fingers crosse tracer, i hadnt seen migraine as a common symptom but i have where possible just been avoiding too much of that reporting tbh
heartened that yr MI taste is back, that is indeed the best of them
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Sorry you’re going through this!
― rob, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Thanks for keeping everyone informed, I'm sure it's a struggle.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
best wishes to you both
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
Best wishes to you both.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 <3
― maura, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
<<<<3333
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
Damn Tracer, hang in there.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Friday, 3 April 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
,
fuck, tracer. get well soon. and thanks for keeping us updated here - this sort of thing really helpful (and dare i say it interesting)
― Fizzles, Friday, 3 April 2020 06:19 (four years ago) link
Get well soon. Hope it does mean you can't get it again at least.
― Stevolende, Friday, 3 April 2020 06:55 (four years ago) link
<3 Tracer all the best to you and family. thanks for posting your updates. what fizzles just said.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 3 April 2020 07:08 (four years ago) link
Hold tight Tracer. Honestly this sounds like a real motherfucker, something especially cruel about the way it seems to trick everyone into thinking they're improving for a bit before finding new and more horrific ways to brutalise them.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 April 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
following, and wishing both of you the best
― sleeve, Friday, 3 April 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
Thanks all. Feeling much better today. 8-y-o’s fever came back in the middle of the night. When I went down for my pee he was calling out that he couldn’t go back to sleep. So I calpol’ed him up and today he’s.... fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
sending love; fight through.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 April 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
Friday 3 AprilLast night decided to watch 'View From The Top' (Paltrow, Ruffalo, 2003). A more hallucinatorily bad movie I may have never seen. Everything is so airless and off about it, it's just bananas.
The Lovely Emma B's sleep anxiety has decided to return, which is unhelpful. Paul's fever came back in the night. Some Calpol took care of it.
For the first time in a long time none of us went outside at all. It just felt like too much.
Something I haven't noted yet, but which has ben a feature of the last week, is a ringing in my ears. It's not overwhelming but it's pretty much always there. I notice it particularly in the mornings. Which throws another log on the fire of the feeling that every day I'm somehow paying for Hunter S Thompson's sins. Head pains, metallic taste, burnt out lungs, just a general charred aspect to life. And ringing ears like I've been to a thrash metal show.
Felt pretty okay today. Didn't take any naps. Like an idiot checked work email and found out I'd been taken off a project "indefinitely" that I'd been looking forward to for a long time, and which is one of the main things motivating me to get back in the saddle. Started boiling inside. Instantly fired off about 4 pissed off texts and was reassured pretty much straight away that no, it's a misunderstanding - I'm still on the project. Sometimes you have to throw a strategic stink. I've been watching Larry Sanders. I know how this shit goes. The second your back is turned the fucking jackals come out.
My sister keeps texting me ancient newspaper clippings of distant ancestors who died of the the Spanish flu. i.e. 'This was your great-uncle Carl'. Thanks?
Another texting buddy warns of a 'spike on day 10' so i guess I've got that to look forward to.
Ordered pizza and watched Major League. Kids and wife all now asleep. The latter will surely wake at some point soon, at which point I am armed with what have become the most precious objects in my household bar none: 2x 500mg paracetemol tablets.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
<3
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
LOL
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
thank u ulysses
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
hugs tracer and thx for writing this up :)
― mark s, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
thinking of u tracer & the whole hand familyi have avoided reading most firsthand accounts of this scourge aside from this one
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
Maybe the ringing ears is just coincidental arrival of tinnitus? There's a thread on that. Great choice with Larry Sanders. A show filled mostly with venal characters seems perfect.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
I have mild tinnitus which I mostly don't notice unless I think about it, but sometimes when I have a cold it gets a lot worse/harder to ignore, and stays that way for a week or two after all the other symptoms have gone
obv the 'rona is not just a cold, but maybe something similar going on physiologically? not that I know what that is, exactly
thanks for your updates - glad you felt a bit better today and fought for your place on the project! hope you get better soon, and your kid too; it's good that he's mostly not been too bothered by symptoms so I hope it stays that way
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 3 April 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
this sounds proper shit, tracer. hope you and your family are on the mend soon
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 April 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
thanks for your reports tracer
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 3 April 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
you're welcome! thank you all for the good wishes. i hope this doesn't feel indulgent. obviously many have it worse than me so far.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
It's not indulgent at all. We all really want to read this. Thank you for doing it.
― kraudive, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
^^ agreed, this is really helpful and (so far) relatively reassuring info.
hoping we hear from stet soon as well.
― sleeve, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
I take it you're in Australia Tracer Hand, so you wouldn't know CNN's Chris Cuomo. (If you're in, like, Hoboken, New Jersey, just pretend I didn't say that.) Similar to your posts, he's still going on and doing his show every night from his basement. First-hand accounts are enormously helpful to people like me who are living in perpetual fear of this.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
tracer is an American who lives in London
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
according to my xls
The grand ILX tapestry is a mystery to me. I piece it together as best I can.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
Trayce is in Australia.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
my wife’s had an elevated temp since Friday and generally been feeling duff - felt a little worse today, called 111 and the doc said ‘yeah, probably a touch of the ‘rona, what are you gonna do 🤷♂️, call back if your symptoms get more severe’if only there was some type of, like, test or something that could tell you if you had it
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
fingers x-ed for the best bg :(
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
oh shit, good luck to you both
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
Good luck Mr and Mrs Gazzara.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
best to you BG.
Has Tracer posted anywhere recently?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
good luck to your wife and of course yourself and the whole family! not fun to have when you have a young'un to attend to :(
(er, unless my .xlsx is faulty)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
tracer posted here earlier today (phones and kids) and on one of my whatsapps
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
Good luck bg
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
yeah, we’ve got a 21-month-old - challenging enough keeping her entertained without the possibility of a visit from the ‘ronamy eyes have been super-itchy today and i’m knackered but that could just as easily be the start of hay fever season and being run down from being cooped up for three weekstime will tell i guess - if my wife has been ill with it since the end of last week it’s been pretty mild so far, thankfully
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
This is a good thread. am wishing all the rona-touched a recovery and some solace thru what sounds like a lot of frightening misery.
― i am a horse girl (map), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
Best to youse BG <3
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
Sorry to hear that bg, hope it fucks off asap!
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
i maledict...the virus
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
hay fever season is wretchedly bad here. I opened up the house yesterday during beautiful weather and I feel fatigued today
99% sure it's allergies and the quick bike ride I took yesterday around the block
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Best to you all bg. And best to everyone fighting this right now.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
hang in there bg.Sorry I stopped my little narrative. It was starting to get repetitive. My sorry now is that for myself and my kids I think it’s firmly in the rear view mirror. Unfortunately the Lovely Emma B still has a fever, which is not ideal. Day 12 for her.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
oh she has like 12-15 already lol
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 February 2024 17:52 (two months ago) link
mom improving. me, still nothing, no symptoms, no positive test.
and now i've been isolating, whereas before we knew we had basically been sharing a lot of the same air.
may get lucky.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:21 (two months ago) link
isolating from mom that is in my own room. and a KN95
Good thoughts, that's a lot. Hope improvement continues.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
the big improvement is in her cough, thankfully. suggests that the bronchitis might indeed be separate bacterial infection and that antibiotics are working.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:30 (two months ago) link
mom has essentially beaten the bronchitis and sinus infection and just has residual gunk from the bronchitis.
still testing positive, but line has gotten fainter finally.
I continue to test negative and feel absolutely fine, and if mom is negative soon, I might completely luck out again. especially since we're basically in separate rooms and masking when in the same room.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2024 21:29 (two months ago) link
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this lollipop sucks, who comes up with these flavors
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Saturday, 13 April 2024 12:50 (three weeks ago) link
Get well! How do you feel?
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 April 2024 12:54 (three weeks ago) link
Not too bad, actually. A little achy, sinuses swole but not runny, feels like I have a slight fever but my thermometer says no. I caught it from my wife, who got it from her cousin last Sunday on an eclipse-watching trip. She had one very uncomfortable day but is on the upswing.
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Saturday, 13 April 2024 13:14 (three weeks ago) link
Hello Covid, my old friendI've come to cough with you again...
A buddy tested positive this morning, so I thought I should take a test as well... Positive!
It's been a couple years since I came down with the 'Rona.. I thought I was having a little case of sniffles mixed with hay fever; nope, it's Covid
Current CDC guidelines say to isolate until you've gone 24 hours with no fever, without using fever-reducing meds (which I haven't been)... currently at 99.6* so not too bad
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:14 (four days ago) link
Sorry to hear Andy!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 06:40 (three days ago) link
Last night was pretty rough, but I feel better this morning... I think it was the hot toddy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:39 (three days ago) link
My wife and I caught it again about a month ago now, it was milder than the first time (1 day down-and-out instead of 3+) but we both have a lingering brain fog. Best wishes to Andy and anyone else suffering now.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:56 (two days ago) link