BS: Lingering Head Cold...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Mar 23 - 11:44 AM

Chilli works with everything. I'm making arrabbiata tonight and I don't hold back with the chilli. That might help. Plus the gentle ruby-coloured anaesthetic that come in 75cl bottles...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Mar 23 - 02:52 PM

You’re lucky the affliction isn’t messing with your ability to enjoy wine.

My pre-Christmas bout of COVID put me on the wagon for three weeks. Red wine tasted particularly noxious.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Mar 23 - 05:36 PM

Well I might not be getting the full aroma to my olfactory bulbs, but I get over it... Come on, Charmion, it's SATURDAY!!

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Mar 23 - 09:11 PM

Indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Mar 23 - 10:15 PM

Coming in on this really late - would this be RSV that you're experiencing? There is a test for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 Mar 23 - 02:42 AM

Aaaaagh! Don't mention chillies to me! Since husband moved back in with me (which I'm very happy about of course) he's continuing to cook his fiery hot African sauces, with every chilli imaginable in, including Scotch bonnets. The aroma in our kitchen makes me choke, so how he manages to eat the bloomin' stuff is beyond me. He must have an asbestos mouth.
He's now resorted to putting Vic on his upper lip before he goes to sleep, which he says helps his breathing during the night.
I still think it's the pollen in the hazel catkins which are all over our area of Norfolk. Poor bloke, it must be awful to have the sniffles all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Mar 23 - 07:50 AM

RSV? I suppose it could be, but if it is I think I just have to wait for it to go away. Most of my issues are from my throat up. Mrs Steve puts it all down to the fact that I belong to the weaker sex (but you know me, I'll always fight back, so I accuse her of being a carrier - heheh...)

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Mar 23 - 08:33 PM

Yet to turn the corner with this damned lurgy, and to add to my woes I've had the mother and father of two nosebleeds today. However, we have tickets for "Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of the Dubliners" at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro (a bit of a drive from here) tomorrow evening. I'll croak my way through it, I'm sure. We're taking our daughter with us - she's seen it before and thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread. I've always been a big fan of their songs, especially when Luke was with them. Malheureusement, my daughter is insisting that we dine at Pizza Express first. The last time I went to one of those, I was served up a "sloppy Giuseppe," which was not like any pizza I've encountered before. The central crust was at least 1/4" thick and was doughy, with no charred edges. If that was a pizza then I'm Charlie Chaplin. A travesty in m'humble. They'll be putting pineapple on pizza next and shoving cream in carbonara, the charlatans. Never mind. I'll secrete some Rennies in my cargo pant pockets...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 23 - 10:31 AM

Lingering crud in the back of the sinuses,
so far back it is closer to the throat than the nostrils.
This stuff takes forever to clear out,
at least without that one cough formula.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Mar 23 - 11:38 PM

Steve Shaw, try this: With your thumbs press deep into the flesh of the middle of your cheekbones, pushing against the bones (it will hurt) then tip your head back toward the ceiling for a minute -or less -; your head and sinuses will feel better.

It works for me. ymmv

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 23 - 10:39 AM

There is a rumor that food is medicine. With your diet what's next, gout?

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 11:30 AM

The cold has almost gone (cheers, Ebbie, I'll try that) but the other day I completely shellacked an already shaky tooth* and today it had to come out. 65 quid and half my face a dribbling wreck. On top of that, I had a funeral this morning (a lovely old boy who used to come to our Memory Café), and, on top of THAT, Liverpool are going to get drubbed out of the Champions League tonight.

I'm having a kip now. Don't cross me, right?

*A dire warning to Brits: do NOT eat Jordan's Country Crisp with flame raisins. The raisins are almost as hard as date stones, which I didn't know. I do now. Just one unsuspecting bite on one of those is what demolished my tooth. Avoid!

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 03:04 PM

Husband has had a blocked nose and sniffles for several days, which I thought might be early hay-fever. But this morning he decided to test himself for Covid (He'd kept a box of tests in his drawer) It turned out positive! But the school where he's a cleaner asked him to go in anyway to do cleaning! I think this is quite wrong. He's there while the staff and pupils are still present.
However, he came home early, feeling too tired and poorly. They've asked him to go back yet again this evening to lock up the building.
My doctor sister said he should be self-isolating. I hope I don't catch the bloomin' thing from him!
We'd had all possible jabs, but I think this might be a new mutation.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 10:51 AM

Well, I've got it now. I feel very poorly -my husband has tested me, and I'm positive. I fainted this morning when I got up, and fell onto the bed. We both feel terrible. I hope this will be short-lived.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 01:43 PM

Oh, Senoufou, that's just awful.
Will your husband have to isolate because of close contact with you, having tested positive?

Do what you may to take good care of yourself,
and let us know what happens.
After all, even if you have to stay in the house,
you have always got us to talk with.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 06:40 PM

Get well soon, Sen, you and your husband both!

Yes, it's quite wrong that he’s being summoned to work, germs and all.

I caught COVID in December, after five jabs, and was very sick for three weeks. I assume that it would have sent me to hospital, if not the grave, but for the jabs.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 06:48 PM

A well-known department store in the UK, no names but the one which used to sell St Michael garb, told its staff to go to work anyway despite positive lateral flow tests as long as they felt well enough. Gawd, I dunno...

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 09:17 PM

“Well enough”?

My definition of “well enough” begins with testing negative.

I’m so glad I don’t have to work retail any more.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 02:46 AM

Thank you for your good wishes. Husband is getting better, with just a rather blocked nose. But I am really quite ill. I kept fainting yesterday, and husband had to pick me up off the carpet!
I think it's quite wrong of his work to demand that he goes in. This Covid could make someone vulnerable very ill indeed. I'm staying in bed for now, gasping and blacking out.
My sister said I should feel better in a week or so.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 06:25 AM

Best of health, Senoufou.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 07:22 AM

Thank you MaJoc the Filk. My sister says to stop taking my blood-pressure tablets, as they are making my BP drop too far, which is why I'm fainting. She mentioned 'vasodilation due to the Covid'.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 07:55 AM

Yeah, get well soon! I hear there's a lot more of it about in the Westcountry. I've endured upper respiratory lurgy after lurgy all winter but have tested negative every time so far. And this has been the worst March I can ever remember - except for today's sunshine, but it isn't lasting.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Mar 23 - 06:02 PM

I do hate it when the Mudcat goes walkabout,
as it did yesterday.

Wishing Senoufou/Eliza a steady recovery, regardless of its speed.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 03:26 AM

We've both tested negative (which seems very speedy to me!) and my husband is still rather bunged-up in his nasal passages. He never uses paper tissues, and is getting through literally dozens of cotton hankies! I cough a bit during the night, but am able to do housework during the day, and am not nearly so weak.
Hopefully this is the end of the bloomin' virus, but I suppose it could mutate into another variant. They can't keep vaccinating the population every few weeks, we'd have arms full of holes!
Thank you for all your kind wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 07:03 PM

So glad to hear that Senoufou is now testing negative
and, more importantly, feeling stronger and able to do more.
Keep up the good work!

Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold...
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 03:06 AM

Thank you so much keberoxu. We've had a lovely weekend zooming around our area of Norfolk, having nice cups of tea and doing our supermarket shopping. Husband has two weeks' holiday from his school cleaning (Easter end of term), and I can see he's going from strength to strength. One of his brothers, Nana, and two sisters Hazara & Fatmata have been messaging him, rather worried of course. He's reassured them, and all is well. I'm feeling completely normal now (Husband jokingly says I'm never really 'normal', hee hee)
I think it's prudent if people keep some lateral flow tests in the house to check if they've caught the Lurgy. The symptoms are very like a nasty head cold.