morning. Rikita, do you have a humidifier? Failing that, try keeping a pan of water simmering on the stove or radiator. If that is too dangerous to have going at night while you all sleep, maybe at least do it in the evenings when you are sitting around the house.
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Post by rikita on Dec 31, 2016 0:13:01 GMT
fortunately my throat ache is finally gone ... the stove is in the kitchen though, so anything simmering there probably won't help much in the living room or bed room. we have a thing to keep water in and then put on the heater, but when we used it last year i did not notice much difference (and in the bed room it does not help much as the heating there is turned off) ...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 6:57:31 GMT
I try to keep water on the bedroom radiator, too, but I am not convinced of its utility.
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Post by chexbres on Dec 31, 2016 7:15:36 GMT
It only works if you have a big pan of water and the radiator is right next to your bed
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Post by rikita on Dec 31, 2016 12:07:21 GMT
and i suppose only if you don't have anyone near the bed who thinks that is a really fun idea because she loves playing with water.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 1:51:25 GMT
I've come down with the flu. 38.8 fever, cough, snot, lungs filling up. Unfortunately, I'm in Seattle, so if I'm not any better tomorrow, I will have my husband put me on the train and send me home. He's just fine.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 1, 2017 2:24:01 GMT
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm utterly freezing, though the heat is on particularly in my home office (though I don't keep it high anywhere). My "bedroom" is the other half of what we call a "double room" in Montréal: a room divided into two parts by a partial wall or portico. This is common here as many flats only have windows at each end of our long, narrow flats. So I can't turn the heat off in the bedroom, though I turn everything low before turning in. I like a cool room and lots of warm covers (and a cat) but here we can't really follow the German custom of no heat in the bedroom, but a warm duvet and the window open a crack, as it is simply too cold. Very tired and cold, but no symptoms of any serious disease. Bed beckons.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 4:59:13 GMT
Take care, lagatta.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 12:03:43 GMT
Computers should have a 3D printer medical attachment so that people could send each other the appropriate medicine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 16:16:33 GMT
No medecine needed for this girl. I woke up this morning and, after three days, the fever had broken. Other than some pain killers for the throbbing headache I took nothing. Well, I have no voice left. I'll just have to keep an eye on it and make sure it still doesn't drop into my lungs.
I was reminded yesterday of a great play by a friend of mine called Unity (1918). It was about how the Spanish Flu was brought home after WWI ended. One anecdote was about a soldier on the way home to Alberta; when he died en route his body made the trip across the entire country because nobody wanted to touch him, so they just left him where he fell.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 16, 2017 19:15:14 GMT
Recently had a health scare. It was largely down to my beloved watching too many public information films about coughs. So I had a battery of blood tests and a chest x-ray. It all got very heavy and altho I was fairly blasé to start with Im afraid that my husband's concern together with some other factors got to me. I had a rather horrid week waiting for the test results and I'm pleased to say that they all came back clear. I still have a horrid summer cold on top of hay fever and a pet allergy. But I'm relieved all the same
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Post by mich64 on Aug 16, 2017 20:30:17 GMT
Sorry to read about the scare Cheery but happy to hear you went to get checked/tested and that all is clear! Happy you are relieved!
My dad suffered through a long horrible cold a few months ago and he had to get a scan done on his lungs.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2017 6:12:16 GMT
It's never a bad idea to get tests when in doubt. At least some of us live in countries where the expense of such things is not an issue.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 18, 2017 19:05:59 GMT
Very true Kerouac. Unfortunately I'm still feeling grotty I'll be glad when I'm over this bug. I seem to be susceptible to this sort of thing.. need more vitamins!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2019 6:43:38 GMT
No one has been poorly since August of 2017?!
Let me break that run of rude good health. I feel like doo-doo. Woke up in the night because of a headache and could feel and even hear the pressure in my sinus cavities. Got up, drank coffee, broke down & took an allergy pill, but my whole body hurts, especially in the joints. Went to bed at 9:30 & watched a movie, but here it is almost quarter of one in the morning & I'm still awake. Poor me!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2019 6:51:58 GMT
I haven't had a "real" cold for at least 2 years, maybe 3.
That sounds like this year's official winter flu, Bixa. I know people who took more than 2 weeks to shake it off and they said it was horrible with the aches. I hope you can snap out of it!
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Post by bjd on Feb 16, 2019 7:03:57 GMT
Yes, it sounds like flu. Still lots of it around allegedly.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2019 8:23:20 GMT
Doesn’t sound good. Get well soon. X
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Post by breeze on Feb 16, 2019 12:51:24 GMT
Oof. Since you're usually in good health, the worst of it should get over with fairly quickly, leaving you energetic enough to read, talk on the phone, or watch movies on the couch, but not peppy enough to make any major effort. That's the target zone for me when I'm sick.
Maybe Questa will make a house call. I always value her medical advice.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2019 20:08:16 GMT
Thanks, all! Yes, I feared it was a flu coming on & a couple of days earlier had been hit with that scratchy throat thing that often heralds a cold. When I woke up very late this morning I felt much better, in fact right up to what Breeze describes (which sounds tragically like too many of my days anyway). I've even watered plants, visited the market, and attended a yard sale where I had an illuminating conversation about the pottery from San Marcos, a place I visited this past Sunday.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2019 20:17:01 GMT
Maybe it just grazed you. Quite a few of us luck out on that while others plunge into misery.
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