Couch 250: An August Couch

Jersey 4 · Aug 10, 2024 at 09:18 PM

Stopdog must keep the smoker a reasonable distance from the nursing home. I will impose licensing guidelines so you all have a place to live.

unaluna · Aug 11, 2024 at 12:16 AM

You know shes cooking bad people back there, right? Or did y'all miss that nuance in the movie when the husband "up and left?"

LostOnTheTrail · Aug 11, 2024 at 05:53 AM

Couch Workout Club day 13

Walked around the park to get my steps in.

Jersey 4 · Aug 11, 2024 at 07:32 AM

I’m fighting a little bug. Took some Mucinex DM last night which should have knocked me out but it did the opposite. I couldn’t slow down and fall asleep last night to save my life and now I’m in some sort of drowsy nausiated stupor this AM. It wasn’t a good weekend to catch a bug because I have to be in work by 6am both Monday and Tuesday. Hopefully tonight I sleep.

LostOnTheTrail · Aug 11, 2024 at 07:58 AM

I'm sorry Jersey, that sucks.

I hope you can get some rest.

Jersey 4 · Aug 11, 2024 at 08:37 AM

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I'm sorry Jersey, that sucks.

I hope you can get some rest.

Thank you Lost. Maybe some couch folks have a quick remedy.

LonesomeTonight · Aug 11, 2024 at 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Jersey 4

I’m fighting a little bug. Took some Mucinex DM last night which should have knocked me out but it did the opposite. I couldn’t slow down and fall asleep last night to save my life and now I’m in some sort of drowsy nausiated stupor this AM. It wasn’t a good weekend to catch a bug because I have to be in work by 6am both Monday and Tuesday. Hopefully tonight I sleep.

Ugh, sorry you're sick and didn't get sleep. Maybe something in the Mucinex had the opposite effect on you? I know Benadryl can do that for some people. Hope you're able to sleep tonight and feel better soon!

Jersey 4 · Aug 11, 2024 at 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight

Ugh, sorry you're sick and didn't get sleep. Maybe something in the Mucinex had the opposite effect on you? I know Benadryl can do that for some people. Hope you're able to sleep tonight and feel better soon!

Thanks LT. I should have known better. Benadryl and NyQuil do that so I’m not surprised it happened with the Musinex. I thought it had a different ingredient than the others.

stopdog · Aug 11, 2024 at 10:32 AM

1. good lord

2. about colds - I have recently been with 7 people who originally thought it was just summer colds (I went camping and 4 tested and since I got back - my partner has tested positive and 2 other unrelated people) who thought they had colds but it was covid - if that matters to you.

Jersey 4 · Aug 11, 2024 at 10:36 AM

SD..I wasn’t entertaining the idea of Covid but I guess I better check.

unaluna · Aug 11, 2024 at 11:35 AM

So i wonder if for the past 100 years, whenever we got a cold, it was really the Spanish flu lingering on?

ChickenNoodleSoup · Aug 11, 2024 at 12:01 PM

The influenca (flu) virus has adapted for the last 100 plus years, if you get the flu today, you get a genetic variation of the spanish flu. However, different viruses have different impacts on your body. A cold is not like a flu is not like pneumonia and so on.

Edit: covid is scary because it is like SARS, it has lots of nasty side effects.

Jersey 4 · Aug 11, 2024 at 12:04 PM

I have covid once and slept for 5 days straight.

ChickenNoodleSoup · Aug 11, 2024 at 12:04 PM

I feel like people have wiped covid from their mind somewhat. I get it, but if you are ill with it, there is a non-diminishing chance of it going to be a bad illness burdening you for life. Kind of weird to me how society treats it.

unaluna · 03:28 PM

Thanks CNS!

But you are the antidote for all!

Now i want to learn more.

DUDES!!! I JUST SAW THIS ON MEDPAGETODAY.COM

Fauci: It is entirely conceivable that what we call the common cold coronaviruses now, eons ago came out in a pandemic form and did a lot more damage than the seasonal kind of common cold coronaviruses did.

Dont doubt the luna.

ETA - ok, way prehistoric pandemic are current colds, is what he said.

So isnt it interestjng that current dinosaur ie chicken soup is the antidote for an ancient illness?

sweepy62 · Aug 11, 2024 at 04:07 PM

Sorry to hear that stopdog . I had covid 2 years ago.

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sweepy62 · Aug 11, 2024 at 04:20 PM

I drink a lot of herbal teas which work great for me. Now I'm battling insomnia. Anything with whatever benefryl has in it which is most sleep aids make me hyper. I drink herbal teas I meditate . I have this app called better sleep but not a lot of change.

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LonesomeTonight · Aug 11, 2024 at 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup

I feel like people have wiped covid from their mind somewhat. I get it, but if you are ill with it, there is a non-diminishing chance of it going to be a bad illness burdening you for life. Kind of weird to me how society treats it.

Agreed. A U.S. runner competed in a race in the Olympics 2 days after he tested positive. He collapsed at the end and needed some help. He seemed proud that he still got bronze (he was favored for gold), but all I could think was how selfish he was. He was hugging and up close to other athletes there. Had a mask on later, but still. They had no Covid protocols for the Paris games, which just seemed wrong.

My H had it a couple months ago. I was a bit ill then, but never tested positive (it took him about 5 days after he first started feeling ill to test positive, too). So unsure if I possibly had it? (I had it in May 2023, but managed to keep H and D from getting it via masking, isolation, and air purifiers/open windows).

I feel we have to be careful because my mother-in-law has multiple conditions that put her at high-risk, and she tends to watch my D once a week.

Hope it's not Covid, Jersey!

LonesomeTonight · Aug 11, 2024 at 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

1. good lord

2. about colds - I have recently been with 7 people who originally thought it was just summer colds (I went camping and 4 tested and since I got back - my partner has tested positive and 2 other unrelated people) who thought they had colds but it was covid - if that matters to you.

Hope you stay healthy SD and that your partner feels better soon.

ScarletPimpernel · Aug 11, 2024 at 05:03 PM

L had it last week. We had to miss our in-person.

I'm surprised I didn't get it because I gave her a hug the day before she tested positive.

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Jersey 4 Poohbah Member Since Feb 2019 Location: NJ Posts: 1,354 5 1,298 hugs given	Aug 10, 2024 at 09:18 PM #21 Stopdog must keep the smoker a reasonable distance from the nursing home. I will impose licensing guidelines so you all have a place to live.
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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,945 (SuperPoster!) 13 68.9k hugs given	Aug 11, 2024 at 12:16 AM #22 You know shes cooking bad people back there, right? Or did y'all miss that nuance in the movie when the husband "up and left?"
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Jersey 4 Poohbah Member Since Feb 2019 Location: NJ Posts: 1,354 5 1,298 hugs given	Aug 11, 2024 at 10:36 AM #30 SD..I wasn’t entertaining the idea of Covid but I guess I better check.
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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,945 (SuperPoster!) 13 68.9k hugs given	Aug 11, 2024 at 11:35 AM #31 So i wonder if for the past 100 years, whenever we got a cold, it was really the Spanish flu lingering on?
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ChickenNoodleSoup Grand Poohbah Member Since Apr 2017 Location: In a land far far away Posts: 1,649 7 1,336 hugs given	Aug 11, 2024 at 12:01 PM #32 The influenca (flu) virus has adapted for the last 100 plus years, if you get the flu today, you get a genetic variation of the spanish flu. However, different viruses have different impacts on your body. A cold is not like a flu is not like pneumonia and so on. Edit: covid is scary because it is like SARS, it has lots of nasty side effects.
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Jersey 4 Poohbah Member Since Feb 2019 Location: NJ Posts: 1,354 5 1,298 hugs given	Aug 11, 2024 at 12:04 PM #33 I have covid once and slept for 5 days straight.
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ChickenNoodleSoup Grand Poohbah Member Since Apr 2017 Location: In a land far far away Posts: 1,649 7 1,336 hugs given	Aug 11, 2024 at 12:04 PM #34 I feel like people have wiped covid from their mind somewhat. I get it, but if you are ill with it, there is a non-diminishing chance of it going to be a bad illness burdening you for life. Kind of weird to me how society treats it.
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ScarletPimpernel Wise Elder Member Since Nov 2013 Location: US Posts: 8,738 (SuperPoster!) 11 7,250 hugs given	Aug 11, 2024 at 05:03 PM #40 L had it last week. We had to miss our in-person. I'm surprised I didn't get it because I gave her a hug the day before she tested positive. __________________ "Odium became your opium..." ~Epica
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