... the bloody Covid club!

Have had a heavy old since Wednesday and have been sleeping heavily. Took a rapid antigen test before heading off to work today, only to call in and say "See you in 7 days"!

Luckily Karen is clear but she'll be taking daily tests for a week.

Well, at least I got it now, not in a months time as our holiday is set to start.

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Best wishes for a prompt and complete recovery, Kiwi.

Congratulations!

Well . . . anyway . . . hope you'll be feeling better quickly.

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Kick its butt.

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I have seen an uptick here in the states in the last few weeks. One travel to the Midwest, one to Florida and another to a party locally. Several had a lot of comorbidities and a couple are in their 70s. All are vaccinated and are recovering uneventfully with medication.
ETA two of them gave it to their spouse and one has an unvaccinated spouse who did I get it but who also did not travel with him. The spouses who did get it were with the original victim but got symptoms later. Because of the delay I only presume they got it from the spouse.

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I thought mine was allergies from traveling at first, but it dragged on so eventually I took the home test. Yep, I too joined the club.

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An allergy attack was the exact thought that two of my friends had when they first came down with it


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I just got over it. I'm 73 and the wife is 69. She had very few problems with it, I was a bit sicker.
It took us about 10 days to get back to near normal. Still moving a bit slower and taking a few extra naps but that is the only change. Every day we both have more energy so the stuff is beatable.

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Seven days? It's three days at my employer and that's only if you test. If you don't test they don't care if you come to work with full blown symptoms.

The average US employer's attitude towards sickness is so 19th century and long beyond a joke.

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My wife came down with symptoms Sunday afternoon. No temp, stuffed up head, slightly nauseous. did the test thing Monday.
Came back +. I Have had a slight headache off and on, no fever. Her doctor said for me to not even test; I have a 99% chance of being +. Been isolating all week. We were supposed to be in Wisconsin this week for a family summer get together. Scratch that!
Talked to a few friends; seems quite a few people from our church congregation are down with the covid this week.

Our entire management staff passed it back and forth last month and they all came to work hacking, coughing, pouring snot, running fevers. Got dozens of employees sick. When I challenged a manager on it he informed me smugly that the company does not believe it's real.

I was at a week long scientific meeting in Charleston SC three weeks ago, At the end of the week roughly 30% were positive on the Flow Test, and these are people who were masked and careful. All had full vaccinations and boosters as a condition of attending but Omicron BA5 got us!! Dave_n

Um sir(and or ma'am), I think that means you are pregnant. I would double check to see if the rabbit done died.

I have now had it twice in 4 months. A mild case in May, took some HCQ and was over it in about 3-4 days. Wife never got it.

Then July 19th my wife and I met with a lady who was going to teach VBS but had sick kids. That was a Tuesday, by Thursday night we were feeling it and it was full blown by the next day. This one was much different, we both got it and it was a full two weeks for both of us and I am still dragging a bit. According to our research the first was Omicron, the second BR5.

I was guilty of this, when people say they had Covid, that is a big spread and can mean anything with all the different variants. Not much you can do, we slept for nearly 4 days straight and I still often feel like an afternoon snooze. We literally had every symptom the different flus have had, stomach, headache, major fatigue, brain fog, fever, chills, you name it, we had it nearly in lock step with each other. Some things are not fun to share and I didn't a chance to be whimpy and pampered by my wife! It was not fun.

Red Forman had a suitable name for that guy and his ilk.

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Do the newer test differentiate from the common cold viruses?

John

Everybody is going to catch COVID. It's too virulent and the symptoms overall too mild to prevent spreading. We seem to be holding steady at about one death per congressional district per day, and it's going to just spread into the viral soup within we all exist.

Even at it's worst, it had a 99.9% survival rate.

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I had it last week. Thought it was a mild cold or allergies, until one of my employees called Sunday afternoon and said she tested positive. My only symptoms were just a mildly stuffy nose and slight cough.

Symptomatic on Friday, hiked 5 miles along the beach on Saturday, tested positive on Sunday, and a negative test yesterday. Felt pretty normal all week. Had my 2 Pfizer shots and a Pfizer booster. Confirmed it doesn’t work against the latest BA.5 strain. It’s A week later and I am firing on all 8 cylinders.

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Kiwi, welcome to the club, membership is not overly exclusive. Despite having both shots and the first booster I came down with it in late April. Symptoms were not horrible and for the most part were short lived, except for two, the “Covid brain” and iffy balance persisted four or so weeks.

wishing you a full and speedy recovery

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Best wishes for a speedy recovery Kiwi and spouse.

Welcome to the club....

I came down with it last Sunday and ended up in the ER Tuesday afternoon . I don't know which was worse , my gallbladder or this . It seems it attacked my lower intestine on it's way through my body . It keeps getting better ..... They told me to eat gluten free . Wed night my wife made a nice meal and 0100 in the morning I was hugging the toilet . You just don't know what all gluten is in until you can't have it . I go see the GI Dr Monday morning and I hope I won't have to eat like this too long . Let me tell you the ER Dr said it's hitting here hard and the older folks get hit the worse .

Friday afternoon Karen started felling ill. A bad headache, aches all over, low grade temperature and a hacking cough. Tested positive Saturday morning (we’re 17 hours ahead of USCT).

Spent most of yesterday morning and early afternoon on the phone to health people, gradually getting to speak to more senior practitioners. By 3 pm it had been decided in consultation with her transplant doctors she needed to go into hospitals for IV anti virals. Ambulance picked her up just after 4.30 pm and took her 1 1/4 hrs north to the regional hospital. She was placed in a very small room until just after 2 am when she was finally seen by a doctor (this is the NZ “fully funded” public health system, which some want the US to adopt, at its best). IV started at 3 am and moved to a proper room at 4 am.

Phoned her at 8 am. She has still got aches and pains, but at least her lungs are clear (BA.5 is the predominant strain here, upper respiratory tract mainly effected and not lungs). They think a couple of days of IV anti virals and then she can come home with district health nurse dropping by every day to complete the course.

As for me, I’m recovering. Didn’t fall asleep yesterday and my symptoms fading.

NZ health policy is 7 days isolation. They even gave me a weeks special “Covid” leave so my annual and sick leave balances will not be effected.

Ryan wasn’t feeling to good yesterday afternoon though, so no doubt he has it now.

It has been less than 6 months since we lost a close transplant friend of Karen’s to Covid complications.

We have all been double faxed. Karen and I have had two boosters (she will be due another booster in 3 months now given she is immuno compromised) while Ryan has had just the one booster. Thankfully BA.5 is far less serious than the original and subsequent strains, while the vaccines help reduce the virus’s effects.

I’m not sure where I was exposed. Possibly a shooting competition last weekend (I first felt mild symptoms Tuesday so a Sunday exposure is possible). We have been careful, (mask wearing, sanitising, social distancing etc).

Probably better we have caught it now than in a few weeks as we are getting ready for our trip in September.

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I can just imagine how worried you are.
Thankfully your country isolated until vaccines and legitimate therapeutics we're available to you.
I'll be Praying for you both.


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Best of luck from Houston!

My wife came home on July 13th from a week of visiting her sister over on the Wet side. Friday the 15th her sister called to say she tested positive.
By Saturday night my wife had the muscle aches and a slight fever. Tested positive Sunday. I spent the week isolating at home the 18th - 22nd. That whole week she had a stuffy head but no other symptoms. I tested negative on Saturday the 23rd.
We've both had the shots, and I had Covid already last January. So far no big deal for either of us, and hope it stays that way.

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I’ve been lucky. Winter before last my stepson tested positive. My wife is an ICU nurse dealing almost exclusively with Covid patients for over a yr and neither me nor her have had it. Or if we did we didn’t know it…… I’m knocking on wood as I type this.

I had it last August, 13 days in hospital, technically dead on Aug 11, 2021. Had it again after a 4th of July Spreader party. 102* fever Saturday noon, in bed all day, good as new Sunday. Never had any shots because as soon as I get lined up the goal posts get moved. Good luck, plenty of fluids. Joe

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Not that bad, just had it.
worse than a cold, not as bad as the flu.

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There's no rhyme or reason as to who gets it and what symptoms . I actually feel human today after going to the GI Dr . I never had a cough or congestion , had a fever for several days . The worst was the stomach problems , I've lost 10 pounds . We've both had the shots and boosters , would hate to see what it would have been like without them .

I am bewildered by the people who say, "I am so grateful to be vaxxed and boosted or else it would have been worse" while describing worse symptoms than people who had no vax at all.

Just goes to show that we are not all the same when it comes to disease.

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Wishing you and Karen the best and a rapid recovery!

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Today Karen was discharged from hospital feeling much better. She'll get a newly approved drug, so new there's none in the country until next week, on the 25th. A two dose injection.

And I tested negative this evening.

Only three weeks until the second leg of our American road trip starts.

Can hardly wait, only there's so much to do to get ready. I have lists of lists to complete.

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Excellent news! Now, get off the forum and get cracking on those lists.

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Lots of interesting news coming out, eh?

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