Glad you are back with us coffee drinkers!
I found this informative, and it matches what my daughter experienced.
Grey and snowing in Alaska—sounds like a nice December day!
It was horrible, Nick. I actually drank a few cups of.... TEA. Only did that because everything is frozen so I couldn't go scoop up a cup of ditch water
We're having a more typical winter this year after several with very low precipitation. Had a more typical(i.e. wet) summer as well.
So glad to know you and your wife are feeling better! I hope your blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal soon. Thanks for the update.
Thanks, Mike. We used to be fairly serious athletes and monitored ourselves routinely. We noticed many years ago that the first sign of colds/flu coming on was elevated pulse rate a day or two before any other symptoms would show up. Also over training would cause elevated pulse. When those indicators return to normal we'll feel confident that we're truly over it.
... That explains why I'm definitely going to seek medical help if it is ever determined that I probably have contracted the disease.
I know the "medical help" doesn't necessarily mean hospital. But up here if you show up at a hospital and are symptomatic but not life threateningly ill they will turn you away. Basically tell you to go home and take an aspirin.
...The important point is that if adequate testing was being done (it was never done in America at least according to every epidemiologist I've heard), patients that are asymptomatic would be more accurately diagnosed before the onset of symptoms. Also, patients that don't ever exhibit symptoms would be more accurately diagnosed.
Until recently Alaska exceeded the WHO/CDC recommended testing rate(i.e. positive results less than 5%) for months. It made no evident difference in infection rates. We were at the bottom of the charts until late summer when numbers started to climb. Now we're middle of the pack of US states at around 80 cases per 100k population. Our testing rate is 2-3x most states and 10x some states. It hasn't had any apparent positive impact. No doubt the scientists would love to have the data produced by more testing. Question is whether it makes any practical difference in the here and now.
Eat and sleep to help your body fight and I hope it passes wo complications. I tested positive in June and never had any symptoms
Thanks, Randy. We appear to be on the back side of it and none the worse for wear. The only problem we have with the eating and sleeping is trying to avoid too much of either
Great update. Thanks, Dan.
Thanks for commenting, Karen.