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

[Folly's place]

For those of us who had chickenpox, and not (yet!) shingles, in my experience, shingles starts as pain, then a rash that hurts rather than itches. It looks a lot like poison ivy, but is painful, especially up the nerve tracts towards the spinal cord.
Very unpleasant! And in my case, didn't realize at first what was going on, until it was too late to get that medication.
Mary

 

[bruceha2000]

Its ok I wasnt offended

I'm glad, I wasn't intending to be mean or rude.

But you can get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox before.

Right, which is why if you have open sore shingles you should stay away from babies and pregnant women.

For those of us who had chickenpox, and not (yet!) shingles, in my experience, shingles starts as pain, then a rash that hurts rather than itches. It looks a lot like poison ivy, but is painful, especially up the nerve tracts towards the spinal cord.
Very unpleasant! And in my case, didn't realize at first what was going on, until it was too late to get that medication.
Mary

Not in my case. I had a searing pain running down my back around to my left quad then down to my toes. Every so often there was a horrid stabbing pain in my quad. Never felt the rash, my wife noticed it on my back. I had been to the doctor for the pain in my leg the day before, they figured I just strained my quad, never physically checked me. After DW saw the sore, Googled her suspicion, I went to the urgent care place. Yep, shingles. They gave me some gabapentin.

 

[Sydney65]

You cannot get shingles from someone with chickenpox

You cannot get shingles from someone with shingles or chickenpox. But you can get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox before.

Source: immunizebc.ca/askus

This is my understanding as well. But like I said, it was his dime

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

I'm glad, I wasn't intending to be mean or rude.


Right, which is why if you have open sore shingles you should stay away from babies and pregnant women.


Not in my case. I had a searing pain running down my back around to my left quad then down to my toes. Every so often there was a horrid stabbing pain in my quad. Never felt the rash, my wife noticed it on my back. I had been to the doctor for the pain in my leg the day before, they figured I just strained my quad, never physically checked me. After DW saw the sore, Googled her suspicion, I went to the urgent care place. Yep, shingles. They gave me some gabapentin.

Sounds damn awful. My boss at my previous place of work said she had a rash she was worried about and I looked at it. Turns out after my poor misdiagnosis it was anxiety related ( i thought it was shingles) she was fine

 

[h2oratt]

I thought I looked, but I will look again.

Sorry, I meant to say that is very scary, looks like another wave of covid coming..mandatory masks again in California’s.

 

[h2oratt]

Havent been able to post much. I worked all day and my phone internet is super slow until the end of the month. I finally heard back from central scheduling and scheduled my echocardiogram. I'm having it done on Christmas Eve. Hopefully Santa brings me some good news? Still no word from my doctor. I think she's blowing me off until ALL my results are in. Felt dizzy most of today but I think my body is just trying to get used to the medication. Anxiety is super high so I'm really interested in that one method @h20ratt posted.

It is on YouTube and Ted talks

 

[h2oratt]

Very uplifting story.



As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.


One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.

In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.

Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.

Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”



HAPPY AND SAFE HOLIDAYS 2021

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Thanks, h2o, great story!

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Good morning everybody! Here's your daily covid news:

• The Biden administration on Thursday filed two emergency applications in the Supreme Court, asking the justices to revive a requirement that health care workers at hospitals that receive federal money be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
• CDC recommends Moderna or Pfizer over J&J due to blood clots
• 103 Marines booted for not getting the shot
• South Africa reports lower rate of hospital admissions and signs that the wave of infections may be peaking. Considering Omicron originated there this is a very good sign.
• Therapists are having trouble keeping up with the demand for therapy due to Covid

Feeling calmer today. Didn't have to force down my breakfast toast. I'll check out that breathing video in a bit here. Thank you for posting it!

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

It is on YouTube and Ted talks

I think I'd prefer to talk to my doctor before trying this. Especially since he said "if you have any cardiovascular problems, don't do it."