Personal impact of the Wuhan Virus

[Lennyjoe]

Our 23 year old daughter tested positive today.  Last time any of us immediate family were around her was last Friday.  She started showing symptoms Saturday, tested Monday and got results today.  

[MillCreek]

Our niece, who as a new RN, starting working at the hospital in August, tested positive on Sunday.

[RoadKingLarry]

I guess I'm up to two.

A high school friend of my son, he's in his mid 30s. Minor symptoms, no apparent lingering effects.

My daughter-in-law's 92 year old grandfather. Sick with flu-ish symptoms for about week, never hospitalized. Today was day 14 of his after sick quarantine. He demanded his keys from his daughter and drove himself to the library. 

[charby]

Just got a text from the husband of a couple I've been friends with for the last 15 years or so, his wife tested positive for Covid 4 weeks ago and in the hospital with spreading pneumonia, on a CPAP with oxygen. Can't seem to keep the pneumonia from spreading with antibiotics and other drugs. We're the same age, lives in Iowa, 3 hours from me. This sucks, she is his world.

[lee n. field]

Well, I've (get the tenses right) come down with something.  It feels like just a bad cold, at the "chills & hacking up pflegm*" stage.  I suspect it is a cold, but I'm sure I'll end up getting the China Flu test.  My experience of taste and smell is unaffected.

(*"pflegm", looks like a Lovecraftian word, something out of an eldritch creepy-crawly summoning ritual.)

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test tomorrow, "2-4 days" for results.

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Simple nasal swab, however accurate that may be.  Day 4 of chills, cough, random aches, intermittently loose bowels and other fun stuff.

results back today.  If accurate, I have the China Bat Eater's flu.  Sounds like I need to hole up in the house for another week or so, and watch for shortness of breath.

[Ben]

results back today.  If accurate, I have the China Bat Eater's flu. 

You mean the CCP bioweapon beta version. :)

I'm pretty much over mine, except that I still have a cough and some phlegm, and am still getting extraordinarily tired after any activity. Usually after a cold or something, to get over that run down feeling, I'll force myself back into cardio, like punching the heavy bag, but it ain't happening yet with this. I just got done with 1.5 hours on the tractor and I'm ready to hit the rack.

Hope you end up with just a mild case.

[Ron]

Close friend of the family, fathers business partner 30+ years, late 70's maybe early 80's in the hospital with pneumonia and the China virus.

On a ventilator but is said to be doing well and getting better.

He did some traveling from Illinois down to Texas then back up with a stop in Arkansas along the way.

Came down with it right after he got back.

Multiple risk factors so there is much concern. His age, lifelong smoker (quit 3 years ago) and only one kidney.

 

[TechMan]

Receptionist at work has it.  She got it from her daughter, who got it from a friend that came back from FL.  The ironic thing is that the receptionist was the official temperature checker, for the few of us that were coming into work.  The CEO was going in for surgery today, when he got there they sent him home because he had an elevated temperature, but before giving him a Covid test, so we will see.

Another co-worker that was WFH got it from his daughter and wife going to the mall where they both got it.

ETA:  The CEO tested positive for Covid.  Also, I forgot a third co-worker announced on the Book of Faces that he has Covid.

[brimic]

I’d say about 1/2 of my coworkers have had it already. I’m trying to avoid it since I am out of vacation for the year:/

There’s only been one case where someone was out for more than 2 weeks- an early 20s woman was out for 2.5 months, and came back completely worthless... though she was worthless before covid, and now has a ‘medical excuse’ to be a slug.

[Doggy Daddy]

with the added benefit of diarrhea.

A running joke is always fun.

It's just been like a medium grade cold for both of us so far,

I also award you a medium grade for the joke.  "Here's your C."   

[RocketMan]

Stepson is getting better, actually went for a drive with his wife yesterday as they were going stir crazy cooped up in the house.
Wife and I still have mid-grade cold symptoms with the wife also suffering occasional bouts of nausea and vomiting.  We've both had diarrhea, as well.

[Andiron]

Stepson is getting better, actually went for a drive with his wife yesterday as they were going stir crazy cooped up in the house.
Wife and I still have mid-grade cold symptoms with the wife also suffering occasional bouts of nausea and vomiting.  We've both had diarrhea, as well.

Turns out all the crazy hoarders were right all along.

[HeroHog]

I posted this on Facebook the other day: "I'm about ready to start licking doorknobs and just get it over with, one way or another."

[Andiron]

I posted this on Facebook the other day: "I'm about ready to start licking doorknobs and just get it over with, one way or another."

Same here.  I don't believe most of what they're telling us.  For my age and physical fitness,  I'll take my chances on a disease that's 99.6 % survivable (when last I checked)

[lee n. field]

results back today.  If accurate, I have the China Bat Eater's flu.  Sounds like I need to hole up in the house for another week or so, and watch for shortness of breath.

Nurse called later with some supplement recommendations.  The only ones I wasn't already taking are zinc and lycine.  He also prescribed a short course of an asthma drug.

In theory, I'm close to the end of when they want me to hole up.  In fact, I still feel like crap.  Food started tasting odd, then I lost almost all appetite.  I have enough extra flesh to buffer me for quite a while.   Nausea, diarrhea, intermittently, and a cough.  Joy.   Nurse wonders if the intestinal upset might be from some of the supplements.  I'll hold off on what I didn't already take.

And when I get done, Dearest Wifey gets to hole up for a couple weeks.  Right through Christmas, which is kind of a bust this year anyway.

[Ron]

I've taken zinc over the years starting way back in the day when ZMA was a popular supplement for those of us who lifted weights.

My system never has had problems with zinc and it is a biggie in the world of fighting off cold/flu bugs.

Magnesium on the other hand ...

Get well soon, thanks for the update.

[Ben]

In theory, I'm close to the end of when they want me to hole up.  In fact, I still feel like crap.  Food started tasting odd, then I lost almost all appetite. 

While I'm over the bioweapon, oddly, I just a couple of days ago discovered I lost my sense of smell. I can't recall if that happened when I had the full-on symptoms, but I don't think so. I was getting some cinnamon for my oatmeal the other days, and realized I couldn't smell it. I usually strongly smell it from feet away. I stuck my nose right in the container, and I could barely smell it. Tested a few other food items with a strong smell, and same deal. I read one "long haul" article that said this can go on for weeks after initial symptoms.

Kind of a bummer that I also can't smell my Christmas tree. 

[RocketMan]

My Folgers 1850 Pioneer Blend coffee tastes absolutely fabulous since the beer virus has had its way with my taste buds. When my taste buds finally get back to normal I have a feeling I may need to find a better coffee as I may be very disappointed in the original flavor that I enjoyed.
The wife brought me a piece of cinnamon toast today. I could barely taste the cinnamon. Normally it's a strong pleasant flavor to me.

[MechAg94]

While I'm over the bioweapon, oddly, I just a couple of days ago discovered I lost my sense of smell. I can't recall if that happened when I had the full-on symptoms, but I don't think so. I was getting some cinnamon for my oatmeal the other days, and realized I couldn't smell it. I usually strongly smell it from feet away. I stuck my nose right in the container, and I could barely smell it. Tested a few other food items with a strong smell, and same deal. I read one "long haul" article that said this can go on for weeks after initial symptoms.

Kind of a bummer that I also can't smell my Christmas tree. 

That is part of the temptation of getting cinnamon sticks or toast.  Hope you get better.

[Ron]

Close friend of the family, fathers business partner 30+ years, late 70's maybe early 80's in the hospital with pneumonia and the China virus.

On a ventilator but is said to be doing well and getting better.

He did some traveling from Illinois down to Texas then back up with a stop in Arkansas along the way.

Came down with it right after he got back.

Multiple risk factors so there is much concern. His age, lifelong smoker (quit 3 years ago) and only one kidney.

Still in the hospital, off the ventilator.

Now they are waiting for his blood 02 levels to rise back to normal.

He is in good spirits and chomping at the bit to go home.

It was categorized as covid-19 related pneumonia. I may have got the technical name wrong, I'm not sure my dad relayed the correct term.

Regardless, his prognosis is good so that is a relief to everyone.

[charby]

Just got a text from the husband of a couple I've been friends with for the last 15 years or so, his wife tested positive for Covid 4 weeks ago and in the hospital with spreading pneumonia, on a CPAP with oxygen. Can't seem to keep the pneumonia from spreading with antibiotics and other drugs. We're the same age, lives in Iowa, 3 hours from me. This sucks, she is his world.

She ended up in ICU on a vent the next day after I posted, today she went off the vent and appears to be on the path to recovery. So 6 days on a vent. Fingers crossed.

[Brad Johnson]

Classmate's mother died the day after Thanksgiving from secondary complications (grossly obese, COPD from being a two pack a day smoker).

We're going to a funeral tomorrow for a family friend who died at 53. Unbelievably quick relapse after being well on the way to full recovery. Four days from feeling fine to dead.

Several family members have had it to varying degrees, ranging from a 102 deg fever for a week to nothing more than a headache and sniffle.

SWMBO and I have dodged it so far.

Brad

[MechAg94]

Found out today the operator that was on shift yesterday came down with a fever last night.  A few of us were there yesterday.  Our COVID procedure means everyone who can stay out of the control room does.  So I am working from home.  Apparently, the operator's wife came up positive today and he was getting tested today.  So I am just trying to make sure my nutrition is good and get plenty of rest.  Just in time for Christmas....   

[Ron]

Still in the hospital, off the ventilator.

Now they are waiting for his blood 02 levels to rise back to normal.

He is in good spirits and chomping at the bit to go home.

It was categorized as covid-19 related pneumonia. I may have got the technical name wrong, I'm not sure my dad relayed the correct term.

Regardless, his prognosis is good so that is a relief to everyone.

Friend of the family was released a couple days ago. His O2 levels still aren't back up to normal but they allowed him to go home. He could have stayed in longer but he did not want to be in the hospital any longer.

In a conversation with a couple of coworkers who were out with the china virus earlier this fall, they both said they are starting to doubt the narrative about it in the media. Obviously they aren't doubting it exists but both said if we weren't in the midst of a pandemic they would have thought they just picked up a nasty flu.  

At work we haven't had anyone have to quarantine since before Thanksgiving so that is a good sign.

[MechAg94]

Found out today the operator that was on shift yesterday came down with a fever last night.  A few of us were there yesterday.  Our COVID procedure means everyone who can stay out of the control room does.  So I am working from home.  Apparently, the operator's wife came up positive today and he was getting tested today.  So I am just trying to make sure my nutrition is good and get plenty of rest.  Just in time for Christmas....   

So I thought this one guy was okay, but apparently he never go over it.  He had fever again last week and his wife was admitted to the hospital.  Apparently he was also as I heard today he was released, but his wife will be in there a few more days. 

Everyone else at work is okay so no one is in a hurry for him to come back.