Don't mind the hot body

Special K: Reading Twitter and the news…the R's are doing a full push to "reopen America for business" next week. Circa April 1.

b1-66er: I thought you'd given Twitter a rest. 

You've decided a still mind isn't interesting enough,  I guess.

K: Dammit, I need to get away from it and I'm flailing.

b1: Maybe if you break your Twitter habit, you break your food habit. 

K: Food habit is doing great though!

b1: Save your body

Ruin your mind

(SM)

K: Oy.

OK. Twitter is going away. 10 minutes x 2 times a day for starters.

b1: That's actually an interesting question...

Body or mind.

     Ruin one. 

Your choice. 

<ed: no response. >

Oh, there b1 goes AGAIN

Cap'n Happy: I think I had COVID in Jan. I came down with something. I kept saying this isn't a cold, and it isn't the flu. I rarely get sick. I typically only get a cold about once every 2 years, and even then it's mild. I haven't had a flu in nearly 20 years. Something hit me in Jan that was weird. I got a pounding headache that put me on my back for 3 days. On the 2nd day I said this is getting serious, and could become pneumonia. If I don't feel better by tomorrow I need to see a doctor. It made me lose my appetite and feel nauseous for about a week. I barely ate and had to force even the smallest bytes of food. By the 2nd week I had a respiratory infection. That's something I can't even remember having for 30 years. I was hacking up some nasty stuff. It started out clear and thick. Then yellow, and then green. After about 10 days it went clear again, but that was about 2 weeks altogether. I also lost my voice for about 5 days, and after that I was horse for another 5. All that time I did NOT have a sore throat. Took about 5-6 weeks to recover, where I felt normal again. Looking back, it was corona. I ask my gf, who teaches a classroom of 1st and 2nd graders if any of her kids were sick. She said over the holidays half the kids were out sick, and it continued for several weeks. I asked if any of them were Chinese. She said no, but then remembered one of the sick kids had a father that got sick after a business trip to China. So, I'm pretty sure I had it before people knew what this was. Like I said, it was really weird. I knew it was a virus but I was certain it wasn't a flu.

b1-66er:

Betting Cv instead of flu is suspect. 1Could be, but I'd bet money it's not, it'll be easy enough to test once that's more widely available.

Were you running a temperature?

CH: I didn't have a fever, but I did have night sweats. I'd wake up soaked and dripping.

b1: I'm pretty sure that puts you out by default. 

It'll be easy enough to find out in a couple months. 

If so,  you'll also be resistive when as it sweeps through thr Bay.

Did you get a flu shot this year?

CH: I've never had one

b1: Flu is far more common. Even now. 

I'm super familiar with, "well, it could be..."

It took three years to diagnose my MS. 

You couldn't have done it with a website and guessing. 

Wish it wasn't. I would've gladly taken an immediate diagnosis.

Three years is a long l-o-n-g time as it's passing. 

Imagine what you had. 

Now imagine it lingering to 2023.

That's what I had. 

Maybe I had Cv early. 

I guess you could go more extreme and say,  now imagine having  some side impact of what you had that never gets cured.  

That's what HAVE. 

For the rest of my life. 

I know,  I know "why can't you let this whole MS thing go? EVERYTHING isn't all MS. "

It is if you're me. 

In case you missed it: for the rest of my life. Incurable. 

You better believe I get a flu shot. 

<ed: no response of any kind. It's not fun when people aren't playing properly in the sandbox. >