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

[Hayden Goseek]

Apparently I have an irregular heartbeat. That’s what the 3 hearts mean. This machine plays a song while it measures!

It may be Atrial Fibrillation. It is common in Covid and is usually temporary. Your heart, like everything is under a lot of stress and it can effect the electrical conduction. Let your doctor know, Especially if it accompanied by a high heart rate. (>120).

 

[h2oratt]

I was telling a patient that when a dental resident walked in behind me. She slugged me in the shoulder.

When I drew blood in the hospital, morning rounds, I saw how hard all the nurses worked. I never choose that as a career path.

 

[Beer can]

I am fully vaccinated. Most of us in the family are. And to those worrying about symptoms, err on the side of caution. Things can go downhill really fast. My aunt was fighting a mild case, and was nearly done with it when pneumonia set in. My cousin, her daughter, is a nurse and took her to the hospital in the early afternoon. She was gone by midnight.
I work in the public school system. They're sending students and teachers home every day. I'm terrified to go back to work, tomorrow, but bills have to be paid ...

Love you my friend, it was scary for us, didn't know who would live, we did, keep your head up, we will beat this one way or another.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

I had a minimal reaction to the first shot. The second one pretty much laid me flat for three days. Doctor told me it was probably because I had already had Covid. Apparently the first shot primed my defenses and the second sent them into full-blown attack mode. Yay. Not. Still, I'd do it again. My guess is that we all will, once this becomes endemic, like the flu. At least, by then, we'll likely have treatments and weaker variants. {{ ... sigh ... }}

I had a biology teacher in college that was antivax. He said that vaccinations create diseases that are vaccine and antibiotic resistant such as MERSA...and SARS...they dont make the virus less prevalent or weaker. What makes it weaker is having to mutate into something else to spread. Viruses are all around us and some of them affect us and some do not. Im no expert and I dont claim to be but if someone has more knowledge on the subject feel free to chime in.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Does it eat all your goodies in the middle of the night? We have one of those.

No but it does make the cat poo magically disappear

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

It may be Atrial Fibrillation. It is common in Covid and is usually temporary. Your heart, like everything is under a lot of stress and it can effect the electrical conduction. Let your doctor know, Especially if it accompanied by a high heart rate. (>120).

An EKG could determine that. Its important to remember that if you werent checking it before covid that covid could be causing it. If your breath is affected your heart will be too. Thats why my doctor did a chest xray as well to determine if its my lungs and not my heart causing the problem

 

[Hayden Goseek]

When I drew blood in the hospital, morning rounds, I saw how hard all the nurses worked. I never choose that as a career path.

Thanks. I love it. It is a second career for me so I have a little different perspective than a lot of nurses. (And a LOT older. ) It's hard work but every now and then you get to really help someone. I probably should have found a desk job or management by now but I love working with my patients.

 

[Beer can]

I had a biology teacher in college that was antivax. He said that vaccinations create diseases that are vaccine and antibiotic resistant such as MERSA...and SARS...they dont make the virus less prevalent or weaker. What makes it weaker is having to mutate into something else to spread. Viruses are all around us and some of them affect us and some do not. Im no expert and I dont claim to be but if someone has more knowledge on the subject feel free to chime in.

Just going to quote a post of mine, when I was kinda wondering something similar;
https://www.backyardchickens.com/posts/24962796

 

[h2oratt]

Thanks. I love it. It is a second career for me so I have a little different perspective than a lot of nurses. ( And a LOT older.) It's hard work but every now and then you get to really help someone. I probably should have found a desk job or management by now but I love working with my patients.

My second career was library assistant.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Just going to quote a post of mine, when I was kinda wondering something similar;
https://www.backyardchickens.com/posts/24962796

That to me just presents more questions rather than answers. "When antibiotics are used for things other than bacterial infections, like the flu, or not taken as the doctor prescribed (e.g., stopping taking the antibiotics earlier than the intended full course of treatment), they will become less effective for future bacterial infections and possibly acquire resistance genes."https://www.medbroadcast.com/channe...s that,many different antibiotics, a superbug.