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I felt horrible at work, like weak as a kitten. I managed to walk over and request that I get the covid rapid test. I came up positive. Everything tastes awful. I have had chest congestion for a few days. No fever yet. Nausea and diarrhea. I have lost. The ability to make complete sentences.

Fuck I'm sorry, that's a bitch. Is the presumption going to be work-acquired, and if so will that help you with workers comp or whatever?

Hope you're feeling better soon.

I wish you a Speedy recovery I know the wife fears infecting us constantly.

That's really a kick in the ass and it pisses me off. Most people get something like a gold watch when they retire. Your employer should send you to Walter Reed hospital for the Trump treatment.

I hope you get through this quickly.

OMG, so sorry to hear it, @w! Wishing you the speediest of recoveries.

Oh shoot. It IS a bummer, but most folks get over it very easily. (Not me.) Hopefully you will have a very light case like Mrs. Mc. If they keep you at the hospital, be sure they pay you overtime. They did request that you stick around after all.

TPFKA@W wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:09 am

I felt horrible at work, like weak as a kitten. I managed to walk over and request that I get the covid rapid test. I came up positive. Everything tastes awful. I have had chest congestion for a few days. No fever yet. Nausea and diarrhea. I have lost. The ability to make complete sentences.

Please get well and be ok, don’t give up; I will be praying for you.

Joining with all others in wishing you a recovery, speedy if possible but more likely you're in for an unpleasant week or three. We survived it, despite age and co-morbids. Damn it, it WAS like a really bad 'flu but harder to shake off (I'm grateful for it being no worse). Never had fever - that doesn't seem to be a real symptom? (Don't know why all these temperature checks every time we enter a building - evidently we had the thing a while before getting tested but not once had elevated temps)

Obvs you'll use an oximeter every hour or so. Our thoughts are with you.

Get well @W; one thing I will suggest is Mucinex for the congestion and cough; it was the only thing that worked when I had it in March (and I got the idea from an internet posting) . Also (and as nurse I am sure you know this) keep hydrated; the diarrhea is the worst I ever had; and the taste being off doesn't make drinking even water very easy. I also used a pulse oximeter to monitor oxygen levels and did a lot of breathing exercises during the course of the disease. Take care.

Get better, @W.  I know we've butted heads a few times but in the words of John Donne,

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind... "

Not to mention that I don't know if I could handle losing another acquaintance/argument partner so soon.

I also find it highly telling that BSG has not yet been able to climb down off her high horse long enough to eat her previous words — although I do see that she has at least deleted them from her sig line.

-"BB"-

Get well soon @W!

What everybody says, @W. At times like this I wish I did pray: at least I'd feel that I was doing something useful.

Oh that stinks. I hope you get well quickly, with minimal aches and pains. Do those breathing exercises and get outside in the sun!

Hard lines old bird, that's a sod. Get well soon, we hope you make a speedy recovery. (Hen sends her best wishes...)

Wishing you a speedy recovery here with all motorcycle ears from Xena to you

Damn! Get well quickly and without aftereffects!

Hope you are better soon, @W, so sorry to hear about this.

I am very achy and a bit feverish and chilling today. I had flu once years ago, and double pneumonia ones. This is pretty much what I felt like those times. I was able to eat a bowl of cocoa pebbles last night. It's my favorite but I could not taste them. I stuffed them down though, you have to keep your strength up.

My poor husband is so sick. He is off getting a covid test and seeing our MD. He got a UTI with it, and just recovered from shingles. Poor guy, I brought him viral plague.

No wishes here for anyone to suffer with Covid19, not even John Mitchell.

The best revenge is a long life. @W, I request that you live to see it true.

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I hope you recover quickly, with minimal or no long-term effects. My sister is a (now-retired) RN, so I know how much you guys need and deserve a happy and (relatively) stress-free retirement. Get well soon and get back to grandma-ing...and best wishes to the hubby too.