RL Peeves
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@TNP I hope you feel better soon.
I was pretty surprised by how little I reacted to the bivalent booster / flu combo. I felt fine, overall, although the local reaction / swelling on BOTH has been markedly more pronounced than it usually is for me.
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@Tez The third booster did nothing to me. The forth one took 12 hours out of my life.
I think for relatively healthy people Omicron is probably not dangerous (or that’s my understanding of it) but a couple of my - vaccinated - friends did get Covid-19 and did not have a good time, either.
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I think for relatively healthy people Omicron is probably not dangerous (or that’s my understanding of it) but a couple of my - vaccinated - friends did get Covid-19 and did not have a good time, either.
Vaccine 1: almost no reaction.
Vaccine 2: 4 days of misery.
Booster 1: Fluish for a day.
2 months later: Covid. Sick as a dog for 2 weeks. But never affected my breathing so never in danger of going to the hospital. They all did their job.
Now booster 2. Hopefully a replay of booster 1.Never catching Covid again would be nice but if it keeps me out of the hospital, it’s all worth it.
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@TNP For sure, 100%.
For me the biggest risk (other than for elderly or immune-compromised people, of course) is in the long-term consequences.
There are no studies of that yet for obvious reasons but there are reports of lung scar tissue and side-effects that persist well after the symptoms are over.
What will this shit do to us twenty years down the line?
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Additionally, there are some preliminary studies that suggest serious deficits in cognition (Hawke et al., 2022) and in memory formation and retrieval (Guo et al., 2022) with long COVID.
Serious stuff all around.
References:
Guo, P., Benito Ballesteros, A., Yeung, S. P., Liu, R., Saha, A., Curtis, L., Kaser, M., Haggard, M. P., & Cheke, L. G. (2022). COVCOG 2: Cognitive and Memory Deficits in Long COVID: A Second Publication From the COVID and Cognition Study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.804937
Hawke, L. D., Nguyen, A. T. P., Ski, C. F., Thompson, D. R., Ma, C., & Castle, D. (2022). Interventions for mental health, cognition, and psychological wellbeing in long COVID: a systematic review of registered trials. Psychological Medicine, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291722002203
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@Pavel The scientist in me really appreciates the fact that you cited sources.
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There are doubtlessly things that are sadder than patient in a dementia ward talking about how their family is coming to pick them up, but I can’t think of one off the top of my head.
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Hubby brought covid home as a souvenir from his biz trip. I dont have it yet but I feel like crap on a cracker that got run over by a semi.
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Since school started I feel like I have caught every bug that I managed to avoid last year. First some kind of stomach bug that had us at the children’s hospital for hours fearing appendicitis in the youngest, but at least when it hit the oldest we were like ‘just throw up a bunch you’ll be fine,’ then I had some kind of flu-like thing (not Covid according to all the tests I did but oof), now I’ve got a head cold. All one right after the other.
I guess I could also blame my commute, since we have to show up in the office two days a week even though we can all clearly do our jobs from home.
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And apparently the main pump for our well is down. So on top of everything else I have minimally running water plus since we have a flash heater that also means pretty much no hot water. And of course I canceled the Y membership a few months ago bc nobody was using it. Covid in the house, I feel like crap, juggling a lot of important kid appts solo with the spectre of cancelation if kiddo or I get sick (so far so good, we test daily), peri periods fucking suck and now no hot shower either. I mean this could def be worse but COME ON.
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Adding to the above since that post: car issues, lingering covid fever which means isolation extension potentially, losing the appt that we have waited for 10 months for (neuropsych office has very strict protocols including no appointments if a household member has covid, which i support but also have been crying about off and on for the last 12 hours and I think maybe its out of my system, but also realizing if I get sick now we will lose the reschedule as well), losing one of my appointments that I’ve been waiting 6 months for, for me with rescheduling now 3 months away, still feeling ill (not covid), and trying to keep everything going plus emotional support long distance for a kidult and keeping a neurodivergent kiddo at home on an even keel after 2 weeks of pretty major upheaval. Emergency call in to work.
I’m exhausted physically and emotionally and mentally.
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I have very minor surgery tomorrow to fix a deviated septum. My anxiety brain will not stop spinning around that somehow, I will totally die under anesthesia.
This post, too, is a manifestation of that anxiety. I feel the need to tell people so if I vanish off of the internet, they won’t question why.
Fuck anxiety.
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@Solstice I did the same thing when I had my biopsy in June. I knew I would probably be fine but there were all these warnings about bleeding and so my anxiety was like, “So what if we just bleed to death?” Anxiety is a real big jerk.
Best of luck on the surgery! I am manifesting that it is going to go great and you will heal like Wolverine afterward.
lol lmao
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@Solstice It’s not the same at all, but I still get mild anxiety when I have to go into my dentist. Most recently I had to get a de-scaling done. Which is something I do no recommend. You would think that a water pick would be a lot better to get your teeth cleaned with than that hooked pick they use to scrap shit off with.
Nope, it’s worse. Only this is water and high vibrations. It’s fine…unless it hits your gums. Then it sucks.
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Oh gosh, thanks. That’s the coolest well-wishing I’ve received. I shall Wolverine the hell out of it.
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My mentee is stressed af and not coping well with the stress of being the teacher. She is taking it out on others and I’m taking it personally that I can’t mentor that out of her.
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I have very minor surgery tomorrow to fix a deviated septum. My anxiety brain will not stop spinning around that somehow, I will totally die under anesthesia.
This post, too, is a manifestation of that anxiety. I feel the need to tell people so if I vanish off of the internet, they won’t question why.
Fuck anxiety.
I did not die. Imagine that, anxiety.
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@Solstice Anxiety is wrong again!
Glad you came through. Now get on that Wolverine healing.
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I think this is more than a peeve, but I need to vent.
We are a $1k short for the wedding. There were expenses that neither of us foresaw, and when I came home early today, I came home to a sobbing fiance, which I was worried because I thought she was hurt or something happened or someone had died. Thankfully, none of these things happened.
We’re seven days out from the wedding and she just did an accounting of our financials, as she’s the money-holder in the family because she has a head for math and I just kind of derp around with numbers(usually I just ask how much I need to drop into the joint account and then do it). Neither of us were aware of the expenditures that had been sneaking up on us. We thought we had everything we need to pay for paid for, but instead we have found out we were wrong on that one.
I’m just…mad. We’ve been struggling for the last year and a half to make sure this wedding as low-cost as we could. I had to fight on certain things because I didn’t feel that we needed them, that they just would’ve been nice.
I wish I could make more coherent words on this, but I’m just so goddamn upset. Not at her, not at anyone. I think that’s the worst part of it honestly. That even when you strive to not leave a massive footprint, a small amount of people(45 guests to be specific), an amazingly cheap wedding site and reception site, that we’re still far over the $10k cost that we had tried to keep it under.
I just feel defeated today.
I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021
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Gofundme please? We all need to get you a wedding present, anyway.
