Again.
I had some kind of sinus/head cold about 3 weeks ago and wound up missing a day of work. When I did go back, whatever it was I had was already tearing through the entire population at work and at least half of them wound up with it, some missing an entire week of work.
Eventually the symptoms slacked off but the damn thing seemed to linger for a long time.
At least two weeks.
Friday I had to climb all over a big piece of equipment like a kid on a jungle gym for half the day. By the end of the day I was feeling beat.
I have to keep reminding myself that I’m almost 63 years old and probably shouldn’t be doing that kind of shit in the first place anyway.
Saturday I didn’t have enough energy to pour piss out of a boot.
I laid around almost all day and even took 2 naps in the afternoon.
Yesterday I didn’t really feel bad but again, zero energy and I just laid around.
When I got up this morning, it started in.
As I was drinking a cup of coffee, I could feel it kind of burning way down in one side of my throat.
I had to do some wrenching right away and didn’t get done until 3 hours later. At break I could feel my throat starting to get sore, by 11 I felt like I had been riding around town in the back of a cement truck. At Noon even my supervisor told me I looked like shit and I should probably go home. By then it had gone straight to my chest.
But no, I don’t have a bunch of sick time built up so I stuck it out. I did tell him that he could count on me not showing up tomorrow.
While I was killing time waiting to leave, I saw a news article saying that The Flu is just tearing through the entire country and Washington State is one of them getting blasted hard. Hospitals are filling up and the works.
Funny that, two years ago it was like The Flu had been completely eradicated, they reported zero cases of it. Covid on the other hand….
Now this year, Covid seems to only be a going concern in certain areas but The Flu has come tearing back with a vengeance.
If my sniffer was working right I would say that there was an over abundance of bullshit in the vicinity.
Anyway,
On the way home I swung into a Walgreens and loaded up on the original Lysterine, some Zinc lozenges and some Alka Seltzer Plus.
There is already a bottle of my old friend Nyquil up in the cabinet.
I cracked open the Lysterine right in the drug store parking lot and gargled a huge dose of it before even leaving.
I had plans to come home, get dosed up real good and zonk the hellout.
But No.
I see The Kid’s rig as I pull up and the instant I walked in the door he tells me that it’s on me to take care of everything because…
The Wifely Unit has got it too.
I could hear her hacking and coughing before I got all the way in the door.
She’s in bed, cranky as a motherfucker and pissed off because she thought she was going to able to lay in bed and I was going to get to wait on her hand and foot for once.
I has some bad news for you chick…
So now we both have this crap, some kind of chest cold/flu, we both feel like dog shit and someone is going to have to step up to the plate and take care of our Autistic son.
It ain’t gonna be her and it ain’t gonna be The Kid either, he has to go back to work.
As they say, ain’t no rest for the wicked.
Looks like I am going to have to step into the breach here and tough it out.
Yippee Ki Yay, Motherfucker.
One cup of soup for her coming up and Thank God for frozen TV dinners.
That will take care of them, I have no idea what I’m going to do for eats but whatever it is will not involve actual cooking.
I’m sure there are either more frozen TV dinners in the freezer or I may just open up a can of Spam and grab a fork.
I don’t even feel like messing with paper plates at this point.
I’ve had the same thing since the Friday before Thanksgiving.
Today is the first day I’ve felt OK.
Get better.
I got it too and I’m in central Pa. I’ve been dosing myself with horse paste, chicken soup, vitamin d and e. I really think it’s helping.
Yep. I am 10 days into the same, finally the dry cough that remained is leaving slowly but not without spikes and fits.
Drinking a lot of fluids and take a tablespoon of honey ever few hours when the throat bit was getting serious. Or some Skyr with honey (a thick Icelandic type of yogurt). Seems to do a good job of soothing the pain. Stay away from ANYTHING that crumbles like oatmeal cookies or nuts, those cause real bad coughing fits (ask me how I know).
Get as much rest as you can, and sleep away, it helps.
Call in the cavalry. LEAN on friends for even petty help (picking up meds/groceries/what ever).
Shut everything down. Turn off the phone.
Fluids (important), rest if able.
Sore throat? Gargling with mouthwash, followed by Cepacol lozenges worked for me (do they even still make them?).
You’ll beat this sh*t. Yes you will.
Vitamin D3 5000 IU/day
Vitamin C 1000mg/day
Quercetin 500mg/day
Zinc 25-50mg/day
not really working for me, but it could be worse. Kinda stuffy and some congestion. Doing all that but I can’t find the C bottle. ?
Getting old’s a bitch. Or like the old T shirt on my Helo pilot said, which would be called a “Meme”
now, “Life’s a Bitch, and then you die”.
Picking up the 1911 is easy. Ring the doorbell and back up, or call first, before you come by to visit.
Dialing 911 just takes too much time.
Looking at a place in N. ID.
I don’t think I would be found there very easily. 40 miles from the Canada border.
Off the grid, so if you don’t hear from me again, that’s probably why.
Merry Christmas. Keep yer powder dry.
Up by Sandpoint, eh? VERY nice area. Heavy winter snows, be prepared.
Sandpoint- aka: Little Grass Valley, CA, because of all the CA refugees there. Some of whom left after the first heavy Idaho winter.
Get well soon, Phil.
What really helped me was a spoonful of raw honey and a cup of hot Celestial Seasonings Lemon Ginger tea, repeat as needed.
Phil, the latest virus, RVS, is burning through the population like a wildfire. Most of those people that have received The Death Jab have lowered immune systems and are now a hothouse of viruses, cancers, you name it. And, unfortunately, they are spreading it – even to us Purebloods. We are NOT immune!
Do everything you need to to knock it down, Ivermectin and/or HCQ should really help.
All of the masking up, sanitizing, isolation, living in a bubble has caused our collective immune systems to get weak and flaccid.
The immune system needs a constant challenge so it can be “educated” as to what is going around. If it does not get it, we will be knocked flat by something that would otherwise have given us an off day and maybe a case of the sniffles.
Chickens coming home to roost – Fauci et. al. need to be held accountable for this… Big time…
Yep, sounds like RSV. My son drug it home from school a month ago and it knocked him out for about four days. I was the lucky guy he shared it with and it put me down for almost two weeks and now my wife has it. Also the cough seems to hang on and not get much better, at the four week mark for the kid and he is a very healthy and active 16 year old 6’2″ 200lbs. Neither he nor I have had that fucking clot shot either. Take care and get as much rest as possible Phil.
Eric.
warm water+salt gargle 2-3x/day. works wonders.
and lots sleep.
Spam, Phil? Man, there are worse things than dying, eating Spam ranks with it.
rest up as much as you can. and you need to eat too. otherwise you end up too weak to fight it off. honey works wonders in hot tea. also a big fan of Vicks vapor rub. I slap some it on at the first sign of anything like that. we have not gotten sick that often here, but then again I filter all the water we drink and cook with.
I bought a big Berkey water filter back in the 1990’s and keep a stock of new filter on hand at all times. it makes a difference in the water. and I think the reason why I don’t get sick as often as others I know do.
My Grandmas recipe:
Cup of tea. Lemon. Honey. Shot of whiskey.
Works every time.
I started feeling puny about 3 hours ago and made that concoction with extra whisky plus some homemade chicken soup. Right now I feel some better. Old remedies are better than anything.
Hang in there and heal up! If you got to stay home and sleep it off; do it. Ain’t no sense in winding up in the hospital with pneumonia.
Good thoughts to you, and what everyone else said.
Damn, I’ve had that a couple times. Regular Campbells chicken noodle did help me and it’s about the easiest thing to cook too. It works/helps.
Best to you and your wife.
Join the club! One of the joys of family and/or working fore a living is that someone gets a bug, passes it to A who passes it to B for about two weeks. Then, when the originator is feeling better, they get a mutated version from Z and the whole pantomime starts again.
Not difficult to figure out why the flu wasn’t around last winter. Duh , everyone (most forcibly ) were required to use masks.
Though masks aren’t very efficient in keeping the user from catching stuff. They very much help to prevent the spread of viruses. By containing boogers to yourself. Simple science Bubba.
Today everyone , pretty much has went right back to old habits and think it their duty to get up and close without any the booger catchers.
Of course the flu rate was lower then.
Hope you both feel better quickly! Chicken soup and vitamins and rest are the only way I get past some of this crap.
Emergen-C work like gold for me. It’s a blast of vitamin c w/ a bunch of vitamins if you’ve never tried 1 before.
“I have to keep reminding myself that I’m almost 63 years old and probably shouldn’t be doing that kind of shit in the first place anyway”.
Got the same problem, my mind still acts like I’m 30.
Listen people find you some ivermectin and keep it handy in large quantities, I have heard about the shit going around here as well but I am insulated mostly. Told my friend just the other day I was thinking about dosing weekly again and he said the same thing and couldn’t believe I said it. Both of us think like our community here.
After my stay in the clown world hospital last July, false alarm, I ain’t never going back. Get on it people, shooting and murder reports almost daily in the big city here. My gut says it’s gonna get worse.
Vitamin I is your friend. hit it hard and heavy. https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/
Hubby and I have been passing a similar bug back and forth for several weeks, after ALMOST recovering from the last one. We’re on the mend, but the cough hangs on for a long time. Probably long enough for the next bug to hit us. . .
Seems like a never-ending, exhausting cycle. Our “golden years” are rusting out fast. My whine for the day.
You and your wife get better soon. Chicken soup and lots of sleep.