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Postby dodint » Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:58 am

Worst part of air travel is being squeezed into that narrow **** sky tube with all of humanity and their germs. Flew on Sunday, Wednesday morning I wake up with a sore throat, lost my voice, a mild headache, and a general floaty/buzzy feeling in the head. It's bullshit.

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Postby Morkle » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:02 am

Someone in Philly is being tested for Ebola.

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Postby dodint » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:02 am

St. Paul doesn't seem so bad now.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:03 am

There's been a stomach bug going around our company (maybe our area?) for like a month now. My wife got it over the weekend, and the symptoms from everyone sound pretty much the same:
-Wake up in the middle of the night and puke your guts out
-Any time you eat something over the next 20-36 hours you puke
-Headache and fever

And then, poof. It's gone. I'm crossing my fingers hoping that I've escaped it.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:19 pm

Son is coming home from school with a fever, joint pain, and chills. Urgent care says negative on the flu, but treating him for such just in case. A lot of the recent cases test negative early on, and then positive the next day.

He and my wife shared queso last night. He and is brother share a toothpaste tube. We should all have it by the end of the weekend.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:54 pm

We got our daughter a flu shot for the first time this year. Pretty uneventful....

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Postby Viva la Ben » Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:36 pm

**** Ebola?

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:21 pm

Son is coming home from school with a fever, joint pain, and chills. Urgent care says negative on the flu, but treating him for such just in case. A lot of the recent cases test negative early on, and then positive the next day.

He and my wife shared queso last night. He and is brother share a toothpaste tube. We should all have it by the end of the weekend.
Lupus.

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Postby Morkle » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:44 pm

My son started daycare this week, so I'm waiting the doom of him getting sick.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:51 pm

My son started daycare this week, so I'm waiting the doom of him getting sick.
It'll happen early, and often. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

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Postby Morkle » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:53 pm

Nope, just waiting to manage the damage.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:58 pm

Doc told us that the average infant gets 6-10 colds their first two winters/cold seasons... the average infant that goes to daycare is double that. It's alright though. Just money in the bank for their immune system later.

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:22 pm

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:32 pm

They also prescribed Xofluza instead of tamiflu. Tamiflu gives teenagers hallucinations evidently. :shock:

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Postby Willie Kool » Fri Feb 08, 2019 9:08 am

I bought an aunt jemima frozen breakfast today and now see that it has 1400 Mg of salt. My limit is 300 Mg a day. :(

https://www.auntjemimafrozen.com/
Yep - gotta read those labels.

Since my kidney stone in early October, I've also cut way back on salt - along with oxalates, red meat, refined sugar and flour. 300 mg has to be tough - I'm trying to stay under 1200 mg. I feel a lot better and I've lost my 'love handles' and almost 10 pounds. Probably in the best shape of my life...

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 1:38 pm

My wife broke her toe, and of the 2 hours we just spent at the ER, only about 15 of them was spent with a doctor or nurse. This is why everyone hates healthcare in the US.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:07 pm

Our local hospital system has an urgent care facility open seven days a week, and has access to a radiologist at the main hospital. When my son broke his foot a few years ago at a Saturday baseball tournament (rolled it on the artificial pitching mound), they were able to x-ray it and send it to the main hospital. We had the diagnosis in under an hour with a aircast. No ER involved. Had we gone to the ER, we would’ve had to wait over an hour just to see a doctor and then get x-rays, only to have the same radiologist diagnose it probably three hours later.

Healthcare drives me nuts.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:14 pm

Honestly, it didn’t even cross my mind to go to urgent care at the time. They have an x-ray machine, too, so I’d probably have saved time and money. Oh well. They set the toe and buddy taped it, but she still has to see an ortho doc tomorrow.

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Postby Rylan » Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:51 pm

When I sprained my ankle late last year, I went to urgent care to get xrays and it cost me all of like $25 and took like an hour.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:52 pm

The irony about today was that the ER was completely empty, and she was taken straight back. I knew then that something was amiss.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:53 pm

My daughter now wants to break her toe so she can get crutches, too. :lol: Kids, man.

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Postby meow » Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:53 pm

Urgent care was your best option - assuming they have an x ray machine. The ER is really reserved now for “help me now or I’ll die” scenarios.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:57 pm

You live and you learn.

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Postby willeyeam » Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:57 pm

Well that's the plan

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:03 pm

It’s just a mindset thing. For broken bones, I’m just accustomed to going to the ER. Didn’t even dawn on me to go to urgent care for it until we were already being seen.

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