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Post by Ness on Jan 7, 2021 19:08:23 GMT
So only ER if corona-chan reaches her final form?
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Post by c on Jan 7, 2021 20:03:14 GMT
Really? They don't consider pneumonia an imminent risk of death. What a fucked up ideology that is. Anyway, hope she pulls through c . It's not, unless you are having trouble breathing. With antibiotics most people can fight off pneumonia, it's only those whose health is already seriously compromised who struggle. All the best for your Mom c , it's worse watching a loved one struggle, than going though it yourself. Her doctor would not prescribe antibiotics either. She was told to drink plenty of water and rest. She wanted to go to get the medication Trump, Rudy and others took and thought the ER would give it to her. She did not believe me when I told her it was not for us commoners.
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Post by System on Jan 8, 2021 4:28:19 GMT
They really should give supermarkets a heads up before they annnounce lockdowns. Only a 3 day lockdown in Brisbane and scenes of panic buying as if it will go for 5 years.
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Post by 🤯 on Jan 8, 2021 5:50:26 GMT
They really should give supermarkets a heads up before they annnounce lockdowns. Only a 3 day lockdown in Brisbane and scenes of panic buying as if it will go for 5 years. If only the public knew not to panic after a year of this shit...
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Post by c on Jan 9, 2021 18:33:10 GMT
Mom is starting to feel better. She was severely dehydrated but finally got fluids into her and she is still pretty sick but not as sick and stopped puking. I still have extremely mild symptoms of body aches, fatigue and headaches.
There is a belief that the US spread of COVID is due to it mutating here to spread faster. Some symptom changes in this new version with the nausea side becoming more pronounced. If this is true, this is a slightly deader form as well then.
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Post by mikec on Jan 11, 2021 20:36:11 GMT
ER will not take my mom unless she is in imminent risk of death because their quarantine wards are full and it is too risky to treat regular COVID cases there. Good times with US healthcare. Really? They don't consider pneumonia an imminent risk of death. What a fucked up ideology that is. Anyway, hope she pulls through c. My mom got same treatment with double-lung pneumonia from covid, an overnight of fluid because she was dehydrated and sent home. iNCY is right, pneumonia in and of itself isn’t an imminent risk of death until you get to a state where you’re having significant breathing issues.
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Post by c on Jan 11, 2021 20:40:44 GMT
That pisses me off so much. I had non-Covid double-lung pneumonia once and I seriously was not sure if I went to sleep if I would wake up again. I was 30 at the time. Being 50+ I cannot imagine how much worse it would have been. Then you add in COVID. These people should be in beds under observation not sent home to fend for themselves.
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Post by iNCY on Jan 11, 2021 21:30:43 GMT
That pisses me off so much. I had non-Covid double-lung pneumonia once and I seriously was not sure if I went to sleep if I would wake up again. I was 30 at the time. Being 50+ I cannot imagine how much worse it would have been. Then you add in COVID. These people should be in beds under observation not sent home to fend for themselves. I understand the sentiment, but Covid presents no greater risk than the fact is causes pneumonia. The other risks of covid are all knock on effects of pneumonia and an infection taking root in the lungs. My Dad nearly died of sepsis but it was the infection that got him there. All pneumonia is not created equal, the more infection the harder to breathe, there is also no treatment apart from antibiotics and keeping the body as well as possible while the infection runs its course. All the best with your Mom pduh,
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Post by iron maiden on Jan 11, 2021 21:36:22 GMT
Well that's like saying Cancer isn't the true killer. My dad had lung cancer, but TECHNICALLY it wasn't lung cancer that killed him DIRECTLY. He caught a cold which turned into pneumonia because his immune system was compromised due to having cancer. Same thing with COVID.
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Post by c on Jan 11, 2021 21:36:29 GMT
COVID pneumonia is worse than bacterial pneumonia as COVID pneumonia also attacks the alveoli with pus and causes ARDS. It also attacks blood cells triggering immune system reactions and attacks red blood cells, throwing clots, triggering all of the infarctions, stroke, heart attack, embolism ect.
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Post by Ness on Jan 11, 2021 23:40:27 GMT
c - how is it you have a general knowledge about literally everything?
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Post by Gyro LC on Jan 11, 2021 23:44:24 GMT
Well that's like saying Cancer isn't the true killer. My dad had lung cancer, but TECHNICALLY it wasn't lung cancer that killed him DIRECTLY. He caught a cold which turned into pneumonia because his immune system was compromised due to having cancer. Same thing with COVID. It's not the fall that kills you, it's the ground.
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Post by c on Jan 11, 2021 23:46:56 GMT
Reading. A lot. If something interests me I read a book about it and read about a book every two to three days.
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Post by @admin on Jan 11, 2021 23:58:14 GMT
Reading. A lot. If something interests me I read a book about it and read about a book every two to three days. brutal!
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Post by c on Jan 12, 2021 0:03:18 GMT
More like I have no life
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Post by Ness on Jan 12, 2021 0:08:53 GMT
More like I have no life
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Post by c on Jan 12, 2021 0:09:38 GMT
New doctor next week, hopefully I get stimulants back so I can get out of bed again
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Post by Michinokudriver on Jan 12, 2021 1:30:44 GMT
More like I have no life Does there need to be a socially distanced version of that meme?
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Post by c on Jan 12, 2021 1:38:34 GMT
No because we never leave the house <.<
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Post by iNCY on Jan 12, 2021 2:00:24 GMT
Well that's like saying Cancer isn't the true killer. My dad had lung cancer, but TECHNICALLY it wasn't lung cancer that killed him DIRECTLY. He caught a cold which turned into pneumonia because his immune system was compromised due to having cancer. Same thing with COVID. It's not the same thing... I'm saying Pneumonia is bad but having Covid and pneumonia is the same as any other viral pneumonia. It's just that the rate of pneumonia with Covid is higher than some other viruses, but any infection in the lungs is not good.
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Post by iNCY on Jan 12, 2021 2:01:30 GMT
COVID pneumonia is worse than bacterial pneumonia as COVID pneumonia also attacks the alveoli with pus and causes ARDS. It also attacks blood cells triggering immune system reactions and attacks red blood cells, throwing clots, triggering all of the infarctions, stroke, heart attack, embolism ect. Aren't you just talking about the difference between bacterial and viral pneumonia?
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Post by c on Jan 12, 2021 2:20:37 GMT
Viral is a big field and I literally do not know anything about non-COVID viral pneumonia. But COVID is far nastier than just normal pneumonia. I had it twice, the double lung time pneumonia, it lasted six weeks and I had to use a nebulizer for three weeks to get better. But it still not effect me the way COVID hit you. COVID is so dangerous as that pneumonia is very deadly.
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Post by c on Jan 13, 2021 20:38:12 GMT
Well COVID claimed my grandpa. He was weakened from stroke and COVID killed him in under a week. He had the stroke three weeks ago, so maybe things were for the best this way.
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Post by iron maiden on Jan 13, 2021 20:53:42 GMT
I'm very sorry for your loss, c. Stroke or not, it doesn't make it easier to lose a loved one. It's shocking to me down there that so many seem to be treating it rather lightly. Are you not still losing 3-4K people a day? My side gig is in home parties, so up here in Canada we've taken to virtual parties and sales but down in the US, things are business as usual. No masks, no social distancing. It's odd to me.
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Post by Gyro LC on Jan 14, 2021 17:20:58 GMT
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Post by Jake on Jan 14, 2021 18:52:19 GMT
Out of 4 family members that have been taken into ICCU care for Covid.
1 has died 2 have been discharged from hospital 1 is currently on a ventilator
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Post by c on Jan 14, 2021 19:24:28 GMT
The mirror of my family basically. Feel for you Jake.
My mom is finally moving around again and eating after I bullied her into drinking ensure yesterday. Given my family is coming up to raid my Grandpa's possessions like the pack of vultures they are she is trying to get well enough to take some items before the rest of the things he owned ends up pawn shops.
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Post by iNCY on Jan 14, 2021 19:29:04 GMT
Well COVID claimed my grandpa. He was weakened from stroke and COVID killed him in under a week. He had the stroke three weeks ago, so maybe things were for the best this way. Very sorry for your loss mate.
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Post by c on Jan 14, 2021 19:44:34 GMT
We were not close and I had another grandfather go through a stroke that affected his cognition and living at 80 post stroke is no way to live. You are alive, but in a state in of confusion with little control of your life. COVID basically just ended his suffering. He was ready to pass on.
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Post by Jake on Jan 14, 2021 20:34:09 GMT
The mirror of my family basically. Feel for you Jake. My mom is finally moving around again and eating after I bullied her into drinking ensure yesterday. Given my family is coming up to raid my Grandpa's possessions like the pack of vultures they are she is trying to get well enough to take some items before the rest of the things he owned ends up pawn shops. I am so incredibly sorry for your loss, C. My family is a big, big family and of course it isn't pleasant when you're hearing of a passing, with myself not being of immediate family though, I won't be going to the funeral in person, instead watching it over a stream.....which will be a first.
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