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Be careful and have a phone with someone fast dial near you (if you are alone at home).
My older brother was too proud to ask for help when he got it and he lost around 20 kilos in 1 week (nothing in the fridge and not going / sending anyone to the grocery, besides of no energy to cook the few he had) and ended paying the highest price (he died while sleeping due to pulmonar embolism)
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A very sad story indeed. My sincere condolences.
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Thanks
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I have a pulse oximeter at home and have been watching my O2 levels. All above 97% so far.
I think I will be fine, it is going to take time with this one.
I have had all my vaccines and boosters. So, hopefully, no visits to the hospital.
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Slacker007 wrote: So, hopefully, no visits to the hospital.
I'll keep my fingers crossed.
We all got it in January 2022 (even the babies 6 weeks old), we all got it relative light, my wife got hit at hardest but everyone was negative within 10 days and no sequels, at least not noticeable yet 1,5 years later.
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I feel sad about your post. Hope the family is OK.
I have sisters and I could not imagine losing one to this terrible disease.
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Our father and his daughter got a hard hit. I was more angry than sad, because he could have avoided it, just swallowing his pride and stubbornness. At the end was his own decission.
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Understand.
My generation and probably your Father's have not faced this type of powerful
infection and not tuned into the danger and I would be angry as well.
Damn covid.
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Took us a month to totally recover, good luck!
Beginning to think it's not if you get it, it's when!
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Yeah, I think I got this from the Casino my wife and I play bingo at a few times a year (this last weekend).
I'm just surprised that it took this long for me to get it.
I can't taste anything, not even hot sauce. 
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Good luck to you both, hope it's not more than fatigue and minor complications.
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Sorry to hear that Covid found you.
Slacker007 wrote: I can't taste anything, not even hot sauce.
I had the Delta version and it took my sense of taste/smell for about a month. The only things I could really taste was salt and sour. You should try some lemon juice, I did and all I could taste was the sour but wouldn't have known it was lemon if I didn't look at it.
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right now I can taste a slight hint of salty, sour, and sweet; it's less today then yesterday, but complete lack of smell and taste.
I had a meeting with the doctor's office today via tele-medicine and they prescribed me Paxlovid and a cough suppressant.
I have not gotten any worse that I can tell, but I am not getting any better. So, going to ride this out just like everyone else before me, and then buy the t-shirt when this is all done. 
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I'm just getting over it. I had been symptomatic for a week before I tested positive. I thought it was just the usual seasonal allergy congestion, until my daughter called and said she was positive. She had been here to take me for cataract surgery.
By the time all was said and done, I had infected four other family members. Fortunately they could take the antivirals and reduce the severity and time. I was infected too long for them to help.
The great irony in all this is based on the timing, I was probably infected at the clinic where I had pre-surgery testing  .
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Yesterday was a long day: I went shopping early, and got back just after 08:00 to find Herself on the floor unable to get up. Some querying later and she was trying to refill the cat treats tub by standing on the arm of an armchair which promptly tipped her off and she slammed to the floor.
Now, I do know enough that if I try to pick her up, I'll make things worse - she weighs more that I do - so it's time to call for emergency services. With help over the phone, I get her up and sat down, but it's clear everything is not right, she's in huge amounts of pain when she moves. Two hours later an ambulance arrives to check her, and her left arm is injured - broken or dislocated, we're not sure but either way it's off to hospital which everyone was trying to avoid - at that point one ambulance had been sitting outside the A&E / ER waiting to unload a patient for 22 hours!
So she gets walked (very slowly) to the ambulance, and I follow it down. Ten minutes after we arrive, she's been triaged and sent to a special clinic - OPAS or "Older Persons Assessment Service"* And there she stays, x-rayed, diagnosed, and in pain while they try to sort it all out. She's broken her humerus right near the top which is a pretty bad idea since they can't put a cast on it, just a frame to try and hold it in one place. She has to wait, and wait for a consultant to get round to looking at it. He suspects she also has some osteoporosis so we'll have to look at that later as well.
And there I stay as well: in a tiny waiting room with no aircon but a heater I can't turn off and a gentleman who had been there since 23:00 the previous night. His phone is flat already, mine is well on the way ... Neither of us thought to bring a charger.
Finally, we get home about 18:00 and get her settled, fed, pilled, and sorted - she has to sleep sitting up for a while (so she can't roll over) so she'll be downstairs, and I'll be up. Neither of us get a good night's worth: every time she moves it hurts, and a lot - which wakes me up as well. The cat is sulking because things have changed and he doesn't like that, not at all - I have have lost my nightly foot warmer.
04:00 and I get up - it's silly lying there awake trying to not wake someone who isn't really sleeping either.
As I said, I'm knackered.
And you want to know the funny bit? She has to do 15 training courses every year for work - one of which is a "health and safety" course which devotes a good quarter of it's runtime to "Don't stand on chairs" ...
She won't do that again.
* Why do I suspect the acronym came first and some German humour was involved, given that "Opa" is German for "grandfather"?
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That sounds a bit like my wife, she has quite a history of falling and breaking / bruising too.
Hope she will recover soon!
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Sorry to hear Griff. Hope she is on the road to a speedy-as-possible mend.
Goes without saying but as we all get older we have to really think first before we act/move/whatever. Always asking ourselves "Is what I am about to do a great idea?".
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I think it's going to take quite a while - it's a big bone, and bones heal slower as you get older.
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Condolences, hope all turns out well.
Us older folks take longer to heal.
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Oh boy Griff. Best wishes for you and the Mrs.
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Nasty. I hope the missus has a speedy recovery.
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OriginalGriff wrote: She has to do 15 training courses every year for work - one of which is a "health and safety" course
Never let them know how this happened, she'll have to do 30 courses every year...
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Sorry to hear about your wife. Hope she's not in quite as much pain.
My wife has a condition which means she has collapsed a couple of times and it's not clear why. She was taken by ambulance (with lights & sirens) to hospital once while she was at the local doctors' surgery and collapsed!
The most recent time, she hit her head so NHS Direct (general telephone medical assistance) advised going to A&E (ER). We were there from about 6:30pm to around 4am before we saw a doctor. She's now on the "Urgent" list to see a specialist... since last September!
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My best to her healing quickly. She is having a "gnarly" time.
Knackered is interesting description. My Father used say he had "gnarly" day.
At my previous work, "slip, trip and fall" were #1 causes of accidents which also applies to home.
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Hopefully she recovers completely. What really concerns me is the two-hour response time for emergency services. That's criminal.
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