Posted on 01/18/2008 4:54:24 PM PST by WFTR
Welcome to the Weekend Singles Thread
Okay, here's the story. I'm sick, and I'm grumpy. We don't have a planned topic for tonight, so I'm going to try to make a "good" from two "bads" or a "right" from two "wrongs."
I arrived home from Christmas vacation on the 29th of December with a sore throat. I spent the 30th, the 31st, and the 1st trying to get better but only got worse. I worked on the 2nd and 3rd. I was off the 4th through the 6th and actually got better. I wasn't 100%, but I was close. I was ready to start my new year. Last Friday, I was starting to feel a little bad again. I went to Wal-Mart to get drugs and orange juice. My orange tree gave me a nice crop this year. I shared some with my folks, but I'm glad that I saved a good supply for myself. They've been helpful. I spent last weekend trying to rest, get plenty of fluids, stay warm, and get healthy. I only got worse.
On Monday, I missed my first day of work. On Tuesday, I missed another. On Wednesday, I felt pressured to get back to work, so I went in the rain. I never made it to my office. I started coughing as someone driving through the plant stopped to offer a ride. The cold, wet day was too much for me, and I couldn't get any air. I ended up in the nurse's office for about an hour. They finally took me to my car, and I was okay to drive home. I haven't tried to return.
Today, I saw a doctor, and he gave me drugs. He gave me pills to kill any bacteria that could be causing the problem and an inhaler to reduce my congestion.
I've been FReeping a bit because I'm so concerned about the presidential race, but my head isn't working well. I'm not saying things as well as I'd like. I'm also running to be a delegate to our state convention. The state convention will determine which candidate really gets Louisiana's delegates. Otherwise, I've watched more Law and Order than I can stand. I haven't taken a walk in over two weeks. I don't look like a guy addicted to walking, but not being able to take a walk is making me crazy.
Now that you know the situation, here's what we'll do. I invite everyone to share their home remedies for colds, flus, stomach ailments, and anything else that they have in mind. Let's hear about everything from the standard chicken soup to those old herbalist cures that the mountain people knew in past generations. I may not get around to using this information, but maybe we can have some fun and exchange some folklore.
That’s an interesting thought. Does he take the garlic only when he feels a sickness coming or does he take garlic at all times? If he’s taking the garlic always, maybe garlic would boost my immune system.
I remember when I lived in Louisville, Kentucky and used to drive home to East Tennessee for holidays. I'd always leave after work on whatever day preceded the holiday and not arrive home until about midnight. At that time, I listened mostly to gospel music, but if I was tired of my tapes and couldn't find a gospel station on FM, I'd scan the AM dial. At night, I'd get all kinds of stations. I mostly remember trips in the winter when darkness would come quickly. I'd be driving for home around seven o'clock eastern time, but I'd sometimes catch a Chicago station that was still giving traffic reports. The Chicago stations have refined the whole thing to the extent that they seem to be talking in code to anyone unfamiliar with how their traffic reports are given. I had no idea what they were saying, but I always found listening to be interesting for a little bit. Catching hockey games from New York or Boston was always interesting as well. Again, there wasn't the same sense of strangeness that one gets from the after midnight talk show people, but the whole experience of driving in the darkness and hearing those strange stations from far away was interesting.
Bill
I suspect that a monogamous sexual relationship would be much more pleasant that picking one's nose and eating the boogers.
I always remember that God said, "It is not good for man to be alone." That quote didn't come from a secular psychologist, Playboy magazine, or a lukewarm, backslid, social gospel preaching pastor. I don't know whether the study was conducted well or whether the researchers simply had another agenda. I do lean towards the belief that most people are intended to have partners. If that belief is true, then I can believe that most people are going to be healthier in that marriage relationship than they would be either being celibate or having multiple partners. Of course, one must still exercise wisdom in choosing a partner and choosing the time to enter that relationship. I believe that my immune system would have been stronger if I had found the right person.
I don't know whether my nephew gave me a cold. He was fighting something when I visited, but my dad caught something as well. I've heard people talk about their children bringing home all kinds of things.
Actually, the bathroom thing shouldn't be all that connected to colds. The germs that cause respiratory infections have nothing to do with going to the bathroom. I'm pretty picky about washing my hands, but when I do, I'm worried about a different set of germs.
It's funny, but I use hand sanitizer a great deal when dealing with my reptiles. When all is said and done, there's very little that I can catch from them. Humans and reptiles don't respond to the same bacteria or viruses, so they can't pass much to me. I should worry more about hand sanitization when dealing with other people.
I've heard that most respiratory bugs actually enter our bodies through our ears. The article that made that claim suggested dripping a little hydrogen peroxide into the ears every day during the cold and flu season.
Bill
I’m single, not a a monk. ;-)
I do believe that children carry more colds than adults. They are constantly in contact with others -- in school -- and their immune systems are often being introduced to new germs for the first time and so have not yet developed immunity. As we grow to adulthood, we develop more and more immunities.
Travelling definitely puts one in contact with new organisms, with the likelihood that there are some we haven't yet developed immunities to. I addition, today's travel often involves being closed in (as in an airplane) with numbers of strangers, thus exposure to new organisms.
As it happens, I'll be getting on an airplane this week, with a compromised immune system due to chemotherapy. I'll be carrying surgical masks as a precaution.
I would echo that, snugs. Additionally, my daughter, who likes Sunny D, and is also trying to lose weight, read the ingredients list, and noted that the second highest ingredient is added sugar.
I have had that, but it began after esophageal surgery. It's been six months, now, and the surgeon is concerned. I also have had anemia for more than a year now. I took a video barium swallow, but don't have the results yet.
... Myth Busters usually makes for some good recreational/lazy watching. Or perhaps Jeeves and Wooster.
I, too, watch Mythbusters, Deadliest Catch, etc. -- as you say, "lazy watching." But I would love some Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. P.G. Wodehouse has long been one of my favorites. Where do you find them?
Colds aren't the only thing contagious. I attended a house party, and went to the bathroom. When I lifted the seat, it was obvious that someone in the house had (as my Mother used to call it) "the dire rear." Washing didn't help. I wound up in the hospital for five days due to dehydration.
1: Drink lots of water. It helps to flush out the stone.
2: Get a urine strainer to capture the stone. You'll also need to either urinate through the strainer or urinate into a container and then pour it through the strainer. If you see something that looks like a grain of sand, save it in a container and take it to your PCP or a urologist for analysis.
The best weapons against kidney stone-related pain are dilaudid and toradol. Awesome stuff.
When all else fails, come to the ER. Gunner
But he didn't say that books are the ONLY sure friends!
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Good luck on your trip. I hated air travel and have stopped taking air trips. The masks are a good idea, but I wonder whether security people are going to find an excuse to give you grief about them.
My first husband finally started watching and after a while, I started calling him Jerrry and he started calling me Elaine. Even our sons get it.
You have to understand that it is a "show about nothing" and that they pretty much show us the quirkiness of the variety of personalitied that people posess through little "nothing" funny situations.
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