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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: K Frame on June 03, 2021, 08:34:03 AM
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Only to catch the hacky chest cold of 2021.
Screw this *expletive deleted*it...
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There, there. May I offer you a hot beverage?
Yang happens.
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That sucks. I have been trying to make sure I eat a little better and take my vitamin supplement stuff. I don't wan to come down with something.
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I'm just over two weeks since I got a chest cold. Finally starting to feel a little better.
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The south winds of March and early April kicked my allergy season off a lot earlier. The first couple weeks felt like a nasty head and chest cold.
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Everyone at the office is looking at me as if I'm the horseman of death...
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Uh... The great plague was basically nothing but a chest cold... You don't have a lot to worry about if you aren't a nursing home resident...
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Soounds worse than my flip remark a la Sheldon Cooper above would imply.
Get better.
Don't you have a dog? What about the puppy if you are incapacitated?
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You wouldn't have caught that if people had just been considerate and worn masks. :rofl:
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Yeah - my hipster neighbors say that nobody will ever get sick again if you just keep wearing your masks.
They are. They are doing it for you, and you are going to appreciate it. Even if they are wearing vented masks which, if the wearer has a bug, more efficiently broadcasts it... And those things appear to be popular.
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You wouldn't have caught that if people had just been considerate and worn masks. :rofl:
Or at least Patient Zero. :rofl:
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Everyone at the office is looking at me as if I'm the horseman of death...
Yes, enjoy it. Cough loudly and often.
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I don't feel bad... just bleh.
The hacking cough is gunk at the top of my chest. Takes awhile to clear it. When I do clear it it feels wonderful and I feel pretty good for 5 minutes until the cycle starts again.
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Everyone at the office is looking at me as if I'm the horseman of death...
Isn't that your normal state? Why should they treat you any differently now? =)
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Isn't that your normal state? Why should they treat you any differently now? =)
Yeah, but usually I'm a little more circumspect about it.
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This is your chance to go cough on your HOA friend... >:D
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Laugh if you will.
I have found that evaporated milk (not "condensed") is a good expectorant / lung clearer.
Go ahead, yock it up.
Like the time I mentioned that carrots gave me the hiccups and someone else chimed in that his wife had the same problem and he thought she was nuts.
I'm not signing this one so nobody will know who posted it.
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Uh... The great plague was basically nothing but a chest cold... You don't have a lot to worry about if you aren't a nursing home resident...
I know of some people who got hit pretty hard by it, but most recovered. One person I know of spent 3 weeks or so in ICU on a ventilator in an induced coma. He was moved to a long term care place where he is still getting breathing help. He isn't young but hasn't retired yet. He caught while helping at a new site near Las Vegas.
That is still a small percentage of people I would hear about. I doubt even half the people I know even came down with it and only a few got hit hard.
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I have found that evaporated milk (not "condensed") is a good expectorant / lung clearer.
That's interesting. My doctor warned me many years ago to AVOID dairy products, esp. "fresh" stuff as dairy tends to increase mucus production.
While it has been several years since I have had a "cold", I used a hot salt water gargle to clear the phlegm out of my throat and dry the swollen tissues up and shrink them.
Hope you feel better soon.
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Yes, that's the effect with me. More mucus, more coughing of the crap out. Expectorant. In the meantime, you can buy "expectorants" at the drug store.
No disrespect to any medicos here, but they are as subject to fad and fashion as any of us. As Mrs. Cooper, Sheldon Cooper's Mom says, "Oh, those doctors. One week bacon grease is bad for you, the next week, you can't get enough of it." (A paraquote, not guaranteed to be word-for-word accurate.)
One wonders, too, how much of the science is bought and paid for.
It's been a while, but they used to prescribe mercury* and bloodletting, too. And, more lately, electroshock therapy.
And here's one to trigger some reactions: homosexuality seems to keep going on and off the diagnostic manuals as an illness.
There seem to be some theopolitical variables involved in that science.
Go figure.
Terry, 230RN
* It's still under debate whether Beethoven died because of mercury poisoning. I don't remember what the last authoritative pontification on that was. Oh,wait.... no, it was lead poisoning that caused his deafness, right?