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. |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Charmion Date: 04 Mar 23 - 09:11 PM Indeed. |
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 - 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 - 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: Donuel Date: 04 Mar 23 - 09:42 AM Stay tuned for Rebrexit. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Stanron Date: 04 Mar 23 - 09:33 AM For short term relief only try seven, or more if you dare, chilli flakes on your tongue. Keep them there as long as possible. If it doesn't work blame Brexit. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Donuel Date: 04 Mar 23 - 08:53 AM Get well sooner or later. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 Mar 23 - 08:38 AM Get tested, eh? So what supernatural power have you obtained that informs you that I'm not testing? Are you actually capable of making interventions that aren't completely stupid? Cheers, Charmion. I could use some fresh air but it's horribly chilly here and a sudden change in temperature just gets me hacking away! In the words of the Lord (or at least the Bible writer who made it up...), this too shall pass (or was it a Persian bloke...) |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Charmion Date: 04 Mar 23 - 07:50 AM Oh, Steve! You have my deepest sympathy, and even a prayer to St. Roch (patron of the sore throat). Been there, didn’t like it either, got the scars to prove it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Donuel Date: 04 Mar 23 - 07:48 AM Get tested |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 Mar 23 - 06:41 AM Terrible night. All sinuses and other head passages above the chest, totally blocked. The pain across the bridge of my nose and around my eye sockets, legendary. Nostrils red raw. A throat that feels like I've spent the night gargling with gravel. Sneezing for England. This is no lingering head cold. This is me lingering around a severe rheumy purge. If this isn't man flu, I don't know what is. Kleenex share prices have doubled. I need everyone to feel sorry for me please. I comfort myself with the fact that it's yet another ague that I (hopefully) can't die of. Just be grateful that viruses can't transmit across the internet. My mum would have told me to offer it up for the holy souls. They can just bugger off as far as I'm concerned. They should have behaved better while they were here. Purgatory is the here and now. Oh woe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Mar 23 - 06:32 PM Anyway, back on the rheumy misery front, the conjunctivitis has responded nicely to the chloramphenicol drops, but the damn things are giving me stinging eyes and a sore nose and throat, and I'm still utterly bunged up on the sinus front. Woe is me. But O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? :-) :-) :-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Mar 23 - 05:37 PM Go and see someone. . |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Donuel Date: 03 Mar 23 - 05:32 PM People who eat bananas appeal to mosquitos. COs is a magnet to mosquitos. Steve quote "Not personal, eh, so what's this then: "Jet engines are 100 decibels so you are indeed a blow hard at 130. (that was a joke similar to yours) Ah its getting late, the sun will soon be up and my procrastination posting time is running out. You on the other hand have all day to protest too much. That's as personal as it gets. Now either shut up or stick..Steve quote Dear Mr. Shaw, It's not personal, it is business. It is the business of Authoritarianism or the authoritarian personality. One must always remember that the bully suffers such low self esteem/worth that they gain some small satisfaction by trying to take others down to the hellish level of the bully's tortured soul. It is not a delusion of grandeur that drives the bully. It is a self-hatred and envy that poisons their words and actions. The ammunition of the bully is personified by the Trump rhetoric. The name calling, accusations, nicknames and the claims of massive evidence that doesn't exist are the small arms weapons of the bully. The heavy arms and armor are lawsuits and ability to cause harm financially as well as socially. The spectrum of this pathological behavior ranges from those who believe it is expected of them to the Stalin-Hitler examples. One might think that the social psychopath causes more destruction but in terms of quantity, destructive interaction mostly comes from the tortured envy of the narcissist. Psychopathic or psychotic serial killers are far more rare phenomenon. Taking any of narcissist's bile to heart is a victory for them. In the larger scheme of sticks and stones a bully is a force of nature like a fart in the wind, If you have the sniffles you won't even smell it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Mar 23 - 12:58 PM Oops, my iPad went doolally... I was trying to say that I get bitten to smithereens by horseflies, aka clegs, every summer round here, but the nasty little itchy lumps go away in about five or ten minutes. On the other hand, Mrs Steve suffers miseries with them for hours if not days. But the bloody mozzies... You can buy little tubes of hydrocortisone bite 'n' stings cream in supermarkets these days. Not bad. Anthisan doesn't work for me at all, and it stinks! |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Mar 23 - 12:47 PM Not personal, eh, so what's this then: "Jet engines are 100 decibels so you are indeed a blow hard at 130. Ah its getting late, the sun will soon be up and my procrastination posting time is running out. You on the other hand have all day to protest too much. That's as personal as it gets. Now either shut up or stick to the thread, right? Just a suggestion... |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 03 Mar 23 - 12:44 PM Mosquitos and suchlike seem to like the smell of people with certain blood groups. Herself always get bit, while I have no trouble. I've suggested before now that she should change her blood group, but she ain't 'avin' it for some reason. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Donuel Date: 03 Mar 23 - 06:01 AM Jet engines are 100 decibels so you are indeed a blow hard at 130. Ah its getting late, the sun will soon be up and my procrastination posting time is running out. You on the other hand have all day to protest too much. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Mar 23 - 04:24 AM Well I have a typical Lancashire nose and I can't sneeze at less than 130 decibels! I'm glad you said that about those so-called "non-drowsy" antihistamines - Mrs Steve thinks I'm a wimp because they invariably knock me for six. That's fine as long as I take them not too long before bedtime... |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Senoufou Date: 03 Mar 23 - 02:40 AM Steve, my husband gets the same effects as you do from Piriton - it turns him into a dozy zombie. My (doctor) sister has recommended many alternatives, but they all seem to make him very sleepy. When in Africa, I too have been eaten alive by mozzies, and I can't stand bloomin' Deet either! At least I take the usual anti-malarials (Malarone tablets) and have never had malaria. Husband can't seem to sneeze quietly ("AAAAAAACHOOOOOOOOO!") and his poor nose, (which is flat and small with very open nostrils, like all Africans) just lets in the pollen very easily. He had no contact with tree/grass pollen before he came to the UK, so it's hit him hard. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 02 Mar 23 - 07:42 PM I sometimes get a bit overwhelmed by mozzie bites in summer, Eliza (horsefly bites don't bother me). I hate putting on repellent, that's the trouble, especially the only one that seems to work (DEET). Last summer I bought some of that Piriton stuff you mentioned, thinking that it would calm down the bites while I was in bed. It worked a treat, but it also turned me into a 12-hour zombie! I found that the two weaker ones, ceterizine and loratidine, did the trick and gave me a good night's kip. I'm not recommending anything here, as we're all different and we shouldn't be handing out medical advice, just responding to your mention of Piriton! |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 02 Mar 23 - 06:26 PM Really? Go on, give me an example! As I've only just posted that, you couldn't have spent long researching my misdemeanours, could you, Helen? A bit kneejerk, eh? :-) By the way, I could suggest that you do the same googling as I recommended to Donuel, lest you find that you are making a fool of yourself by supporting his Beethoven nonsense! |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Helen Date: 02 Mar 23 - 06:20 PM Pot calling kettle black, Steve: "The trouble is that you find a single source that suits your agenda then regale us with it as though it's the unalloyed truth, your typical modus operandi." |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 02 Mar 23 - 06:16 PM "New tests confirm..." Yeah, classic weasel words, no backup. Do your homework. Beethoven died at the age of 57, an age not out of order for his time, and was known to be a big wine drinker. Yes he was ill with several different ailments for several years before he died, including stomach disorders and kidney disease, but there is no definitive evidence that he suffered from symptoms of lead poisoning or died of it. The trouble is that you find a single source that suits your agenda then regale us with it as though it's the unalloyed truth, your typical modus operandi. The real truth is that the causes of his ailments and his death are still very much disputed, as a quick google would demonstrate to you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Donuel Date: 02 Mar 23 - 05:50 PM Beethoven Suffered from Lead Poisoning New tests confirm that Ludwig van Beethoven suffered from lead poisoning. The legendary composer, who experienced decades of illness that left him in misery for most of his life, died in 1827. Researchers aren't sure why his lead levels were so high, but they have some ideas.Dec 6, 2005 The wine at that time was leaded. ARE Irainian girls being POISONED? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/1/why-are-schoolgirls-being-mysteriously-poisoned-in-iran |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Steve Shaw Date: 02 Mar 23 - 05:38 PM Cheers, Eliza. I don't actually feel poorly, but it's just that I could benefit from a head transplant... ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: keberoxu Date: 02 Mar 23 - 05:34 PM My eighth day with this head cold. Am now coming out the other side of the tunnel, as it were. Sleeping better for it. It's just the waking hours, drinking fluids and clearing out the sinuses, that are still a drag. |
Subject: RE: BS: Lingering Head Cold... From: Senoufou Date: 02 Mar 23 - 11:39 AM So sorry Steve that you're not well. Hope you get better very soon. My husband always suffers badly from hay-fever every year, but just now he's started sneezing and snuffling rather early. I'm wondering if the unusually warm, sunny weather has brought some tree pollen or other pollen into the air. There are lots of hazel catkins out around here, and maybe it's that. Piriton/Piritese at the ready! (It's not Covid, as he has to test himself twice a week, being a school cleaner, and the tests are always negative.) |