Thanks Bob! Keeping warm won't be a problem since its 66 degrees here right now. Staying dry will be a problem though since its pouring rain right now.
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Yep same here on the rain. Not so bad right here but south eastern KY is hammered with flooding already going on.Thanks Bob! Keeping warm won't be a problem since its 66 degrees here right now. Staying dry will be a problem though since its pouring rain right now.
Wow! So far, I haven't read or heard anything about flooding here in NC. I did notice the creek I have to cross over to get to 501 is up some but nothing catastrophic yet.
Looks like some places in SE KY will get over 5 inches of rain in 2 days.
WOW! That's a lot of rain in a short time!
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Fucking garbage is legalized poison....
Same for sulfites -- the only reason for using sulfites is to preserve COLOR... and sufur dioxide can do the same damn thing!!!!!! But I don't think sulfur dioxide has the risk of causing asthmatics to have such a severe asthma attack they go into complete pulmonary collapse.
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YAAY!
Tacos!
Tacos!
Mr Juicy is going to make tacos tonight
Made soft taco's a few nights ago. Rascal and me feasted!
YUM!! I haven’t had tacos in a while unless you count the 2 I had from Toxic Hell a few weeks ago.Mr Juicy is going to make tacos tonight
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I will prolly eat mexican after my 6 mos dr appt tomorrow.
I have to go in hungry for bloodwork.
Just hope I do not catch the flu there.
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No shit - part of why I haven't gone to the drs to document this stupid vertigo problem - afraid I might leave worse!
taking a bottle of hand sanitizer in my pocket.
And having lysterine in the blazer.
And having lysterine in the blazer.
I got the flu too. Or should I say it got me? I've been so sick but hopefully tomorrow I will feel better.
It hit me Friday. Thank God my ex brother-in-law was around he came over and took care of me and made me some soup.
Sorry you are sick.
Andria getting better?
Hopefully my alien components in my DNA will protect me.
Mr Freeman is sick too. I don't know what's wrong with him. I just thank God that Tim's oming back over tomorrow to bring him to the vet.
Dogs can get the flu.
Yeah you really don't want this. It's fucking with my heart.
I've had enough aspirin and vinegar to thin my blood out the old ticker keeps on racing
Maybe I'm just going insane then
I sure do not want it.
I don't even want hangnails.
I don't even want hangnails.
Can't comment on that but they do offer doggie flu shots.
He's old but I'm not ready for him to go yet
He will likely be fine.
Omg I'm sorry for just being sa wimpress.I'm going to suck it up go to sleep again and I'm sure I'll be better tomorrow
Hang in there it is gonna suck for a few days, so just hang in there drink fluids, etc.
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As so will you
I hope you feel better soon!
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Tuesday will be 2 wks since I first noticed symptoms... I got up today feeling actually human for the first time in all that time, and the day stayed pretty good; I didn't nap all day, nor even lie down, and I managed to eat both a good breakfast and a reasonable dinner. Diarrhea was still a problem, but I think that which started as part of the flu just got worse because of the antibiotics; the good news is that although I'm still coughing up a LOT of crap, the lungs are gradually clearing, the appetite is mostly back, and I took the very last antibiotic today... so I hope that damn diarrhea is outta here. I even managed a load of laundry today, first useful thing I've done other than recuperate in 2 wks.
And 2 wks is actually not too bad for flu; the last really bad flu I had that really wiped me out was Jan 1997, and I was basically a prisoner of the couch for 3 solid weeks -- I was only 35 at the time, but I was a solid 2pk a day smoker, and even with the flu, I was still getting thru at least a pk a day.
I'm 56 now. If it's another 20 yrs till I got another bad flu, I might not survive it, so I'm definitely going to be getting flu shots every fall from now on. This shit has just SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No.. dramamine is dimenhydrinate. I take it every night as a sedative. Youi're thinking of the non-drowsy version of it.
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Sure glad you are doing better Andria!
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Same here buddy! When I was eating dinner, I observed to my husband that it sure was nice to have an appetite! Food actually tastes good when you're actually hungry! I didn't go totally without on any day of my illness, but there were a couple days of fluids-only, or only a few bites of this or that. Then trying to get back to eating, after you haven't been, for a while, is HARD -- just like after the appendectomy recuperation.
One thing I found really helpful... when that obnoxious smell set in, after I'd been sick about 5 days... I got some lavender essential oil... that made life a LOT more bearable, having something nice to smell instead of the odor of my infected lungs. Maybe that's just me, with my fucking bionic nose.
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As vertigo is caused by an inner ear problem NO WAY will I take a prescription drug for it and will only dry dramamine if it gets a lot worse
I'm trying a few natural therapies that are giving me varying degrees of success
When vertigo starts to affect me I lay on the bed with only my head hanging off the side. I turn my head to the right side, leave it there for a few minutes then turn it over and hang the left side for a few minutes. It usually helps. It's something about the crystals in your inner ear moving back to the proper place.
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Epley's maneuver - very effective when that is the cause of your inner ear imbalance they say
I don't have any antibiotics. Maybe I need to go back to the doctor. Last night was really rough. If it wasn't for those cough pills and cough drops and inhaler I don't know what would have happened.
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I actually had a bit of an appetite last night. But after I ate I felt worse.Same here buddy! When I was eating dinner, I observed to my husband that it sure was nice to have an appetite! Food actually tastes good when you're actually hungry! I didn't go totally without on any day of my illness, but there were a couple days of fluids-only, or only a few bites of this or that. Then trying to get back to eating, after you haven't been, for a while, is HARD -- just like after the appendectomy recuperation.
One thing I found really helpful... when that obnoxious smell set in, after I'd been sick about 5 days... I got some lavender essential oil... that made life a LOT more bearable, having something nice to smell instead of the odor of my infected lungs. Maybe that's just me, with my fucking bionic nose.
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You'd only need antibiotics if it turned into a bacterial infection; they won't help the flu one fucking iota. If you still feel just as bad or possibly worse after you've had the flu for a solid week, THEN you go to the doc and get antibiotics. Too bad you didn't go and get tamiflu, though; it shortened my husband's flu quite a bit, but needs to be started within 48 hrs of symptom onset.
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I wonder if ginger might help. It's more effective than dramamine on the nausea of motion sickness... but I don't know how effective it would be on the vertigo. Worth a try though, since it's harmless and inexpensive.
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Over the weekend, I was perusing some web pages I ran across devoted to my high school, including a Memoriam page... discovered a couple of names that I hadn't heard in probably 40 yrs, had no idea they had died, though they passedquite some ago -- 1982 and 2002 respectively. Quite a reality check to find one's peers are no longer among the living.
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Over the weekend, I was perusing some web pages I ran across devoted to my high school, including a Memoriam page... discovered a couple of names that I hadn't heard in probably 40 yrs, had no idea they had died, though they passedquite some ago -- 1982 and 2002 respectively. Quite a reality check to find one's peers are no longer among the living.
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Yeah, I lost my lifetime best friend (we met in first grade!) in 2011 -
I ran across a letter she wrote me a couple of months ago and I just burst into tears looking at it - and I'm not a tear prone person at all.