I’m glad you’re not in the hospital - take all your medicines to try to stop what you have, both you and Mrs. rightly. News tonight is at least one of those sick has H1N1, the very serious flu. Blood of those sick have been sent elsewhere for more analysis.
I just got on FR as the engineer got to my house so had to talk to him. I had him wash his hands with soap at the kitchen sink when he got here and told him we were eating grocery store food storage due to sickness in the town. He was happy to have canned beef stew and peach halves. I put a bit of mayonnaise in the center of every peach half and he thought that was strange. He found out it’s good with those two things together.
We won’t stop praying for you and wife, rightly, until you
are well.
I thank everyone for their concerns and for their prayers for my wife and myself.
I read the initial reports yesterday as they came available from Houston tv. This has all come across, at least to me, as alarmist reporting. When first reported they got the scare numbers out there with little detail or documentation. As the real information gets out there, It is NOT an epidemic or any sudden surge of flu cases. Houston tv managed to caused some degree of panic in the county before the real facts filtered out. The “mystery” disease is only a mystery during the time for the sample sent to CDC to come back with a positive ID. H1N1 is a serious flu, pig flu I think from 4 or 5 yrs ago, It is not time to panic or go off chasing tangents or barking at the moon. H1N1 is one of the flu’s that in included in this year’s flu shots, so let the calming begin. Diligent concern on the part of hospital staff and county health officials, along with the CDC will get to the truth of the matter concerning the threat to Montgomery County residents. Houston tv, maybe they should stick to traffic news and talk radio, or whatever it is they are famous for, and loose their panic button.
I have been a caregiver to two 87yo parents at a time of a real respiratory epidemic in 2000. Five major hospitals, all full to overflowing with seriously ill people. Two beds crammed into private rooms, hallways lined with beds of sick people, ER stacking patients anywhere they could till rooms became available. ER’s were overflowing the waiting rooms and parents being turned away with sick children in their arms. I had my dad on the fourth floor and my mom on the first, and spent my day running from one to the other and back. Talking to DRs, pushing elevator buttons, turning door knobs, touching stuff in the hospital. I spent two weeks there and diligently washed my hands with my own bio soap and alcohol after every marginal contact, and never got sick. That’s a respirtory epidemic. Mongomery County is not, at this point, anyway.
That mega-dose steroid shot kept me in sweats till 1am. I finally got to sleep after that. I woke up this morning choking and hacking all that crud loose in my lungs. Very little wheeze now.
Carol woke up at 5:30am pouring sweat from her steroid pills. She stayed home, is very sore and painful from the heavy coughing and strain on ribs and chest/back muscles.
We are in recovery mode today.
Thanks for your prayers, that really means a lot to us.