Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

Morning all

Good morning Granny. How are you today?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Not so good Cap. Not handling this very good but I knew I wouldnt

 

[Don 27]

Randy Reynolds
CORONA Common Sense
Since they are calling on Respiratory therapist to help fight the Corona virus, and I am a retired one, too old to work in a hospital setting. I'm gonna share some common sense wisdom with those that have the virus and trying to stay home. If my advice is followed as given you will improve your chances of not ending up in the hospital on a ventilator. This applies to the otherwise generally healthy population, so use discretion. 1. Only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high. Tylenol, Advil. Motrin, Ibuprofen etc. will bring your fever down allowing the virus to live longer. They are saying that ibuprophen, advil etc will actually exacerbate the virus. Use common sense and don't let fever go over 103 or 104 if you got the guts. If it gets higher than that take your tylenol, not ibuprophen or advil to keep it regulated. It helps to keep house warm and cover up with blankets so body does not have to work so hard to generate the heat. It usually takes about 3 days of this to break the fever. 2. The body is going to dehydrate with the elevated temperature so you must rehydrate yourself regulaly, whether you like it or not. Gatorade with real sugar, or pedialyte with real sugar for kids, works well. Why the sugar? Sugar will give your body back the energy it is using up to create the fever. The electrolytes and fluid you are losing will also be replenished by the Gatorade. If you don't do this and end up in the hospital they will start an IV and give you D5W (sugar water) and Normal Saline to replenish electrolytes. Gatorade is much cheaper, pain free, and comes in an assortment of flavors 3. You must keep your lungs moist. Best done by taking long steamy showers on a regular basis, if your wheezing or congested use a real minty toothpaste and brush your teeth while taking the steamy shower and deep breath through your mouth. This will provide some bronchial dialation and help loosen the phlegm. Force your self to cough into a wet wash cloth pressed firmly over your mouth and nose, which will cause greater pressure in your lungs forcing them to expand more and break loose more of the congestion. 4. Eat healthy and regularly. Gotta keep your strength up. 5. Once the fever breaks, start moving around to get the body back in shape and blood circulating. 6. Deep breath on a regular basis, even when it hurts. If you don't it becomes easy to develope pneumonia. Pursed lip breathing really helps. That's breathing in deep and slow then exhaling through tight lips as if your blowing out a candle, blow until you have completely emptied your lungs and you will be able to breath in an even deeper breath. This helps keep lungs expanded as well as increase your oxygen level. 7. Remember that every medication you take is merely relieving the symptoms, not making you well. 8. If your still dying go to ER.
I've been doing these things for myself and my family for over 40 years and kept them out of the hospital, all are healthy and still living today.
Thank you all for sharing. We gotta help one another.

great information!!
Very helpful. I can't drink Gatorade or any other sugar drinks with the additives, but that's just me. I would probably drink something like magnesium, potassium with honey water .

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Threw you? How did I throw you?

I didnt realize you could tell I was mushy hearted and you could see through me.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

DO NOT WRITE A CHECK THAT WILL BOUNCE!!!! Tell the vet the situation. If you are lucky they will waive the fee or maybe only charge for the drugs. If not they could maybe set up a payment schedule.


Yes she is. Hasn't been on lately so of course now I'm worried about her again.

These vets dont care Bruce. It wont bounce because I havent paid my bills yet. Besides, Robert went in half and we paid cash. I have $5.00 left . LOL

 

[Granny Hatchet]

great information!!
Very helpful. I can't drink Gatorade or any other sugar drinks with the additives, but that's just me. I would probably drink something like magnesium, potassium with honey water .

You cant have sugar Don?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Some of us can see past the bluster. LOL

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant ?

 

[h2oratt]

Good night.

Not so good Cap. Not handling this very good but I knew I wouldnt

He was a beautiful cat. I enjoyed the pictures on Facebook.

 

[Kelsykin]

I didnt realize you could tell I was mushy hearted and you could see through me.

LOL yeah all those with that much bristle and bluster are.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Euthasol isn't a cheap drug. It's a controlled substance. When we took boomer we did it outside and it was expensive. And it's a country vet. Everything is cheaper there.