Thanks, Uff. They have some pulse oximeters in the local Argos and I can get one delivered tomorrow. Another medical friend also recommended getting one, and my brother in law used his when he caught covid during the first wave. It meant that he could be monitored at home, always a good idea to be prepared, just in case. So far, just feeling a bit tired, the cough is intermittent, worst is the sore nose from rough tissues! The guest room is very comfortable, having been redecorated this year. OH will have the living room to himself, currently watching rugby league, so I’m quite happy to miss that.
@Ergates, hope you start to feel better soon. Lots of rest and lots of liquids will help.
I must say that when we got it, back in April, I was quite relieved to have had it at last and get it over with, figured that it might help with the antibodies count. The reality (no worse than a bad cold) was far better than the imagining of how bad it might be.
Thanks all. Off to sleep now, the evening went very quickly with phone calls from both children, and from sister. Very welcome distraction. Take care, everyone.
Crumbs my post got re-quoted a lot! Interesting, both my daughter and neighbours are smokers, neither overweight, he eats like a horse anything and everything is really skinny,he hasn't been to a GP in the 25 years married to my friend,in fact he's not even registered with one. They haven't lost confidence in the vaccines, they both just said they're fed up with the agro,my daughter said she feels she's had enough "stuff" put in her.
Nanny Beach said:. daughter said she feels she's had enough "stuff" put in her.
That reminds me of a ‘discussion’ I once had with a patient who didn’t want a local anaesthetic for a procedure that I knew would be very painful for her, and more difficult and very stressful for me, without one. She gave her reason as not wanting potentially harmful chemicals in her body. I asked her if she was a smoker ( which she obviously was) I didn’t need to say any more than that, and she had the local anaesthetic without quibble.
Todays SAGE meeting was interesting. The overwhelming view of the far cleverer docs. than me, was if rates of infection keep rising at current rates, hospitals will be full by mid December. If that isn't a reason to be vaccinated, I don't know what is.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I hear that people are fed up with vaccines and ‘agro’ but there will be a whole lot more agro when we are back in a crisis or people are so ill that they wish they’d just had a jab.
I don’t particularly want chemicals injected in me, but I’d rather that than me or my loved ones going through a critical illness (and you’ll be given plenty of chemicals then, believe me).
I don't understand the fuss about having a Covid jab, be it a one off or annual. The vast majority of the population has had all manner of injections over the years so this one is no different.
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So far, just feeling a bit tired, the cough is intermittent, worst is the sore nose from rough tissues!
The guest room is very comfortable, having been redecorated this year. OH will have the living room to himself, currently watching rugby league, so I’m quite happy to miss that.
we too bought an oximeter back in the first weeks of Covid in 2020 … thankfully it’s not been needed yet. 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I must say that when we got it, back in April, I was quite relieved to have had it at last and get it over with, figured that it might help with the antibodies count. The reality (no worse than a bad cold) was far better than the imagining of how bad it might be.
Take care, everyone.
If that isn't a reason to be vaccinated, I don't know what is.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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