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Subject: [Leica] All shot up
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 13:22:06 -0800
References: <D57C7F9C-910C-43BE-9466-93D818BFA812@gmail.com> <5f7e8033-d592-b230-95cc-46b0b341ed98@iol.ie> <49F67414-2989-4007-B313-6690520010A3@frozenlight.eu>

And with all that good food you show, taste and smell would be very 
important to enjoy them. Otherwise, it is like us..... Looking at a nice 
picture of your food while munching on some Saltines.

Stay Well

Aram

On 2/27/2021 9:30 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> It is indeed a sneaky virus with quite unpredictable consequences. I 
> followed doctor?s orders and stayed off the bike for 2 weeks in January 
> but now I am back to normal. I bought an oximeter as soon as I was 
> diagnosed, as I was advised that this was the best way to check for the 
> effects. My readings have been normal throughout. I still use it daily 
> precisely because of cases like yours, Douglas.
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> The one annoying longer term effect is the loss of smell and taste. Good 
> thing I don?t work as a sommelier! My taste has more or less come back, 
> but smell is still very weak.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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>> On 28 Feb 2021, at 00:10, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Peter et al.
>> Just to clarify I would mention that in fact my case of CoVid - 10th 
>> April was the start of my isolation - was mild, extremely mild.  So much 
>> so I found it hard to believe I had the thing at all, but my doc 
>> insisted. I had only two issues at the time, a sore throat and problems 
>> with my breathing. My taste and smell were not affected, I had no fever, 
>> or indeed anything else I can remember.
>>
>> I felt much better after a few days, despite two really worrying nights 
>> with my breathing. I continued to isolate from my wife and others, and, 
>> as there were no PCR tests available due to lack of re-agents to give me 
>> a yea or nay, I even went out on solitary photo walks masked and glassed 
>> while staying well away from other pedestrians. However, the sore throat 
>> never really went away. It waxed and waned, but my breathing improved 
>> over time even though it never seemed to be quite the way it had been.
>>
>> However, after a couple of relapses in late May and July, I got a really 
>> bad protracted belt in September with other issues including vestibular 
>> problems and deafness as well. So much so, I thought maybe I had been 
>> reinfected, and maybe I was (Do they know yet? Are Long CoVid people just 
>> hyper infectable?). After a further escalation in January, my doc 
>> referred me to one to the top men in Ireland. He had a battery of tests 
>> done on me, and got previous MRIs and CT scans from my cardiologist and 
>> ENT guy and as I mentioned, I'm starting rehab shortly.
>>
>> Apparently, this thing, in addition to any of a selection of 170 
>> different symptoms, can kick off previous health issues once again, so 
>> the key thing is to baby yourself in recovery, and don't put yourself 
>> under pressure.  A study in Germany found that 78% of milder cases of 
>> CoVid had ongoing heart problems triggered. My own cardiologist is also 
>> seeing a lot of similar problems among his patients, including my own. So 
>> the last thing you need to do is give yourself a heart attack! In fact, 
>> any of you who have had CoVid on this list should really get a cardiac 
>> MRI based on that sort of figure. Howard R may disagree with me :-)
>>
>> When we get our chance of vaccination, I'm grabbing it with both arms!
>>
>> Douglas
>> PS my youngest (in his 20s) got CoVid (UK mutant) with all the typical 
>> bells and whistles - fever, cough, loss of taste and smell, breathing 
>> issues, etc. in January and is still not quite right. His oximeter 
>> readings are still low. Of course being young he's trying to get back 
>> running and cycling which is mad. Hopefully, he'll listen to sense.
>>
>> On 26/02/2021 20:46, Peter Klein via LUG wrote:
>>> Brian, I?m horrified to hear what happened to you and Victoria. This is 
>>> the first time I?ve heard of someone catching COVID at a vaccination. 
>>> Heal well!  Ditto to you, Douglas.  And I'm so glad that those of you 
>>> who got mild cases are OK.
>>>
>>> We received our second shot (Pfizer) on Wednesday. Swedish Hospital set 
>>> up a clinic in a big ballroom at a local university. We wore double 
>>> masks. There were armies of volunteers checking everyone in, taking 
>>> temperatures, directing us to hand sanitizer stations, doing paperwork, 
>>> etc. The 15 minute waiting area after the shot had chairs spaced 6 feet 
>>> apart. Everyone was masked, some of the workers also had face shields or 
>>> safety goggles.  They seemed to be doing it right, and we were very 
>>> impressed.
>>>
>>> After the first dose, both of us were very tired for a day, and had 
>>> low-grade headaches. Second dose after effects were stronger. By the 
>>> evening, we both got progressively more tired and achy.  The next day we 
>>> both had strong, flu-like muscle aches everywhere, and didn?t want to do 
>>> nothing, nohow. That began to diminish by bedtime.  Today we feel much 
>>> better, but still very tired.
>>>
>>> --Peter, dictating to my iPad
>>> (If it misconstrues, please excuse)
>>>
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-- 
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
would ever have dared dream.?   James D. Watson



In reply to: Message from boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] All shot up)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] All shot up)
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