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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING What's Ailing You Now? Thread

I had a mammogram this afternoon.

I'm on a strict regular rotation for the test due to family history. Even though I've done it lots of times, it's still a bit nerve-racking to have your boobs smushed sideways and a picture taken.
 
Allergies from all the burning pine pollen . . . Yuck.

Gonna take a Benadryl(TM) tonight and go to bed early. Hopefully it will knock this stuff out.

Jim
 
Well, had my annual eye exam. I managed to loose some vision in my right eye instead of my left. My cataracts got worse but not bad enough for the insurance to cover the surgery. Night driving is getting interesting.
 
Annual physical yesterday. After hitting 45 they loaded me up. I also got a tetanus shot which had me achy this morning. I now have appointments with:
  • Doctor for colonoscopy
  • Doctor for varicose veins
  • Podiatrist for bunions and foot pain
  • Sleep study
  • ENT

The funny thing was all my blood tests were better than any time since before Covid and I'm down about 20 lbs in weight.

In the last 6 months, I also got my first prescription for bifocals.
 
Pain in my feet was probably the result of fallen arches in comfy old but not supportive work shoes. New shoes seem to have corrected this, thankfully.
 
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Spent some time at the funeral home this weekend for an elderly aunt. Because she was in her mid-80s, most of the visitors other than family were in their mid-80s. I've never seen such a variety of canes and walkers in my life. I cycled back and forth between, "I've got to take better care of myself" to "Its amazing how many 80 year olds are still kicking around."
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
Spent some time at the funeral home this weekend for an elderly aunt. Because she was in her mid-80s, most of the visitors other than family were in their mid-80s. I've never seen such a variety of canes and walkers in my life. I cycled back and forth between, "I've got to take better care of myself" to "Its amazing how many 80 year olds are still kicking around."
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You yungun's may have the guns but the silverbacks got the numbers.
 
Our oldest daughter has walking pneumonia - started with a slight cough most of last week then over the weekend the cough got horrible and never ending and she also developed a low fever. Her throat wasn't hurting (other than from the cough), she wasn't congested, she didn't feel tired and groggy, she didn't really lose her appetite, etc. After multiple negative COVID tests we took her into the doctor yesterday morning and got the diagnosis of a seemingly very mild case of pneumonia.

She's on antibiotics now and it seemed to make a difference by the time she went to bed last night and then I didn't hear her coughing all night long like she did the last few nights so hopefully the medicine does what it's supposed to. She's anxious to get back to school tomorrow.

FWIW, she has a close friend with some sort of autoimmune problem who gets sick with absolutely everything. I'm going to blame her anytime my daughter brings home some sort of illness.

On the other hand, I was talking to my neighbor at the gym this morning. He's a doctor who studies respiratory illnesses and weird tropical diseases and he said they've seen a lot of mild cases of pneumonia this fall (relative to most falls) in the reporting he looks at so maybe I shouldn't lay all the blame on that friend from school.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Our oldest daughter has walking pneumonia - started with a slight cough most of last week then over the weekend the cough got horrible and never ending and she also developed a low fever. Her throat wasn't hurting (other than from the cough), she wasn't congested, she didn't feel tired and groggy, she didn't really lose her appetite, etc. After multiple negative COVID tests we took her into the doctor yesterday morning and got the diagnosis of a seemingly very mild case of pneumonia.

She's on antibiotics now and it seemed to make a difference by the time she went to bed last night and then I didn't hear her coughing all night long like she did the last few nights so hopefully the medicine does what it's supposed to. She's anxious to get back to school tomorrow.

FWIW, she has a close friend with some sort of autoimmune problem who gets sick with absolutely everything. I'm going to blame her anytime my daughter brings home some sort of illness.

On the other hand, I was talking to my neighbor at the gym this morning. He's a doctor who studies respiratory illnesses and weird tropical diseases and he said they've seen a lot of mild cases of pneumonia this fall (relative to most falls) in the reporting he looks at so maybe I shouldn't lay all the blame on that friend from school.
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Lots of cases of that this year.

www.michiganpublic.org

More kids have pneumonia this year. Here's what doctors are worried about.

It's a combination of Mycoplasma-related pneumonia, a surge of whooping cough, a record number of pediatric flu deaths, and the start of RSV season that's raising concerns about overwhelming pediatric resources again.
www.michiganpublic.org www.michiganpublic.org

My freshman at MSU got sick (the clinic never gave her an actual diagnosis) and she said everyone in the dorms has had some type of cough/respiratory illness at some point this fall.
 
When I was flying out of Atlanta last week a guy saw my pullover with Planning Department and struck up a conversation. He said he worked for the federal government (I assume CDC) and was heading to the northeast to figure out how a family caught a disease they shouldn't have in the continental US. That is one job that sounded interesting in school, but I have no desire to do after COVID.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
When I was flying out of Atlanta last week a guy saw my pullover with Planning Department and struck up a conversation. He said he worked for the federal government (I assume CDC) and was heading to the northeast to figure out how a family caught a disease they shouldn't have in the continental US. That is one job that sounded interesting in school, but I have no desire to do after COVID.
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I hear soon they can just sic Dr Oz on em for the celebrity treatment.
 
Dermatology visit -

Usual result are watch a spot, freeze a spot or two;
Today was that plus a biopsy.
 
After soreness plagued right hip for about a year a visit to orthopedist brought his reply, "Damn. You are a tough one! Me..."hunh?" Then he showed me X-rays..."There ain't nothing on this right side." Then he brightened and said he could knock this out in a cpl of hours. I complained that I practiced Yoga for 45 yrs. and this is what I get?
Complete hip replacement is the call.
 
Dad's having cataract surgery this morning. It's the first of 2 - the other is scheduled for 2 weeks from now.

Given the rain and flooding, I'm glad I'm not the one taking him in this morning!
 
Getting my COVID shot at 9:30 on Friday morning. Based on past experience, I'll start feeling "off" by noon, feel miserable Friday night and Saturday morning, and will slowly get better, becoming my normal self Sunday morning. That's why we aren't planning on seeing "ZooTopia 2" until Sunday, rather than Friday. I hate to waste a weekend and usually plan my shot so I'll miss a day of work instead, but since I am still new and building up my time, I'll forfeit a day of the long weekend instead.

If I didn't like my in-laws, I'd plan the shot for Wednesday, so I'd be sick on Thursday and not able to see the family. Luckily, I adore my inlaws (in general).

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In other news, I have an eye exam scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on December 24. I wonder if I get a prize for being their last patient of the year? (They will be closed until January 6. Why not Monday the 5th, I don't know.)
 
I just got back from being out from work the past six work days (Thursday and Friday last week don't count as work days).
 
jumbach said:
Getting my COVID shot at 9:30 on Friday morning. Based on past experience, I'll start feeling "off" by noon, feel miserable Friday night and Saturday morning, and will slowly get better, becoming my normal self Sunday morning. That's why we aren't planning on seeing "ZooTopia 2" until Sunday, rather than Friday. I hate to waste a weekend and usually plan my shot so I'll miss a day of work instead, but since I am still new and building up my time, I'll forfeit a day of the long weekend instead.

If I didn't like my in-laws, I'd plan the shot for Wednesday, so I'd be sick on Thursday and not able to see the family. Luckily, I adore my inlaws
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This is pretty much exactly what happened, except the off feeling started Friday night through Saturday night, and I was fine Sunday morning. That’s why I didn’t drive to San Jose—I didn’t want to start getting effects 250 miles from home.
 
jumbach said:
You are therefore entitled to take two sick days at some future date, since you were sick on non-work days.
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Say, we're looking for a new union rep. I can't tell you how many Sunday mornings I've woke up feeling under the weather. You think maybe you could get the powers that be to give us a few work days off during the week for that too?
 
Maister said:
Say, we're looking for a new union rep. I can't tell you how many Sunday mornings I've woke up feeling under the weather. You think maybe you could get the powers that be to give us a few work days off during the week for that too?
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Well, my rule since the 1990's has been that if you get sick enough on a weekend or planned day off that you would have called in sick, you are entitled to take a "replacement weekend day" within the next two pay cycles.
 
On a related note, my pet peeve is people coming to work sick. I'm not talking about allergies or an ear infection or some other minor ailment: I am talking full-on cold, flu, or worse. Especially in you work in food service or hospitality . . . STAY HOME!!!

If you want to work from home while sick, fine. But if there is any chance you are contagious, nobody wants you here.

Jim
 
jumbach said:
On a related note, my pet peeve is people coming to work sick. I'm not talking about allergies or an ear infection or some other minor ailment: I am talking full-on cold, flu, or worse. Especially in you work in food service or hospitality . . . STAY HOME!!!

If you want to work from home while sick, fine. But if there is any chance you are contagious, nobody wants you here.

Jim
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Me too. Since COVID, I’ve only worked in an office 5 days a week in 2022 (April to October) and this year (June to November). The rest of the time I had a hybrid schedule being in office 1-2 days per week and I was rarely sick.

Since June I’ve had 3 nasty colds. My hybrid schedule started last week so I’m only in 3 days a week now. At least one of those days only two people are in.
 
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