Anyone else sick?
I had a fever, cough and achy body Wednesday, have been on and off with what I would describe as a “mid-level cold” but certainly not bad enough to qualify for testing. Hoping down the road an antibodies test is available to see if this is or is not the Covid.
anyone else out there in this limbo where you are obviously sick but not really badly sick?
March 21st, 2020 at 11:56 PM ^
I was the sickest I have ever been in January, here in NC. Fever and exhaustion for days. Still have a heavy feeling on my lungs. I had pneumonia a few years ago, so my lungs always feel heavy after I'm sick. Thought it was the flu, on the third day of misery I went to the doctor's office. Tested negative for Flu A & B. Was told "it appears to be some nasty virus, stuff is going around." Two of my three kids had it first and I got it from them. No idea if it was Covid but it 100% was not the flu.
Same thing here with myself, my wife and our teenage daughter getting the worst of it though. Fevers came and went over three weeks, as the "unproductive" cough lingered that long. I have another friend in PA who said his daughter had the exact same thing - not strep, not A or B and a lingering cough for weeks and heaviness in the lungs. January it is for all of us.
I don’t know what you had or didn’t have but I would be very careful of saying “100%” based on a medical test that isn’t that close to being accurate:
You've just perfectly described my condition the past seven days. I have tested positive for Corona Virus.
wow. big news and of course not great news. are you feeling any better?
no matter what, get well hanlon.
I am, thank you XM. Symptom free now for 2 days. It ran a course of approximately 7 days. Still quarantined until two negative tests results within a 24 hour window.
3 out of 10 are probably asymptomatic.
March 21st, 2020 at 11:49 PM ^
Must be true. Yeah.. you had the flu, Man! Quit being a snowflake, because ‘the fume’/dude on interwebs said so.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:19 AM ^
I had these symptoms way back in 1992 so I've had COVID-19 before it was cool.
And the doctor tested for one of the 5 viruses that it could have been and it came back negative so it's definitely corona.
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that has been around for many years, it is possible to have symptoms of covid-19, but actually a person had the past common versions of coronaviruses. This is probably why the testing return for positive is below 20 percent even though we are only testing those with severe symptoms. It might be true that the death rate is 1% but then you are only looking at t gf at result judged in time when there are enough hospital beds and health care workers. If the virus spread too quickly It overwhelms hospital capacity in the US and the death rate will be higher because of this. U.S. death rates will more likely resemble The European countries not Asia. Asian countries are lower because in their culture they are more germaphobic, it’s acceptable that many people walked around with masks and gloves and they would accept long lockdowns. Trump is kind of right that he did a early shutdown by his Chinese traveler ban, but he basically squandered two months of prep time because he was ignoring the pandemic warnings from virus experts and intelligence community. We need to flatten the curve, since even Trump is saying that then remaining dismissive people should stop dismissing the seriousness of this all.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:23 AM ^
And you diagnosed this how?
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:29 AM ^
At least everyone knows going forward how they can save time and money. Don't go to the doctor, just go to Mgoblog and ask for the fume.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:35 AM ^
I got a stalker!!!!!
Just remember if a doctor told you in December that you had a virus that wasn't the flu, it was definitely COVID-19. Not a handful of the other viruses that have been around for centuries.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:40 AM ^
Never said I had a virus in December, never said I had Covid, don't give shit about your opinion either way though. So I've got that going for me.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:54 AM ^
Nobody's talking about you.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:25 AM ^
We don’t know.
China dismantled all of their temporary hospitals already. Why? And they have 25% of the worlds population and scored zero case this week? Right. I don’t believe a word those fuckers say. Huge shame on them.
But you can’t hide dismantling temp hospitals. Is this a good sign?
Italy (and Iran). Are a disaster.
Russia? Zero cases? Did they already have the vaccine?
In Seattle and think same thing. Believe I’ve already had it.
I called my doctor. Pretty sure I have it. Either that or I randomly got sick with flu at the same exact coincidental time as all of this when I normally never do. So -- IDK obviously. Started last Sunday with a sore throat / aches. Definitely fatigue / malaise like the flu but not as bad. Never a crazy fever. The breathing felt "off" but never really bad to where I couldn't finish sentences. Today was the first day where I felt "pretty good" again. Doctor said that it wasn't worth it to get a test rx because it wouldn't change anything other than just chilling at home like I have been unless it got to the point of a high fever or where I couldn't finish sentences without breathing. So -- yeah -- we are all going to get it. This is all happening so we don't all get it at the same time for those who actually have it bad.
Me and a coworker got the same mystery mid-January illness except I'm in metro Detroit. I had gotten a flu shot beforehand but it knocked me on my ass for like a week and was really bad. My coworker went to a doctor and was told that it wasn't the flu and was some sort of general upper respiratory infection.
I seriously wonder if that was it but I don't know if there's any way to know for sure.
March 22nd, 2020 at 12:35 PM ^
Also live in Seattle and something ran through our house as well around January. Mild fever, 2-3 week nasty nasty cough with slight breathing issues, and achy bodies. Took about a full month to get all us out of it. We also suspect we had it and it’s been here longer than most think ...and the kids just spread it everywhere hence shutting the schools down until next year. Right move.
our opinion only, don’t kill me
My wife works at a hospital, they have to take their temperature every morning before she goes to work. As that's a sign of the virus. So I do hope that you have Nothing major
Sore throat for the past week. Varying degrees of sinus & coughing, but no fever or aches.
Not yet, knock on wood.
i do call my 88 year old dad every other day though to make sure he’s taking his temperature. Though he had pneumonia in early February, so maybe that was it.
I'm just trying to keep my 91-year old dad - who started dialysis a few months ago - from living his life as though nothing is wrong. Thank goodness his bridge club, the movie theaters, and the DSO shut down. Otherwise, he'd be out and about. Still going to the grocery store every day, though. I told him that he needs to stay in the house. His response? "I'm 91, so I'm probably going to die soon anyway." My response? "I realize that, but I'm hoping it's not next week."
His healthy, realistic attitude toward aging is very refreshing...until it puts him at risk!
can you do some math for me here, if your dad was born in 1928 or 1929, how did you graduate UM in 1989? Is your father Charlie Chaplain?
I graduated UM in 1999. You'll never guess the decade my dad's dad was born.
Makes sense to me.
1989-1929 is 60 years.
If 1989 Grad was born when Dad was 38 and Grad started at UM at age 18, he would have graduated in 1989 at age 22.
Dad was born in 1928.
Graduated from U of M in 1949. (And, have to give my mom (of blessed memory) a "shout out," as she graduated from U of M in 1952!) They both also went to Central High School in Detroit, but didn't meet until much later.
I actually graduated in 1990, but 1989 was my "expected" graduation year. (Yes, I've been lying to all of you for all of these years.)
So, our graduation dates were 40 years apart. The math does work...for those of you keeping score at home.
March 21st, 2020 at 10:18 PM ^
I’m glad you shared that!
Sperm production begins toward the end of puberty and ends at death. Believe it or not, there are some people still alive whose fathers were Civil War veterans. Think about it.
John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S. (1841-1845), born in 1790, had two grandsons that were alive as of last August.
March 21st, 2020 at 11:43 PM ^
John Tyler, 10th president of the U.S. (1841-1845), born in 1790, had two grandsons that were alive as of last August.
This doesn't get nearly enough attention. Amazing.
i think i remember an old episode of "i've got a secret" in the 1950s that had his two elderly daughters on it. the panel had to try and guess who they were. they failed. those grandsons must be these daughters' children.
I wasn’t calling bullshit, Brutus, I was just interested. I guess my aside about Charlie Chaplain went right over your head. Think about it.
If he graduated in 1989 at 22, then he was born in 1967. If dad was born in 1929, his dad had him when he was 38, which isnt really that strange.
March 21st, 2020 at 10:14 PM ^
What is weird about that?
My dad was 39 (soon to be 40) when I was born and 62 when I graduated from U-M.
Just to add to this... couldn’t it also have been possible that he started at UM at a later age than typical?
My Dad likes to fish. He could be a guide. He is a former All American wrestler for Michigan. My Mom likes to cook. She is a good cook but he still coaches her. They are late 70s.
I bring my Dad bait and tackle and my Mom food to cook. I drop it off. We talk outside but stay apart. She cries because we can’t hug.
I am mostly concerned for them. I am also concerned about how we are all dealing with this. We are all on the same team.
Thank you. I'm in the same situation and very worried about my folks. Wishing the best to you and your family, and appreciate all of your sentiments here.
Our dads would probably like each other! My dad was on the wrestling team but ended up being the student manager due to his lack of skills. He is also an avid fisherman.
Sorry to you and your family for how difficult the experience has been. I can only imagine what my mother's mental state would be like right now (she passed away three years ago).
This is going to be really tough for the elderly. There is more fear and more loneliness and isolation.
March 21st, 2020 at 10:53 PM ^
I get the flu shot every year so I'm not the one who kills my 80-year-old mother-in-law. Who's great, even with dementia--so we're more than a little concerned.
My family tends to live forever or die relatively young. Both my parents died in their early sixties; I had two great-grand-parents live to be over 100 and one grand-parent who nearly got there (and all the rest of them made it to 80+ despite smoking heavily).
Wife and I got a golden retriever puppy today for our 4-year-old. We’re sick in the head. Kid absolutely adores him though.
That's adorable.
Theyre cancer factories, but great dogs otherwise. Congrats.
They're cancer factories
Yes... 7 of 10 will die of cancer now... huge national study of 3,500 goldens is going on now to try and combat it.
I lost my three goldens at 4(!), 9(still way too young), & 10 to cancer. Won't own another... I have an Irish setter now instead.
Not to shit all over the OPs parade though... enjoy the dog. Hope it works out for you! Prior to 1 year old is really the best age -- you're not sick, just enjoy how playful they are.
Yes. As I've stated, wife is a DVM. So every time I say "let's get a dog" Dr Brutus has to tell me all the things that could go wrong with it?
Horse? ....can tell my daughter loves hers as a result of an absence of complaints regarding the responsibilities and every day chores.
We have a chocolate lab who will be 13 in May. Anything I should be aware of?
I can only go based on dinner table conversations.
Yes, labs love to eat anything and everything. I.e. foreign body surgery galore. In fact I'm pretty sure the only reason we could afford our family's vacation to Disney World a couple of years ago was thanks to a bra my wife pulled out of a 6 year black lab's upper intestines.
Just enjoy the shit out of your dog now more than ever!