Posted on 12/13/2013 12:25:11 PM PST by greeneyes
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Our neighborhood has a private group on Facebook, and it seems that the schools are full of flu, and this other disease. It’s really going crazy around here. I had fevers all day Fri, and laid in all day saturday with Carol. Mussenex is keeping us breathing, but we are very weak and cant eat. Tomorrow, Wed, will be a week. I kept the puppy today a I napped more than she did.
God bless you and Merry Christmas, too! I’m printing it and putting it in gardening folder. (Old laptop crashed earlier this year and I can’t find the thumb drive with the backups.) (((Hugs)))
Waded through NIH and DSMS materials last night and it appears that I should pursue this plastic peanut business. They have information on inhalation, but not certain if that’s for a manufacturing facility. Will keep looking and update y’all.
Beautiful eggplants! Thanks for posting!
I thought the white things in purchased garden soil was perlite or something. Never read what it contains. Must do that.
Nepeta, I’ve only taken four chemistry courses in my life. Does this mean I should stop the research? You sound like you know what you’re doing as opposed to me.
Hope you and yours get well soon.
Thanks. There is a mystery bug going around here that has killed 4 people, with 4 very sick survivors.
You will read on this thread that I have decided not to go to Kroger grocery store. I was going to get food for the engineer as he will be here tomorrow evening or on Friday or both. I am well but I don't know what is killing these people so I'm not leaving my house. I will feed the engineer grocery stored food. There are big cans of beef stew and chicken/dumpling soup, plus I have Bertolli Italian meat sauce in glass jars and thin spaghetti stored in the freezer to cook.
It is his wife, my sister-in-law, who won't eat anything that comes out of a can. I wish she were here so she would have to choose to eat food that came out of a can or risk her life to go to a restaurant or grocery store. She is basically a scared puppy if anything happens (just went nuts one time when she was here, it was night, and power went off - now she keeps one of my flashlights with her at night afraid power will go off again.) If she thinks she might get sick if she leaves the house, she is staying in the house.
rightly, if you can when you leave the doctor's office, let us know if you are home. It is possible the doctor may put both of you in the hospital. Try to get word to us if they do put you in hospital.
Here is today's thread about the people in our county dying:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3102920/posts?page=1
:-D
I think you’ll have fun with it! Please keep us posted if you do it!
Oh it was! I have a little bit of it left over and am looking forward to hotting it up!
I read this A.M. that the people who contracted it tested negative for flu, whatever that means (H. influenzae and not a virus?). We had a nasty thing last Christmas through New Year’s (I actually had to use Asthmanefrin because I was moving so little air) and I wonder if this is the same thing.
The containers have holes in them for water to drain, so why do I need rocks????”
Our 60 containers sit on wooden decks so I put cut pieces of stainless steel screen and place over the holes to prevent soil from leaking out. I bought the SS screen at our nearby Ace Hardware
Did you go to the doctor this A.M.? If so, what did he/she think it was?
At 8am we could not get an appointment for both of us to see a dr at the same time at our new dr or our old one. We went to the ER since my wife was so bad off and spent the day there. We got swabbed out, EKG’ed, bled, Xrayed, shot w/steroids, and breathing treatments.
Thank you Lord, for small favors. Neither of us has the flu. They determined my wife to have severe bronchitis and myself to have asthma attack. I have very mild asthma, never needed any treatment or anything. I think my ever present wheezing caused them to look longer and deeper. They watched me for a few hours debating whether to admit me on a caution for possible pneumonia. A mega shot of steroids and an additional breathing treatment and a little improvement caused them to discharge me. I wasn’t gunna stay anyway. They just had the figure it out on their own.
We left about 5pm with a handfull of scripts for antibiotics and steroids, and after the drugstore circus and a stop for supper, we made it home.
Thank you for your prayers and concerns.
Thanks for letting us know.
Prayers going up for my Brother and Sister in Christ . . . God be with you both.
The dr said he looked at 18 respiratory related people all day, as of 4pm, and had not had a positive for flu. It is the ideal season for breathing troubles from the weakest of people, children and seniors, and weakened immune systems. In Triage they put a possible flu tag on me after an exam. Further testing dispelled that notion.
The staff is less than happy with Houston tv’s alarmist report. The numbers just don’t back up the story. When we got there, there was nobody in the ER waiting to be seen, none; They wheeled us right in and went to work.
After 3 trips to the ER at this hospital in recent months, I am 100% pleased with them and have complete confidence in the staff, and I told them so as I was leaving.
The schools here are full of all kinds of sickness right now. We have a neighborhood only group on FB, and the list of things the kids have is immense, even hoof, hand and mouth, or something like that. Only a few have flu, the rest, other things. It’s that time of year, conditions are perfect for respiratory distress; cold, rain, cloudy, sunny, repeat... That constant swinging from good, bad worse.
That’s my report from the frontlines in Monkey County.
Thank you for the report, r_d; prayers following accordingly. This week has been a bear for FReepers.
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