Coronavirus

[Broccers]

Are sweden in a recession yet? How much did their debt grow in the 2 years of manic hysteria? These are the important things moving forwards.

[Simon]

Don't forget this is all excess deaths so counts deaths from knock-on factors as well, like missed cancer diagnosis, suicide, etc etc

[Broccers]

Don't forget this is all excess deaths so counts deaths from knock-on factors as well, like missed cancer diagnosis, suicide, etc etc

Exactly.

It's embarrassing we've all been mugged off so badly. Well, some of us.

[ZedLeg]

Don't forget this is all excess deaths so counts deaths from knock-on factors as well, like missed cancer diagnosis, suicide, etc etc

Exactly.

It's embarrassing we've all been mugged off so badly. Well, some of us.

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[nuttinnew]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... r-covid-19

[jamcg]

Finally got it. Feel shit.

[Simon]

Brother-in-law and father-in-law both have it. They're both coughing a lot but otherwise ok.

[DeskJockey]

I'm hopefully over mine. Been very lucky in that I've not really felt worse than similar to mild flu. Get well soon!

[integrale_evo]

Loads of people around me have had it recently.

Couple of our neighbours were over on the Thursday and two days later one of them ( who hadn’t been here ) had it, then the rest of their family were positive. On the Friday I popped round my mums and the next day she felt rough, tested positive on the Sunday. A couple of days later my dad was too.

That same Friday we popped to a birthday party. Both Saturday and Sunday I felt rough, put it down to a really bad hangover. On the Monday a couple of people we were with were positive.

I still felt a bit dull and achey, but our household all continually tested negative.

Then this week my supervisor has been off with it.

I’m amazed I didn’t pick it up, I don’t know how virus’ work, could my immune system have detected it and been kicking in making me feel like crap without the virus becoming invasive enough to cause a big enough response to give a positive test?

[jamcg]

You do need to be shedding a half decent amount to test positive on a lateral flow so it’s a possibility

I keep getting symptoms in waves, started with a sore throat, then back, hip and knee pain kicked in and now I’m shivering like a constipated chihuahua

[davecG60]

Cheers for the replies folks, I'm glad to be over it. Hopefully the heart issue is nothing serious as I'm now stranded in front of the TV with plantar fasciitis ( basically foots buggered after 25 k steps a day for 16 years !)

Ah well, never rains .............

Just a little update ( Idon't think it's worth a new thread so excuse the hijack )
Went back to work last week as I was at the end of my 100% paid sick leave. As the main earner in the house I had no choice but to return to work.
The feet are a bit better but still not giving me a pain free day. I went back in for 3 days as a gentle reintroduction to work, now on summer hols and then when I return after that it'll be a phased return over 6 weeks with the target of being back on postal deliveries at week 4.
However all didn't go as well as I hoped...
Turns out I had been seen walking the dog ( did a 20 min walk with him each day) and also we drove to the local hilltop and hobbled the 50M to the top to watch the sunrise. My wife put it on FB along with a description of me being loaded with painkillers and hobbling up the hill but somebody decided to inform my Line Manager I was obviously taking the piss and as i was fit enough to do that then I was fit enough to work on my feet for 8 hours and do 25k steps!
I need to be outside for my Mental Health although I accept it may have slowed my foot from healing as quick as it could well have, a very small bit of outside air was more beneficial to me. All my absence is obviously covered by GP notes and then theres the NHS physio, private physio, strict set of daily exercises to help ease the muscles back into health, various prescription meds to cope with the pain and side effects, Podiatry visits, insoles, padded day socks and nighgt socks as well! Think I'd done a fair bit to get better - even work's Occ Health said it would be 6 - 18 months recovery!

The Line manager warned me of "some hostility" towards me when I went out on the shop floor but he'd read my (pretty extensive) medical notes on my work file and knew that I need to be outside for my M.H. No further action from him then.

But it's been hell. Nobody has said anything direct to me but because of my "issues" my anxiety is bouncing. Hardly any sleep wed/thurs/fri and couldn't eat in the morning before work, stomach cramps etc etc. And now my depression is creeping back. I just can't explain to myself why one of my "friends" would stir all this up. I've always been open about my breakdowns and mental health so I know by spreading the shit they'd realised how it would effect me. I guess I feel betrayed by it all. I know I can't control it and shouldn't let it all get to me but that is how my head works. It's shit and I'm now paranoid about going anywhere in case I'm seen, thinking if I go out I need to hobble everywhere or even get a wheelchair.

Anyway I don't really know why I'm telling a load a strangers about this but I'm just hoping it helps me. Sorry for the waffle.

[dinny_g]

Sorry to hear about your troubles Dave. Still, your line manager is on side so that’s important.

[Beany]

Oof, that's shitty.

Sounds like your line manager might be on your side, but they need a fucking talking to for not getting the (arguably slanderous) goss under control.

[DeskJockey]

What the others said. Apart from that I guess focus on managing your condition the best way for you.

[dinny_g]

As far as the facebook thing goes, perhaps it might not be a friend after all - depending on the settings your wife has in play, the pictures may have been visible to "friends of friends", or even public, so perhaps one of them, rather than your direct friends has an axe to grind.

I know there are a lot of people with bug bears about Covid - because "their mate Dave, never been vaccinated, had it and worked 20 hour shifts down d'pit" everyone who has health problems is therefore workshy etc

Best of luck in all this Dave - last thing anyone needs.

[John]

Hope things improve Dave. However you should be getting a few more days off soon if you get the right result tomorrow

[MikeHunt]

Anyway I don't really know why I'm telling a load a strangers about this but I'm just hoping it helps me. Sorry for the waffle.

Sorry to hear that and hope typing it all out helped.

[Broccers]

Well that's not nice. Hopefully they find someone else to bitch about fairly quickly.

[Nefarious]

Myself, Mrs. Nef and mini Nef all had covid a few weeks ago and it was *fucking horrendous*. The girls had it in 2020 and 2021, and I had it for definite in 2021 (maybe 2020 too), and it was just bad colds with tiredness - this was something else. On different occasions, I nearly called an ambulance for each of them.

Beginning of June, we all went down to Yorkshire, and came back with what we assumed was covid. Usual story. Bad cold, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then we all got better, albeit with some lingering tiredness. We were well-ish for 3-4 days and then it hit us.
Little one got hit first - 40 deg temp, doubled over screaming with abdominal pain. Then Mrs. Nef - flu symptoms but with a heavy head cold. On several occasions here throat closed up completely and she was struggling for breath. I had 2-3 days lying on the floor in the foetal position feeling like somebody had turned atmospheric pressure up 3 fold - unbearable headache and feeling like my eyes would burst out of my head. Never been ill like it.

Still don't know WTF. Was it two different strains and somehow the first had weakened us to the second? Don't know.

As one of the people who had thought that this is all over and the strains are now basically just colds, I now feel pretty stupid. Seeing my otherwise fit and healthy partner suffocating in front of me was pretty shocking, and I could easily imagine that the slightest underlying issue would've tipped the balance. Scary, scary shit.

[jamcg]

@Nefarious i was of the opinion it’s just a cold, I like to think I’ve got an above average immune system, playing with other peoples shit pipes for a living exposes you to some real nasty stuff on the regular. I got away lightly with just 24hours of real nasty symptoms, but the headache is like nothing I’d ever experienced and never want to again. All the best to you all in your recovery.

@davecG60 my wife has grade 4 osteoarthritis in her knee, plus an acl which is cleanly broken in 2 pieces. All which necessitates her to use a walking stick or rollator depending where we are and what we’re doing. She has to put up with a lot of shit from work colleagues along the lines of “we’ve all got arthritis, we just get on with it”. She constantly has to justify herself that at grade 4 her joint is bone on bone, constant agony and a massive reduction in quality of life (basically she needs a knee replacement and at only 38 she won’t qualify for one on the NHS for around 12-14 years she’s been told. Private isn’t an option for us)

It seems unless you’re missing a limb, living with a physical disability includes constantly justifying it. And everyone judges you by your good days and not your worst or even your average ones. It’s shit as fuck, but after 4 years of it we’ve learnt to ignore them.

Hopefully you’ll end up in a place mentally where they don’t get to you. It’s a hard place to get to though. Hopefully you get there and even more hopefully you get sorted in the end.