How are we getting through it?

[Techno 3]

That made me laugh....Thanks, Will.

Emergency provisions will be available tomorrow (Christmas Day) in the mini supermarket, in the village.
AND they're open Boxing day, as well.

'Mini Supermarket' ?....You can just about get anything, food related, there.
Got my Christmas Twiglets, this morning...so as far as I'm concerned I can batten down the hatches.

Have a great Christmas, all. Leon..Take your recovery slowly.

Take care, All.

[Steve J]

I'd not try and rush back too soon Leon, given that you can experience bouts of long covid for quite some time afterwards. Fingers crossed you'll feel all OK come the New Year. Rest works wonders and when you feel up to it, slowly returning to normal stuff is good, but it is surprising how quickly you can become tired despite feeling OK.

As for tall people, when I lived in Surbiton there was a local basketball team and one day one of the players was walking down the street and was quite literally head and shoulders above everyone else, to the point of having to duck to enter shops. At basketball after school one evening thatere was a match on and in the warm up, one of the players was over 7' tall and yet was an airline pilot: I always wondered how he managed to fit into the cockpit...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Woke up this morning and had a great pressy - positive covid test,

[Steve J]

Well that's rubbish Ian! Hope you feel OK and don't get hit hard by the damned virus. SWMBO is getting over a filthy cold and I fear I might be going down with it .

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Dont seem to get colds any more, as this feel light headed, and sneezing a lot. Legs are weak as well.

[toxicpixie]

Dont seem to get colds any more, as this feel light headed, and sneezing a lot. Legs are weak as well.

Rest up, as Steve J says the bad long term effects seem to be triggered by overdoing things whilst you're virus ridden or still recovering!

Same to you and folks, Leon - my week off set us back a week at work, but self employed/small business must be really awkward

[Leon]

Still no let-up here sadly, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, constant coughing.  Adele's driven me in to the office for a couple of hours just to catch up on emails but that'll be it for today.

Woke up this morning and had a great pressy - positive covid test,

Take it easy, it ain't fun!

[Ithoriel]

Adele's driven me in to the office for a couple of hours just to get some peace and quiet from me

FIFY

Take it easy, it ain't fun!

Same to you, Leon, take care of yourself!

<Hugz> to you all.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Still no let-up here sadly, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, constant coughing.  Adele's driven me in to the office for a couple of hours just to catch up on emails but that'll be it for today.

Take it easy, it ain't fun!

Couhghing overnight and perpetually runny nose ot6herwise about right now.

[Steve J]

Hope you both begin to feel better soon, Ian and Leon .

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Ta La

[Heedless Horseman]

This thread has gone quiet for a while. How are we all doing?
Myself, after, Three BAD hits from what I 'think'  may have been New covid, last spring/summer... I have had a few periods when 'unwell' but not knocked out. Mid Jan, could not eat anything for TWO WEEKS! Things seem to be getting milder, and have stopped bothering to mask and glove. Hope all ok.

[Poggle]

My wife and me had it for a second time last month. Although we recovered I find I get tired easily. Since we're both considered vulnerable we're still masking, avoiding large crowded areas and eating in restaurants.

[FierceKitty]

I'll need to test tomorrow. Certainly exposed recently.

[Steve J]

Still avoiding busy areas and times of day, but not wearing a mask now, except at the Doctor's when picking up prescriptions etc. Our son is booked in for his next booster jab, which is good. Covid still going on around here and affecting school staff as kids are coming in with it but feeling fine.

[John Cook]

Living with it, rather like flu, these days.  Managed to avoid COVID so far but picked up a really nasty bug and chest infection after returning from Australia in February.  We were convinced we had COVID but no temperature and all the tests were negative.  Antibiotics sorted it out but it knocked the wind out of both of us and took nearly a month get over it.  Staff in my GP surgery have stopped wearing masks.  My GP told me "It's a waste of time unless you have it then a mask might help stop you spreading it, in which case you should stay at home anyway".  Nobody seemed to wear masks in Australia anymore, and they had one of the strictest lockdowns anywhere.  They weren't a requirement on the flight either and not many in evidence during the stop-over in Singapore.  Sixth COVID jab on Saturday.

[mmcv]

We had a pretty woeful winter of illness, seemed to be getting a cold, flu, tummy bug or similar every other week. I suspect at least one was COVID but hard to tell now and didn't seem much point in testing now it's not so different from any other flu. I even got "hand, foot and mouth" which I'd never even heard of until recently (it's different from the mad cow one!). Just seemed like we never had any time to recover (not helped by a baby waking up every couple of hours through the night, every night).

Also found that we had some raw sewage overflowing into our garden which might have been the cause of some of the bugs.   

Thankfully seems things are improving a bit, the sewage issue is hopefully fixed, the wee man is finally sleeping through the night so we're getting some rest and recovery time and we've not been sick in a few weeks now...   🤞

I've never known so much illness over such a short period, same for a lot of friends and colleagues too. Must just be a post-COVID surge of mixing and several years worth of illness hitting at once. That and having a kid, which introduces a whole new disease vector!

It's springtime now though, things are going to get better!

[FierceKitty]

I'll need to test tomorrow. Certainly exposed recently.

We're OK.

[paulr]

We're OK.

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hurrah!