BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi

Subject: Skarpi being treated for COVID-19
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 06:44 PM

Hey, Skarpi! Thanks for telling us!
It is perfectly (Expletive Deleted) that COVID-19 got to you,
and it's awful to learn how much you are suffering.

We're thinking of you. Hang in there!

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 02:01 AM

May I add my good wishes too Skarpi? I'm sending you 'healing thoughts and best wishes'.

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 04:06 AM

Sending best thoughts and good wishes, Skarpi.
Charlie (fB)

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Ernest
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 04:53 AM

Speedy recovery!
And my best wishes too..
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 09:33 AM

Wishing you WELL, dear Skarpi!

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Lighter
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 09:36 AM

Best wishes from the USA for a prompt recovery, Skarp!

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 10:19 AM

more good wishes (BEST WISHES!) winging their way from the Land of Oz to the the Land of Ice!

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 10:12 AM

The specific antibodies you are making are more up to date than the old vaccines. Enjoy the misery?

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 10:21 PM

Get well! You're as tough as your ancestors, and they fought the Black Death!

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 06:45 AM

Hey Skarpi - if you are experiencing Long COVID - I saw a video on the subject which drew parallels with ME/CFS (long Epstein Barr if you will, aka Glandular fever).

What I took from it (not needing it for COVID) is that vitamin D helps, anti-histamines can help, and....

I never suffered from hay fever till a year after a pretty serious 'flu and a post viral syndrome, the docs (plural) knew it had been a virus (I told them that) but couldn't tell me which - 30 years ago. The video, below, did go into detail about why they think anti-histamines improve the situation, and listed Diphenhydramine and Hydroxyzine (anti-histamines) as two to have been studied. But it is all a question of luck and how effective. We are all different. However vitD is safe enough for the small improvement it might give.

Long COVID and Post-infection Syndromes: What We Know So Far

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: maeve
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 10:14 AM

According to friend Skarpi he is doing OK.

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 01:20 AM

Glad to hear that, Maeve.

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:38 PM

Oh, that IS good news to hear.
Thank you so very much, Maeve.

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 06:01 PM

Get well soon, Skarpi. Drink some brennivin to kill the viruses ;-)
Greetings from Munich,

Andreas a/k/a MudGuard

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 06:13 PM

Mr. Red a lifetime ago I had a bad reaction to a flu vaccine that caused an Epstien Barr syndrome. I don't know about the connection but Barr syndromes are no joke. Fellow mudcatters are 'prescribing' things that are new to me. I'm sticking with antivirals within 5 days after the fact.

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 08:08 AM

Brennivin is not a prescription, it's an inside joke!
I'm not Icelandic and even I know that.

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 09:17 AM

Before we visited Iceland we saw in the guidebook to avoid the fermented shark and brennevin. One small museum we visited offered us both. I may have been the only taker (I'll try anything once). I don't think I'd willingly choose the fermented shark again but I can well believe no virus would stand up to brennevin! Get well soon, Skarpi.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Get Well Soon, Skarpi
From: Lighter
Date: 30 Jun 22 - 09:51 AM

Mmmmmmm! Hakarl! (Cured shark.)

Tastes exactly like freshly used cat litter.

You have to chase it with a slug of schnapps if you want to keep living.

We loved Iceland.