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The last few days I have been hit with an awful upper respitory/sinus infection that is going around here in NE Ohio. A few folks had it in the office had it and spread it around. Thanks. I don't recall ever being so sick or in such discomfort . It started with hot cold spells, fever and aches, and a wet cough in the lungs. Now it has moved into the sinuses with a mind blowing headache. The stuff coming out of my nostrils looks like some bloody bio hazzard from "Outbreak". I have been off work three days now. Doc has me on strong anti-biotics but it is a slow recovery. Hope nobody else here catches this thing

That sucks David-get well soon!
My team laughs at me for wearing a toboggan and gloves throughout the winter-when I tell them that "using this practice, I've only missed three days of work due to illness in 20 years..." then they go OH Really? Durr...
Gary

The worst part about being really sick, is that you get time off work....then can't do the really important stuff, like work on our M's!

Get Well

HingsingM37 wrote:The last few days I have been hit with an awful upper respitory/sinus infection that is going around here in NE Ohio...Hope nobody else here catches this thing

TOO LATE! My wife brought it home from work, and I've been dealing with it for two weeks, now. I've coughed so hard and so much that it feels as though I've cracked a rib. Having my immune system medically shut down hasn't helped any, either. I've heard from friends back in Illinois who say that it's spreading like wildfire up there, too. It's almost impossible to wipe it out, 'cuz the kids keep "recirculating" it through the school system. One kid gives it to another and then gets well. The second kid does the same thing. The third kid gives it to the first kid again, and he takes it home to his brothers, sisters, and parents. It seems to be a nationwide epidemic. Hopefully, summer will cure it if nothing else does. Right now, count yourself very lucky if you haven't caught it yet. It's really nasty!

Cal_Gary wrote:That sucks David-get well soon!
My team laughs at me for wearing a toboggan and gloves throughout the winter-when I tell them that "using this practice, I've only missed three days of work due to illness in 20 years..." then they go OH Really? Durr...
Gary

Might be just a language barrier between upper and lower N. America, but how does one wear a toboggan? Up here, we usually sit on one, then go screaming down a snow covered hill with zero control, until bouncing off tree's brings the stupid thing to a halt...

Unless you're refering to that beloved knitted head covering with the bobble on the top usually called a toque?

I was wondering the same thing. So its a term south of Connecticut.

Thanks for the well wishes guys. I am going to go into work today.
Lifer, get well soon.
Carl, I saw your resto video on youtube yesterday. Nice work.
I also came across this which stars mine and alot of our trucks from the website:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqO6j0gz ... ature=fvwp

Nice work other than he mistakenly put in a WC in one frame

How about those WCs with car bodies on them? Weird!

Well, I could have said "me bonnet" then I'd be from jolly ol england

I missed 8 days, the doc put me on tamiflu for 5 days as well as some expectorant!! His biggest worry was it turning into pneumonia?

Hingsing,
Just wondering how your feeling after your day at work?

m-37Bruce wrote:I missed 8 days, the doc put me on tamiflu for 5 days as well as some expectorant!! His biggest worry was it turning into pneumonia?

Remember what I said about my immune system being shut down on purpose. Then consider the fact that a simple cold can turn into pneumonia in nothing flat. I welcome that! Pneumonia is curable...a cold isn't. I've been hospitalized for pneumonia 3 times in the last 5 years and at the moment, I'm almost to the point of wishing that whatever this is would turn into pneumonia. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be life-threatening. It just likes to make you miserable for an indefinate period of time.

I had a flu shot 16-17 years ago, got sick as a double-dog, swore I'd never get another one! Now it looks like I'll start again, the doc did say the shot was not for this new strain of flu, go figure?
Charles, David, Gerry, Gary, Carl & Master Yota, we all gotta start taking better care of ourselves, "Life Is Too Short"!

From the other side of the spectrum, I'd actually like to get sick, as I haven't had a cold in years; not for lack of trying though, sneakers and light coats in the winter, laying on cold concrete floors working on the M, and whatever other silly things that are done out of habit... I seem to have gotten the gold standard for an immunity system. I'm not complaining, but it would be nice to have an excuse every once in a while! Some sympathy and attention from the wife would feel good too!

My main health issue is Myasthenia Gravis...a form of muscular dystrophy. My immune system was so "good" that it was targeting my nerve endings as "invadiners" and attacking them. In order to keep that from happening, the doctors had to shut my immune system down. They warned me that I would be susceptible to every bug that came down the pike from that day onward. Prior to that, I never missed a day of work due to illness (except maybe a case or two of self-induced "Budweiser flu." ).