Taste is always something you’ve had, old sport.
Pip pip, cheerio, wot wot.
That’s basically what I had, except everything but the fever lasted for almost 2 weeks.
The number has just been updated…and it’s 44. Of 70.
3 years ago!
Same here. Doc called it a rhinovirus and put me on a blister pack of prednisone.
The extended fever is a feature of COVID19.
It seems that every symptom and every combination of symptoms, however mild or severe, is a feature of Covid 19. Until there is widespread antibody testing, these are all uneducated guesses.
In case I wasn’t clear initially, I don’t think I had COVID19. But there was something nasty going around back at the end of 2019, and I’ve seen a bunch of wild ass speculation that it was.
I get it; I’ve been doing the same thing with something passing through our house in late February.
There is an approved antibody test now. It’s anyone’s guess as to what they will do with it, though.
Yes, it seems like it would be a supremely useful tool in this crisis, but we all know that it will be limited in supply, and likely wasted in ways that provide marginal public utility.
Just as there are the quick Covid 19 positive tests now, Trump wants to send them to rural areas of the South. Sure, those areas need them, as do a shitload of other areas, but is that the best bang for the buck when we have a limited supply? Hardly, but we know those incompetents will fuck this up like they fuck every thing up.
Bottom line is that they are incapable of seeing the use of limited resources through the lens of a public health expert, but only through the eyes of what helps me, my pocketbook or my friends and their pocketbooks.
my daughter was sick for several weeks and ended up with a cough even codine would not lick
I thought I had mono for three months. Turns out I was just really bored.
There was a nasty flu strain that was not affected by the vaccine. I had it in early December (and gave it to batgirl and one of the kids). The kid tested positive for the flu. The adults didn’t bother seeking treatment. But it laid all of us on our ass for over a week.
Hell, I even thought I was dead, until I found out that it was just that I was in Nebraska.
Nebraska’s purgatory. Oklahoma’s hell.
It’s 2020. You should at least upgrade to stereo.
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I tested negative for the flu.
It was very similar to the typical cycle I go through when allergy season starts, though.
Snotty/coughing/sniffly. Progresses to hard coughing and multicolored snot. Progresses to lungs full of crap. Usually I see the doc and antibiotics knock it out in 3-4 days. This time I saw the doc, followed the same treatment as usual, and it persisted for over a week, as I gradually got better.
The reason I went to the doc instead of just riding it out with OTCs was I had a 102 fever when I woke up about 6 days in, and said that if it didn’t break that day I was going in for a professional look-see.