Stay safe, chaps

[RogerS]

There’s a ‘quad-demic’ of Covid, flu, RSV and norovirus.


Enter smug mode. Rog, who’s had the jabs for the lot .

 

[AJB Temple]

We don't have those down south.

Haven't had RSV jab unless they bundle it in somehow - I think you have to be over 75.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

You can add pneumonia to that shopping list Rog. Low level, minor symptoms, but definite lung impairment. DAMHIKT.

 

[RogerS]

We don't have those down south.

Haven't had RSV jab unless they bundle it in somehow - I think you have to be over 75.

You're right, Adrian. My apologies to the youngsters on the forum

 

[Phil Pascoe]

You can add pneumonia to that shopping list Rog. Low level, minor symptoms, but definite lung impairment. DAMHIKT.

I was working and felt really unwell, so I knocked off and went to a drop in clinic (sadly now closed) where I saw a doctor I knew slightly. He saw me doubled over the desk and got me in quickly. I said I was at work and didn't feel very well. You shouldn't have been walking let alone working, you've pneumonia, he said, quickly adding even better - double pneumonia. He gave me antibiotics and sent me to see my own GP. A few weeks later I was at work and an old lady said are you better now, dear? I heard you had pneumonia? Yes, I said, I'm fine now. You know the best thing about that? she asked. No, what's that? Next time you get it you'll know exactly what you've got.
Roll on twelve months to the week. I get it again, I phone the GP and he asks what the problem is. I've got pneumonia, I said. What makes you think that? I've had pneumonia before. You've pneumonia, he said, come in quickly. I saw him and told him what the old lady had said. He laughed and said unfortunately, she was right. If you've had it once you're quite likely to get it again. I've been jabbed since, fortunately any damage to the lungs seems to have been avoided.

 

[Cabinetman]

I was working and felt really unwell, so I knocked off and went to a drop in clinic (sadly now closed) where I saw a doctor I knew slightly. He saw me doubled over the desk and got me in quickly. I said I was at work and didn't feel very well. You shouldn't have been walking left alone working, you've pneumonia, he said, quickly adding even better - double pneumonia. He gave me antibiotics and sent me to see my own GP. A few weeks later I was at work and an old lady said are you better now, dear? I heard you had pneumonia? Yes, I said, I'm fine now. You know the best thing about that? she asked. No, what's that? Next time you get it you'll know exactly what you've got.
Roll on twelve months to the week. I get it again, I phone the GP and he asks what the problem is. I've got pneumonia, I said. What makes you think that? I've had pneumonia before. You've pneumonia, he said, come in quickly. I saw him and told him what the old lady had said. He laughed and said unfortunately, she was right. If you've had it once you're quite likely to get it again. I've been jabbed since, fortunately any damage to the lungs seems to have been avoided.

Yes it’s not something to mess with, I was told that a guide is that if you’re coughing up lumps that’s pneumonia.
Certainly not something you can go to work with, you must have felt really bad!

 

[Steve Maskery]

Wasn't it pneumonia which used to be called "the old man's friend"?
Fortunately it is no longer a death sentence.

 

[Blackswanwood]

Fortunately it is no longer a death sentence.

Unfortunately that may not remain the case in the not too distant future. Overuse of antibiotics is leading to them being ineffective.

 

[Phil]

We had covid last year August and I am still convinced that it lingers on.

For the past 3 to 4 weeks a sinus, nose, throat and cough.
Cannot believe the amount of cr-p being expelled from the nose and chest.

Added to this it is 37c, dry, dust, pollen, no sign of rain.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Here, in draughty, soaking ,Britannia Phil, the doctors quote an average recovery time from Covid as 12 weeks. I've had it twice, and that stat is spot on. There is also a mountain of unexplored and unresearched epidemiology around C-19 that we are rapidly realising may actually be the tip of an iceberg of long term symptoms/physiological impairment. Nice.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My neighbour and his workmate have just had a dose of covid - it's a German variety, apparently.
I got in 2022, I had a mild cold for four days. I passed it to my 20 y. o. lad and in four days it killed him.