Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments
Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments
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.
Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments
Someone in Philly is being tested for Ebola.
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St. Paul doesn't seem so bad now.
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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.
-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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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.
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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We got our daughter a flu shot for the first time this year. Pretty uneventful....
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**** Ebola?
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Lupus.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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My son started daycare this week, so I'm waiting the doom of him getting sick.
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It'll happen early, and often. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.My son started daycare this week, so I'm waiting the doom of him getting sick.
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Nope, just waiting to manage the damage.
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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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They also prescribed Xofluza instead of tamiflu. Tamiflu gives teenagers hallucinations evidently.
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Yep - gotta read those labels.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/
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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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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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.
Healthcare drives me nuts.
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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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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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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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My daughter now wants to break her toe so she can get crutches, too. Kids, man.
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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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You live and you learn.
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Well that's the plan
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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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