Off Topic Corona virus

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Eireleeds1 said:
Exactly. Every sports fan wants their pet sport to start up whether it’s football rugby golf or whatever. Totally understandable. But if we’re to criticise Cheltenham and the havoc it caused, we must realise other sports won’t happen either. Governments can’t be seen to make exceptions for one and not another
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Not comparable - Cheltenham was a free for all, sport will resume with guidelines and safety procedures.
 
Whitejock said:
Thanks for that, matey. Glad you appear to have pulled through (or do you think you're still at risk?). Most interesting to read a personal account.

For the last week to ten days or so so I've been really struggling with fatigue & aching muscles. I have bouts of being freezing cold when everyone else is roasting, & vice versa. I'm so hoping it's caused by one of millions of other things it could be, but it doesn't stop you wondering.

Fortunately though, I have a focus that takes my mind off it - my fcuking frozen shoulder is acting up bigtime for the first time in years, so much so that my kinky painkillers are fcuking useless. Still here though, & fingers crossed. :)

Take care & stay safe!
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Thanks for the good wishes.

Frozen shoulder is a horrible condition. I had it sequentially on both sides when I was in my 50s. It was bleedin' agony and it took about 3 years for each to work itself back to normal. I found that all you could do was to take painkillers when it was really bad, but I remember that sometimes it was too painful to sleep.

I didn't realize that there was a link with diabetes. I had Type 2 at the time, but in the last few years managed to get rid of it by adopting that extreme diet - 400 calories a day for several weeks. It was tough as you basically starve, but after a few weeks my blood sugar levels were in the normal range. But my doctor insists that diabetes is incurable and so will concede only that my symptoms have "resolved themselves," as though it happened by magic!

Good luck with it.
 
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ellandback said:
So glad to hear you're on the mend
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Thanks Elland. Each day is a little better than the last. But I think that my recovery would have been hastened if I could have been watching our triumphant run-in as champions en route to a well deserved and long overdue return to the Premiership!
 
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Emu said:
Thanks for that Bysshe. Did you end up in hospital? What treatment have you had? Did you get tested?

Get well soon pal!
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Thanks mate.

I managed to stay out of hospital. My wife wanted to call an ambulance on several occasions but I figured that once admitted, there was a good chance I wouldn't ever get out. I had a lot of time to think about it and came to the conclusion that if my time was up, I'd prefer to go in my own bed in the company of those whom I love most, rather than on a hospital trolley or hooked up to a ventilator surrounded by people in masks and protective gear.

In terms of medication I took a lot of paracetamol, and also used sleeping pills and melatonin to make the nights a bit more bearable. But basically stayed in bed and waited it out.

I wasn't tested because I'm not a key worker (or a member of the Royal Family!) but I am sure that it was the virus. The symptoms fit with what I have read about it and it was also different from normal `flu or other viruses that I've had over the years. It's frustrating that ordinary people can't get tested at the moment either to confirm that they have got it or that they have had it.
 
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