Just right for Christmas

This year has been rubbish and it looks like it will continue like that until the end.

There's been a horrible cold/flu everyone is catching. It lasts for weeks and everyone is getting this same dry barking cough that just won't go away. . Nearly everyone I know has it.

My wife came home from work Friday feeling really ill. Had to rush to the doctor as really bad asthma and coughing. Her temperature was 38.7. She's on about 5 different drugs. Then Saturday afternoon Tom said he wasn't feeling great. That night his temperature was 37.8 and he's not wanted to eat anything.

Now I've developed the same and am off work with a chest infection and having to take steroids and antibiotics. And my doctor has changed my asthma medication too.

And we just heard some of our friends have Covid.

So it's going to be a great Christmas for everyone. My parents are meant to be coming over Christmas day but they are worried about catching whatever we have as they are both getting old and have their own health conditions.

Just hoping what we have cleared up in time. Last year we were meant to go to my parents on the 28th for my birthday, but my wife came down with Covid on Boxing day, so my birthday was cancelled.

I'm getting the feeling Christmas is becoming jinxed.

I hope everyone else is feeling ok and has a great sickness free Christmas.

I had Covid 19 after Christmas 2021, and I had some weird infection at the end of August, where I had vomiting, diarrhoea, etc, but I've no idea what caused that. At the moment, I'm fine.

That definitely sounds awful. We are fine at the moment, and so far we also didn't have Covid yet, at least not that I know of, besides my headaches in London, which were strange, but 2 straight tests were negative although no PCR.

We're staying home this year for XMas and we're going to my parents, usually we change every year, once Finland then home, but the last 3 years we have been to Finland thus we stay here this year.

Yesterday we came home from a 4 day trip to the Champagne and the last day both of us felt a bit tired and thought we might get a flu, but the day after everything was fine again. Hopefully it'll stay like that.

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Originally Posted by Stephen Coates

I had Covid 19 after Christmas 2021, and I had some weird infection at the end of August, where I had vomiting, diarrhoea, etc, but I've no idea what caused that. At the moment, I'm fine.

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We both had Covid for the second time at half term end of October. Wasn't quite as bad as the first time, but we both feel like we carried on having a dry cough until we developed what we have now. Very strange.

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Originally Posted by Harrison

This year has been rubbish and it looks like it will continue like that until the end.

There's been a horrible cold/flu everyone is catching. It lasts for weeks and everyone is getting this same dry barking cough that just won't go away. . Nearly everyone I know has it.

My wife came home from work Friday feeling really ill. Had to rush to the doctor as really bad asthma and coughing. Her temperature was 38.7. She's on about 5 different drugs. Then Saturday afternoon Tom said he wasn't feeling great. That night his temperature was 37.8 and he's not wanted to eat anything.

Now I've developed the same and am off work with a chest infection and having to take steroids and antibiotics. And my doctor has changed my asthma medication too.

And we just heard some of our friends have Covid.

So it's going to be a great Christmas for everyone. My parents are meant to be coming over Christmas day but they are worried about catching whatever we have as they are both getting old and have their own health conditions.

Just hoping what we have cleared up in time. Last year we were meant to go to my parents on the 28th for my birthday, but my wife came down with Covid on Boxing day, so my birthday was cancelled.

I'm getting the feeling Christmas is becoming jinxed.

I hope everyone else is feeling ok and has a great sickness free Christmas.

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Nope.... Third Shit Xmas for us.... :twofinger:

Last two Xmas's were completely fubar thanks to COVID Jabs..... the last ones being our 3rd booster.....

This year, I'm now on day 2 of Amoxicillin (3 x 500mg for 5 days) in order to clear a seriously bad chest infection & Deb has had a cold from hell for two weeks now.

Merry f'kin Christmas! :acclaim:

Wtf guys? I feel really sorry for you. I have been in Finland for Christmas the last 3 years and everything was fine. This year, meaning tonight, I'm going to my parents, although mom called me to tell me that she has a flu, made a Covid test which was negative. So I'm going there later, making boeuf bourguignon now here at home to take with, my parents just live across the street, opposite house.

Fingers crossed, so far no Covid in my close family, I didn't have any flu yet although I'm really prone to that shit. My father is in the best shape, better than myself, my best friend just came by to give us a Christmas present and told me that his father is in hospital since 2 weeks and not being well at all, can't even walk. And he was always super healthy, no smoking, no alcohol and stuff. He's 10 years older than my father, born in 1937.

Everything seems to be random.

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Originally Posted by Kin Hell

Nope.... Third Shit Xmas for us.... :twofinger:

Last two Xmas's were completely fubar thanks to COVID Jabs..... the last ones being our 3rd booster.....

This year, I'm now on day 2 of Amoxicillin (3 x 500mg for 5 days) in order to clear a seriously bad chest infection & Deb has had a cold from hell for two weeks now.

Merry f'kin Christmas! :acclaim:

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Sounds like the same thing we've had. I've also been on Amoxicillin x 3 for 5 days. Plus Prednisolone steroids 8x tablets in one go for 5 days. And I've now been put on a Fostair inhaler for my asthma. That really seems too of helped.

Ours started with a dry hacking cough that just wouldn't go away for weeks, turn developed into this. Loads of people seem to have it.

I actually changed doctors surgery at the start of this week as my old surgery just kept saying it would clear up on it's own, or I couldn't even get through. And they were not being helpful with my asthma either. Registered with this new one on Monday and I was registered and talking to someone Tuesday morning. Instantly said I needed antibiotics and help with my asthma. And I can pick up prescriptions electronically from a small pharmacy one road away from my home. Before I had to drive to the old doctors, pick up the prescription then go into the pharmacy next door to it and queue for 20 minutes. Wish I'd changed ages ago.

I'm thankfully feeling a lot better for tomorrow. Hope you are feeling better soon.

Strangely enough same thing happened also to us now, Saturday mom was feeling bad, so bad that in the evening she was only lying in bed feeling horrible, so us 3 only ate some snacks, didn't even open presents.

On Sunday evening I had to cancel the family lunch for yesterday.

Yesterday afternoon my girlfriend started to have fever and staid almost the whole day in bed, I woke her up this morning like 10 minutes ago but she's sick.

She works from home today anyway but I think she will call in sick, I was supposed to go to the office and the cleaning lady was supposed to come here, but I had to cancel that also yesterday evening. So I will work from home now, rather have an eye on her if it gets worse.

That's not good. Hope you are all feeling better soon.

Neither of us have COVID but I'm in a queue now for the Doc's again. - 5 Days of Amoxicillin & I'm still coughing green sh!t.

I've done 7 day's without a roll up now, so as good a time to quit as any.

Dunno where this is going. I daren't go out to the doc's as I have a huge blotchy rash on my legs. No rash anywhere else yet so hoping it isn't Scarlett Fever.

Thanks for the well wishes H.

@ DC

This is all another extension of COVID & those flipper munching f'kers are having another COVID crisis in Beijing.

As JT said a while back..... Nuke 'em from space!


Old man.... signing off! :eyebrow:

Doesn't sound good mate, I had once this blotchy rash on my legs too, and it were hives.

Rash on legs doesn't sound good. Might not be anything, but be careful and try to get it looked at.

I'll take a rash on the legs any day than my bell end! - Gut must be healthy not to have a speckled bell end for last course of Amoxicillin....

Now on Doxycycline 100mg caps 1 a day after boosting 2 today, & Cetirizine Hydrochloride 10mg 1 a day before bedtime. - Fkin Anti-Histamines for the Rash! :huh:

Apparently I've had a Virus....

Well, F'k me! :nuts:

I got cetirizine for the rash too. Mine looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/QxXmQ8r.jpg

Wow that was bad.

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Originally Posted by Demon Cleaner

I got cetirizine for the rash too. Mine looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/QxXmQ8r.jpg

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Fu*king Hell DC.... :huh:

I've not taken one yet & my rash is gone. :eyebrow:

My father got also now sick yesterday and both of my parents need to stay home so I went today to do a little shopping for them in the supermarket.

My girlfriend is also still sick, sneezing and coughing like hell. We went to the doctor yesterday to get some medication and she went to blood and covid test this morning. She's sleeping all day long. Also since yesterday she doesn't taste anything anymore, nose is blocked that much. If it's not better by next week she will need to get antibiotics.

I was going to make some puns based on you visiting the Champagne region but after reading all the following posts I decided it would be in bad taste for me to do that.

Being sick around Christmas is no fun. Here at JT Towers we were all mostly well but our little dog got acute pancreatitis and needed some vet attention, to the tune of about 3 grand. Ooooof, ouch, erk, etc. She's well on the mend now though.

Ouch! Time for pet insurance?

Luckily she was insured already and they covered around 80%.

She's been pretty healthy up til now, and is a good doggo.

That's good. I don't currently have insurance for my dog and am now thinking I really should.

Although now the last NHS dentist has closed in my area I also need to start paying dentist insurance. Plus I'm now prescribed more asthma medication I've started having to pay a monthly prepaid prescription to reduce thec overall cost of that. So much for our national insurance paying for free healthcare. Slowly going private behind our backs.

I think we'd be better off overall if we'd payed the equivalent of money for insurance into a savings account and left it untouched unless needed. But that takes patience and discipline and forward planning.

For 9 or 10 years the insurance has basically done nothing, as dog was healthy and well, but I am glad we had it here.

My dog is just coming up to 7 years and had been healthy to date. But we all know as they get older the likelihood of needing a vet increases. I will have to see what insurance is available. My vet does a policy that includes yearly checkups, vacinations and monthly flea treatment. We already do it for our cat, so I might see how much it would be for the dog.