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Common cold?
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Common cold? Or, Coronavirus..... I've come to discover there is no such thing as being 'regular' sick anymore. Develop the sniffles and you've essentially kissed anything normal in your life, goodbye. The moment you pull that Kleenex out of your pocket every eye within a 20ft radius is laser focused on you. Bring it to your nose? Better start looking around for the guy in the hazmat suit, cause, he's going to be waving that CDC flag and hauling your ass outta there. So, I started feeling a little something in my sinuses at work Friday. Not too terrible, just a little pressure..... Then I got home. The moment I sat down in the warm heat and my comfy pajamas, it was full on sniffles. Runny nose... few sneezes... Dammit if I didn't feel like Typhoid Mary. Do I go to the doctor? Should I sequester myself?? Is my life flashing before my eyes??? I ended up taking some Dayquil, like I used to do before the..... Virus! And I felt fine again within the hour. That, however, led to thoughts like.... Should I be around people? Should I be calling in to work because of a cold?? If the cold medicine is helping, am I really considered "sick"??? I think I kind of long for the days when you could be down and out with the flu and your boss would still be expecting you to come to work. Those days felt normal.... |
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It's definitely flu season. That makes it doubly hard to know exactly what you've got.
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It's definitely flu season. That makes it doubly hard to know exactly what you've got.
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Thank you.... I'm feeling pretty good today. No sniffles.
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...spectacularly written... and so on point.... the continuum between regular normal yuck and oh my god am I gonna die yuck has been sufficiently blurred.... and it's those with low thresholds of fear that will wonder the most.... just like pain thresholds... some muddle through with barely a grimace at big injuries..... while others are howling in pain at a paper cut.... ....just gotta hope that medical science makes a huge breakthrough soon.... or the virus mutates to a less severe form... in either case, we all have to carry on... ...carpe diem....
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New or unusual symptoms.... That's one of the intake questions. If I'd gotten the sniffles while at work Friday I would have been sent home, without pay, for three days minimum. Runny nose and sneezing is a symptom of COViD. So many of my coworkers have had to burn up their PTO time just to keep up a regular paycheck.
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Hopefully Sunday greets you with a clear nose.
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...spectacularly written... and so on point.... the continuum between regular normal yuck and oh my god am I gonna die yuck has been sufficiently blurred.... and it's those with low thresholds of fear that will wonder the most.... just like pain thresholds... some muddle through with barely a grimace at big injuries..... while others are howling in pain at a paper cut.... ....just gotta hope that medical science makes a huge breakthrough soon.... or the virus mutates to a less severe form... in either case, we all have to carry on... ...carpe diem....
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Hopefully Sunday greets you with a clear nose. ... is there another way to look at it Going Too Fucking Far NEW Blog Features RevealeD O O A Foolproof Method Posted Over on that NEW site O O
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it does give us something to ponder what is the new normal are we ready for it it will be here, ready or not be safe 
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I experience sinus issues so, for me, this isn't all that uncommon. Spring time allergies.... Slight fall cold when the weather changes.... There are certain things that just happen every year to me. The normal stuff is still going to happen regardless of whether people freak out about it or not.
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As a health professional who deals with virology I have seen a lot of people who for a variety of reasons are rightfully concerned they might have covid if they are under the weather. If symptoms persist or change at all please get tested. Covid-19 affects people differently. What is does is triggers an immune response that is a potential cascade of inflammation in the body most notably in the lungs and in the sack that encases the heart. These are hard and tense times. If you feel sick please get in touch with a health care provider. The days of showing up for work and gutting out the flu are clearly over.
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it does give us something to ponder what is the new normal are we ready for it it will be here, ready or not be safe To leave private messages, please use my confidential mailbox at my blog: Good luck!!!
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10/3/2020 6:46 pm |
As a health professional who deals with virology I have seen a lot of people who for a variety of reasons are rightfully concerned they might have covid if they are under the weather. If symptoms persist or change at all please get tested. Covid-19 affects people differently. What is does is triggers an immune response that is a potential cascade of inflammation in the body most notably in the lungs and in the sack that encases the heart. These are hard and tense times. If you feel sick please get in touch with a health care provider. The days of showing up for work and gutting out the flu are clearly over.
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Tis the season for allergies. That's probably all it is. And goodness knows allergies can pretty well kick your ass and make you feel like you're dying! Definitely not something to sneeze at. 
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Tis the season for allergies. That's probably all it is. And goodness knows allergies can pretty well kick your ass and make you feel like you're dying! Definitely not something to sneeze at. Pagan  Hmmmm....I know I left that wand around here somewhere!
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I got my flu shot a few weeks ago.... This truly is fall time sniffles. When its 70 degrees one day and a rainy 50 degrees the next, stuff like this happens. Par for the course.
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The Ragweed got heavy last week and I got stuffy and a cough but no fever. El Douche declared he had Covid and checked into a County funded hotel to wait for his test results, which came back negative today. This is his 2nd "covid vacay". 
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Now days it seems if u begin to feel bad, u have to check ur medical plan, call in and say I have Chapter 3. page four, paragraph 27, with addendum 4 and 99...... Good luck...
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A few people I work with have had family members get it.... Family that does not live up here, we've been relatively lucky up here. In each case, they all had a day that was feverish and feeling like shit, a few days before and after of coughing and wheezing, and then the mend.
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10/3/2020 3:53 pm |
The Ragweed got heavy last week and I got stuffy and a cough but no fever. El Douche declared he had Covid and checked into a County funded hotel to wait for his test results, which came back negative today. This is his 2nd "covid vacay".
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10/3/2020 3:48 pm |
Now days it seems if u begin to feel bad, u have to check ur medical plan, call in and say I have Chapter 3. page four, paragraph 27, with addendum 4 and 99...... Good luck...
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Here's to a sniffly Saturday...
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