Dammit...coming down with another bug

[BoomerD]

All the usual (for me) signs...back of my throat irritated, sneezing, runny nose, and feeling almost "high" as the virus courses through my system.
I have almost a full box of the Costco "DayQuil" stuff...out of the "NyQuil."

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Hope you start feeling better.

 

[BoomerD]

Hope you start feeling better.

Me also…Mrs. Boomer is coming down with it too…

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I really don't want to add distress to anyone already suffering it.

I'm like Lewis Black's 103-year-old Moms -- or merely following my ancestor who is like Lewis Black's Moms. I get all my vaccinations, as I have for 25 years. My family -- two seniors plus myself -- got through the COVID epidemic without infection by anything, but my family here died in 2022 and 2023 of their pre-existing conditions. Nobody caught COVID; nobody caught a cold; nobody caught the flu.

Boomer's thread sounds like a sequel to his last one, and I just offer my sympathy and well-wishes.

 

[purbeast0]

I had something like that last week and I'm still not fully over it, I still have some congestion. I could feel it coming on last Sunday with the scratchy throat and Monday I felt like crap. I didn't have a fever just a TON of sinus pressure and cough. It wasn't covid though I tested for it. The worst part about it all was my nose being so stuffed up and the pressure behind my nose. I felt bad for a few days but Monday was the worst and then each day I felt slightly better. When I went to the gym Wednesday to lift I felt very exhausted after too.

It sucked but I'm glad it's basically gone now.

 

[BoomerD]

I really don't want to add distress to anyone already suffering it.

I'm like Lewis Black's 103-year-old Moms -- or merely following my ancestor who is like Lewis Black's Moms. I get all my vaccinations, as I have for 25 years. My family -- two seniors plus myself -- got through the COVID epidemic without infection by anything, but my family here died in 2022 and 2023 of their pre-existing conditions. Nobody caught COVID; nobody caught a cold; nobody caught the flu.

Boomer's thread sounds like a sequel to his last one, and I just offer my sympathy and well-wishes.

yeah, it's unusual for me to get sick...this crap is kicking my ass. Twice this year....WTF?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

At the moment, I wouldn't say I'm "having a bad patch" -- but there has been an underlying level of anxiety for a couple days now. I've kept up my daily walking (almost daily!). The anxiety derives from ongoing car repair -- with vehicle delivered to repair-shop today and an acceptable outcome anticipated. More anxiety as I prepare to acquire a new or pre-owned vehicle, but its all under control. There's always anxiety about being old, the uncertain future for an old person, nobody to talk to during the day. The walk generates endorphins and makes me happier.

But no cold, no flu, no COVID -- no arthritis issues, my lungs are clear today upon rising and before any daily walk. I'm going to "think positive". We should all think positive!

So I just hope BoomerD has an improving situation with this infection or illness. Things are tough enough in the 21st century for folks over 70, so some viral or other infection, or compromised feeling of wellness -- it's just a burden none of us needs right now. Heck! Just watching the news makes me feel sick!

 

[Greenman]

I haven't been sick is three 3 years. Luck of the draw I guess as I haven't a flue shot in 6 or 8 years and only had the first 2 covid jabs.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I haven't been sick is three 3 years. Luck of the draw I guess as I haven't a flue shot in 6 or 8 years and only had the first 2 covid jabs.

In my family, all the COVID deniers have caught COVID, maybe taking Paxlovid. Those of us in this household got our flu, shingles, pneumonia, COVID and other shots as recommended or needed over the last 20 years. While two of the family here died of their old age conditions between 2022 and 2023, nobody ever contracted flu, common cold, COVID, pneumonia or any such infections over those twenty years.

I updated my flu and COVID shots three weeks ago.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

All the usual (for me) signs...back of my throat irritated, sneezing, runny nose, and feeling almost "high" as the virus courses through my system.
I have almost a full box of the Costco "DayQuil" stuff...out of the "NyQuil."

At your age it's best to hit the walk-in, family doc, whatever, every time you start getting sick.

 

[Greenman]

In my family, all the COVID deniers have caught COVID, maybe taking Paxlovid. Those of us in this household got our flu, shingles, pneumonia, COVID and other shots as recommended or needed over the last 20 years. While two of the family here died of their old age conditions between 2022 and 2023, nobody ever contracted flu, common cold, COVID, pneumonia or any such infections over those twenty years.

I updated my flu and COVID shots three weeks ago.

20 years without a cold or flue is a very impressive record.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

20 years without a cold or flue is a very impressive record.

It's not a statistical sample, but an anecdotal track record. Looking at it as a matter of probability and knowing that before I embarked on the annual flu-shot routine, I would get the flu or a cold about once every year or so. Maybe every two or three years, here and there.

I'm convinced. Others who hear my story may not be so.

I can be more accurate about this. There was only myself and my Moms in this house from the millennium, and I started taking the regular shots after about 2003. My brother was working at a resort up in the mountains, was deemed disabled no longer able to work after moving here in 2010 -- 6 weeks after starting a job as a banquet chef. He was getting his shots, and he was almost immediately covered by the ACA a year following that. So Moms and I never got sick over more than 20 years, and my brother makes it a small Student-T sample (?) of three people who never had any symptoms we would discuss with this after his homecoming. Three over 12 years and two over 22 years. Not a "scientific" sample of Normal size or common duration, but more reliable than the reported health of one such person, which is me.

 

[pete6032]

All the usual (for me) signs...back of my throat irritated, sneezing, runny nose, and feeling almost "high" as the virus courses through my system.
I have almost a full box of the Costco "DayQuil" stuff...out of the "NyQuil."

Stop picking your nose and start washing your hands after both poop and pee.

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[BonzaiDuck]

Stop picking your nose and start washing your hands after both poop and pee.

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I'm willing to bet that BoomerD is much more hygienic than that. But it's a legitimate point. The latest streaming commercial for ZocDocs has a woman with double pink-eye evading her daughter's question "Have you touched any of my stuff?!"