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PSM · 04-19-2020, 20:54

After hearing one of the 'survivors' of the virus who met with the President last week, it's possible that I may have had it. I never get sick. Really. The last time I had the seasonal flu was 1971. I got mild colds when my wife was substitute teaching for a couple of years.

About the time this broke, and roughly the time I pooh-pooed mugwump's post about it, I woke up one morning feeling achy, chilled, and had a loss of apatite. I have no idea if I had a temperature because I never felt the need to check it. This lasted about 3 days. This is exactly what the guy with the President described. I rarely come into close contact with others but my wife does so, if I did get it, I got it from her. She had no symptoms at all. It would be nice if we could get tested just to find out since I'm almost 70 with slightly high blood pressure and, reportedly, in the target zone.

ETA: I left out the cough! I would cough so hard that I almost threw up twice and got light-headed once to the point of having to lie down. There was a slight tightness in my chest but I chalk that up to the coughing. I slept well but my wife asked me one night if I got any sleep at all do to my coughing all night. It didn't wake me at all.

04-19-2020, 20:54	#876
PSM Area Commander Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cochise Co., AZ Posts: 6,206	After hearing one of the 'survivors' of the virus who met with the President last week, it's possible that I may have had it. I never get sick. Really. The last time I had the seasonal flu was 1971. I got mild colds when my wife was substitute teaching for a couple of years. About the time this broke, and roughly the time I pooh-pooed mugwump's post about it, I woke up one morning feeling achy, chilled, and had a loss of apatite. I have no idea if I had a temperature because I never felt the need to check it. This lasted about 3 days. This is exactly what the guy with the President described. I rarely come into close contact with others but my wife does so, if I did get it, I got it from her. She had no symptoms at all. It would be nice if we could get tested just to find out since I'm almost 70 with slightly high blood pressure and, reportedly, in the target zone. ETA: I left out the cough! I would cough so hard that I almost threw up twice and got light-headed once to the point of having to lie down. There was a slight tightness in my chest but I chalk that up to the coughing. I slept well but my wife asked me one night if I got any sleep at all do to my coughing all night. It didn't wake me at all. __________________ "Hector Lives!" "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass "The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -- Dennis Prager "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H.L. Mencken Last edited by PSM; 04-20-2020 at 10:30.
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