Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[ChocolateMouse]

Yep. Everyone has a different go at it. The lung damage and lingering effects can be real even if symptoms are mild. G is a professionally trained singer/flute player and even tho his symptoms are all but gone he still can't do the things he could two months ago. His taste is back but when he tries to sing certain notes he breaks out coughing which is distressing.

 

[Cynthia12]

Thanks, Rainey! Oh yes, it definitely matters! I'd lot rather know I have an uncomfortable but harmless sinus infection than have Covid, which might result in my getting entubated and possibly die from! I'm high-risk and we have a special-needs kid to finish raising. Neither DH nor I can do it alone, and there is no one else to step up and help. Please God, don't let us have Covid.

Oh my! Your Avvy! Hard to tell in photo..just loving that face..is that a standard size? Or a Sheltie?

 

[Cynthia12]

Good morning. We are positive for Covid. DH is coughing pretty good but has no fever. I have headache, body ache and fever (100.0), but not much coughing. Very tired, low energy. House arrest coninues for another week. Hopefully it doesn't get any worse than this!

Prayers!

 

[MROO]

Oh, and mine was hooked to my regular electric fence with coated wire, which is charged with a solar charger.
I used this (below) because I needed a way to unhook it when I wanted to open a section to go in the garden area-
Coated 12 gauge wire
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/american-farmworks-underground-cable-50-ft
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You just snip off the coating on the ends and hook it where you want it. It can be buried, handled, left out, ect. I've also coated regular 14 gauge wire with electrical tape for a make shift "handle"

I think I'm going to go with solidifying the wooden defenses, putting bigger washers on the wire so it can't be dug out and running a single strand of hog-fence around the bottom where a fox/dog/coon would begin sniffing around for a way in. A couple of good "bites" should be a deterrent. As always, predator protection is never complete ... it's always a work-in-progress. That's Lesson Two in any good "How to Keep Chickens" manual. Lesson One is all about Chicken Math!

 

[MROO]

MROO, did you end up in the hospital? Or were able to just treat at home with rest, fluid and supportive care?

No hospital, but only barely. My oxygen dipped to 90 before I realized that was the threshold. I was lucky. A steam bath cleared my breathing back to in a few hours. At my next medical update (by phone) I got royally chewed out for not going directly to the ER that night. I am prone to asthmatic bronchitis, so I'm considered high risk. Again ... I was VERY lucky. I would/will NOT make that mistake again!
I'm now a long ways out from covid, but still have some leftover breathing issues. I wouldn't call me a long-hauler, but I am acutely aware of my breathing these days ... which is something you don't usually think about on a daily basis. That's a bit discomfiting, but hey, I'm here and functioning. It's all good!

 

[IamRainey]

I'm glad your fingers can do the talking here, Aunt Angus! Rest your throat.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oh my! Your Avvy! Hard to tell in photo..just loving that face..is that a standard size? Or a Sheltie?

Lol, Sheltie. He looks like Pinnocchio though, haha!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

No hospital, but only barely. My oxygen dipped to 90 before I realized that was the threshold. I was lucky. A steam bath cleared my breathing back to in a few hours. At my next medical update (by phone) I got royally chewed out for not going directly to the ER that night. I am prone to asthmatic bronchitis, so I'm considered high risk. Again ... I was VERY lucky. I would/will NOT make that mistake again!
I'm now a long ways out from covid, but still have some leftover breathing issues. I wouldn't call me a long-hauler, but I am acutely aware of my breathing these days ... which is something you don't usually think about on a daily basis. That's a bit discomfiting, but hey, I'm here and functioning. It's all good!

We got an oximeter so I can keep an eye on everybody. Thanks I did not know 90 was the panic threshold.

 

[Shadrach]

We got an oximeter so I can keep an eye on everybody. Thanks I did not know 90 was the panic threshold.

How are you doing in there BigBlueHen53?

 

[IamRainey]

We got an oximeter so I can keep an eye on everybody. Thanks I did not know 90 was the panic threshold.

I think it's a flexible concept. 95% is when my doctor starts trying to impress on me that I need to take things seriously. But then I, like MROO, have a long history of asthma and bronchitis and also trouble identifying difficulty until I get into bigger trouble.

On a different note, my daughter got her second vaccine injection. She said that one was rough. Lots of soreness in her arm and a day in bed with flu-like symptoms (be aware; do it anyway!) but now she's far safer than she's been for the last year.

Can't tell you how relieved we all are and how grateful that she got through this awful year without getting infected or bringing infection home to her family.

Fingers crossed that those vaccines will get rolled out into the public!