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

[Sequel]

Sooooooo, PNW I just looked. I have family in Anacortes.... How close is that for y'all?

It’s north of me. I live on the west side of Puget Sound. Anacortes is on the other side and north but I’m not sure how far.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I appreciate the honesty and thoughtful reference point. Admittedly the last few weeks I have had a metric crap-tonne of stuff to overwhelm me. Getting a new roof, two dogs with Vet visits (one was preparing for a end of life visit, one today for a freak balloning in the elbow 6 days ago) & a car accident w/everyone is okay......got back frommvet and I'm way past ready for a nap......

 

[SnapdragonQ]

So I gotta ask. Do you recall the sit-com "Alice" from the 80's? That hair style & color made me think of Flo from that series. She was an absolute hoot! (Hope you can appreciate the visual nugget)

OMG...I have't thought of Flo since Buck was a calf!!

 

[Beer can]

COVID-19 Vaccine Study • Meridian Clinical Research

https://www.mcrmed.com/covid/

Paying $1,500 I heard.

 

[BullChick]

I can’t remember why I had scissors in my vest, but I was on the bike, and my mother was in the van behind us with my nephew. Playing with my husband’s hair while riding was typical. He happened to have scraggly hair, so I cut it. We pulled into a restaurant, and my nephew jumped out of the van yelling, “she cut your hair! Oh my goodness, she cut your hair! You were riding, and she just cut it!” I can still see my nephew’s eyes bugging out.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I am not responsible for any unintelligible posts from yesterday morning, when incubator hatching started, until who knows when. I'm a zombie this morning..it is morning, right?
10 chicks are out and 8 eggs remain.

 

[MROO]

There are some excellent youtube tutorials on repairing appliances. Our washer quit working about 6 weeks ago and we googled the error code and order the part which was fairly easily replaced. $246 repair which to me is a godsend considering what new machines cost.

If the washer isn't working, anyway, there's no harm in attempting a repair. Whatta ya gonna do, break it?

 

[ShrekDawg]

That's a movie reference [Topgun] to being so tired that I crashed before I could set the phone on the nightstand......

Last few nights I have been so tired.... Litterally minutes to second from laying in bed, putting on CPAP to falling asleep.....

Ah okay! I actually did start watching it once just to see what all the hype was about but I didn’t really like it and turned it off.

 

[SegiDream]

Oh Yay I finally caught up, I've been trying for 3 days to catch up omg

I get what you're saying.
I was pointing out what people think and reality when it's them is different.

Most people sooner or later will be on some kind of maintenance RX...or die

I have to say something to this too, not mad or upset at all and I understand that maybe the whole topic was brought up for a different meaning. I'd like to share some of my experience maybe that will help others understand what this is like. I'm also on a maintenance medication. There's a 90% mortality rate if I don't take it. Trust me I'd rather not be on it because I do NOT want any of the horrible side effects that it can potentially cause. But I definitely want to try to live longer than the 10 year maximum life expectancy if I don't take it.

I also do not enjoy being on medications, the fewer the better I say because the risks increase as well. At one point I think they had me on like 4 and was happy when I could come off of those others but it's possible I still need to be on something like estrogen (sigh). I'm also on extra supplements because my body doesn't absorb vitamin D or B12 like it should and even those supplements don't work very well for me. I have lupus SLE, graves, maybe hashimotos I gain weight like crazy or (rarely) lose it from thyroid issues and it drives me crazy because doctors don't understand nor do they really care to try to understand what's going on, maybe celiac, sjorgens/sicca, raynauds, PMLE, some kind of freaking weird painful psoriasis that comes up on the palm side of my fingers. Really weird stuff happens with my body and I just have to deal with it. I had adenomyosis and a hysterectomy, it was one of those low risk 3% chance conditions you can have from a c-section yay lucky me but it also took 3 gyno doctors, 10 years, multiple ultrasounds, and constant anemia showing up on my blood work from the rheumy's office to finally arrive at a diagnosis on that one thing.

My friends have asked me many times over the years "have you looked at diet/exercise/chiropractor to control this". And I want to scream cause I'm like don't you think I'm trying and am always trying to figure it out? You think I can make a few changes or take an herb and it just magically solves everything, afford to keep a chiro in business because it may help? Take the psioriasis for example sunlight is supposed to help but sunlight flares my lupus and PMLE. Then take my parents for example who don't understand there are days when I just do not feel well at all, they think I can just work through it ignore the pain and discomfort just keep going and to many extents I do. It's just that they don't feel what I physically feel and otherwise I look healthy therefore they do not understand it. When you don't have health issues the "answers" may seem simple but in reality many of the answers are not and it is a very difficult and long struggle for many people from dealing with doctors, dealing with finding a diagnosis, dealing with finding the right treatments and lifestyle changes but also dealing with people who think they know better. If what works for someone means treating them with multiple medications and they're fine with that and so are their doctors then so be it.

Ok done oops another book.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Ah okay! I actually did start watching it once just to see what all the hype was about but I didn’t really like it and turned it off.

I get that.
It has a very late 80's vibe. I don't think you were even born yet, right??