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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 2:39 AM
Was soggy when I went out but dry now and the sun is out.
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 3:00 AM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Haven't really felt myself for a few days, so I've stayed out of the Garden...
It's been a ROUGH week.
Pretty sure I swallowed myself some pretty toxic bacteria on Monday. I woke up to about 2% water pressure in my house and it took about 15 minutes to fill my coffee pot. I was going to get some tools out of the garage to detach a water meter that was recently installed that I thought might have had some blockage, but saw the whole city lined up on my street. The pipes busted in the street in about 6 places and my frontage looked like footage from the BP oil spill. All that reclaimed water just rushing out and right back down into the sewer system.
To my surprise, by the time I'd gotten back home that night the problem was fixed, but we had a "Don't drink the water until further notice" in place. It was only then that it occured to me that I'd drank an entire pot of coffee that was brewed from whatever Lovecraftian Horror that came out of the tap that morning. Oh well. I felt fine. No harm, no foul.
That was until I woke up very early Tuesday morning to go to the bathroom...
When I stood up I immediately had vertigo, and right before the throbbing head pain came on I was induced with the worst chills I'd ever experience in my life... in a house that was in the mid 70 degrees. I put on a hoodie and sweat pants and spent the next 24 hours under two blankets, writhing in misery from the pain that seemed to be everywhere all at once, but most notably the ceaseless throbbing pain in my head. I never knew what a headache was until that night. I finally knew the fever broke after I woke up early Wednesday morning and my clothes were saturated in sweat.
And that's when I remember the delusions. I was confident I had cancer. At one point, I was even convinced that somebody had purposefully poisoned the water and was trying to kill me. Obviously the latter is ridiculous. Hopefully the former is as well.
Wednesday wasn't great, but after what I went through on Tuesday anything felt amazing. Joint pain was still around, and my skin was super sensitive all over and mildy hurt to the touch. Especially on my head and my back. Even today, I still have slight sensitivity on the skin of my lower back.
There was never any coughing at all. Some mucus buildup from Wednesday onward, but nothing I'm concerned about. Appetite has been almost non existant for days, although I haven't had a problem forcing myself to eat.
Wednesday night through last night was almost a turn for the worse in a way though since I was seriously backed up. It was to the point that I had to take shallow breaths because it hurt to take deep ones with all that pressure in the abdomen. I barely got any sleep for about 36 hours because of the discomfort.
That's not a problem today though. More in line with what you would expect from a bacterial infection, I've had an appointment with Mr. John about a half dozen times so far this morning.
Let's just say that I'm not really finding much joy out of today either, but at least most of my strength seems to be back, the dizziness is gone, most of the pain is gone, and it seems like my body is finally ready to exorcise whatever is left of the unknown microscopic demons that possessed me through that foul batch of coffee.
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I haven't seen this until now. Sometimes I just don't scroll up.
Wow, you must have gotten one giant innoculation with some unfriendly organism! I would be on the lookout for parasites if you have continuing problems. But it does sound bacterial.
Fever headaches, ugh! They're the worst!
How are you now?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:52 AM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I haven't seen this until now. Sometimes I just don't scroll up.
Wow, you must have gotten one giant innoculation with some unfriendly organism! I would be on the lookout for parasites if you have continuing problems. But it does sound bacterial.
Fever headaches, ugh! They're the worst!
How are you now?
I'm still getting better. All of the pain is gone, if you don't count whatever I'm going through from spending the large majority of the last 5 days laying down as related.
My appetite is still non-existent, but after that first or second day that the fever broke I haven't had any problems forcing myself to eat. It's weird going five whole days without ever feeling hungry at all though. But maybe it's not because of the illness anymore. I haven't actually DONE anything for days, so I probably don't even need to be eating as much as I have been.
I'm sleeping more than I should be. But I guess I still need it. I still feel a little weak, and if I do try to exert myself too much I feel as though my heart is pumping more than it should be. The worst thing is how my thighs feel all Charlie Horse like when I'm standing up, as if I'm dehydrated. I've drank more water this last week than any 3 weeks combined since I lost that overnight job back in 2019 and I'm still suffering from dehydration symptoms.
The scariest thing of the whole episode was the irrational thoughts that I was plagued with during the first 24 hours. I've never experienced anything like that. It was like a little window into what it's like to start losing your mind. I'm so glad that stopped the moment the fever broke.
The second scariest thing was the headache. When I get the flu I usually have some minor head discomfort, but this was the worst headache I'd ever had multiplied by 10. Just thinking about it now makes me remember that I was also convinced I was having a brain hemorrhage like my brother did and that the pain was from the blood pushing against my brain.
I wish this happened in the winter instead of the middle of summer. I've got so much to do, and after so much work being done the last 6 weeks in super hot temperatures, I just missed out on an entire week of low 70 to low 80 degrees. By the time I'm back to normal it's back up in the 90's again.
Drat.
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 12:18 PM
SIX, in addition to losing water you probably lost a great deal of sodium and potassium.
Get more salt. Make sure that during the day for the next few days you have at least a half measuring teaspoon of salt.
Or you could do an oral rehydration solution
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Additionally, sodium needs glucose in order to be properly absorbed. This is why ORS contains both glucose and sodium.
https://www.healthline.com/health/oral-rehydration-solutionPreparing 1 (one) Litre solution using Salt, Sugar and Water at Home Mix an oral rehydration solution using the following recipe. Ingredients:
Six (6) level teaspoons of Sugar
Half (1/2) level teaspoon of Salt
One Litre of clean drinking or boiled water and then cooled - 5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.).
You'll also need to replace potassium. Orange juice, melons, raisins, dates etc are all high in potassium.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-rich-in-potassium
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:59 PM
Thanks for the tips. 
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 10:45 PM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Thanks for the tips.
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There are a number of possible symptoms of dehydration (depending on age sex etc) but include
High heart rate. This is your heart trying to make up for low blood volume. There are a few other common causes for high heart rate including CURRENT fever, exertion, anxiety, pain, too much coffee ... but when I see someone with a high or unsteady heart rate who doesn''t have a current fever and none of the other possible causes apply, the first thing I think of is dehydration. It's a reliable indicator in adults.
Postural hypotension i.e wooziness when standing up. That's low blood volume, again. (You stand up, but your blood supply doesn't!)
Low grade headache. Not the monster headache you got from fever, tho.
Infrequent urination.
Feeling of fatigue, weakness. I've seen that more with low sodium (salt) but it also applies.
Sleepiness, drowsiness, confusion.
Flaccid skin on the back of the hand. Ususally, if you pinch up some skin lengthwise (in the direction from fingers to wrist, NOT parallel to the knuckles) and you let it go, it's quite elastic and immediately pulls back down. But if your skin has lost water the crease remains for more than a couple of seconds on the back of your hand. (That doesn't apply to old farts like me whose skin has lost collagen.)
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When people present with dehydration in urgent care/ER they usually just stick a liter (or two) of normal saline (0.9% sodium chloride in water) in a vein. But finding a good vein on a dehydrated person can be difficult! Much easier to DIY and increase your salt along with water.
Keeping drinking and salting your food until you pee, and then ... drink and salt some more! If your symptoms persist ...
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Call your family doctor if you or a loved one:
Has had diarrhea for 24 hours or more
Is irritable or disoriented and much sleepier or less active than usual
Can't keep down fluids
Has bloody or black stool
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dehydration/symptoms-ca
uses/syc-20354086
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When people get an infection, the immune system ramps up and and starts creating a numbr of chemicals called cytokines. There are a lot of different cytokines, and they do different things.
Some of them give you a fever by messing with your internal thermostat, telling your thermostat you're too cold so your heat conservation/ production goes into overdrive. That's the weird thing about fevers- you feel COLDEST when your temperature is going UP. Cause (feeling cold) and effect (shutting down surface circulation, burrowing under covers, shivering and jacking up metabolism being activated).
Some cause inflammation at the site of infection- increased circulation and leaky capillaries. (There's actually a benefit to that- it allows your white blood cells out of your capillaries and into the infected tissue where they can fight the invader.) That's what causes localized redness, swelling, and pain. eg if you have a bladder infection your bladder will hurt and may leak blood. A cut will turn red, puffy and sore. Your intestines will do the same, only you can't see it.
Other cytokines give you joint aches and pains.
Others give you a fever headache.
Others mess with your mentation. People with high fever often hallucinate. BUT, people can hallucinate WITHOUT a fever. (For me, when I start to get sick things start looking unreal, like a stage production.)
About those changes in mental state: When you're old, often a sudden change in alertness and orientation (knowing who, where, and when you are) is the ONLY sign of infection bc old people sometimes don't develop pain at the site (eg toothache, bladder pain) and fever, they just suddenly decline mentally. You might want to keep that in mind for your gran and older relatives: If they suddenly get loopy an
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Sunday, July 17, 2022 11:33 PM
Just a Sunday around me.
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Monday, July 18, 2022 12:09 AM
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Just a Sunday around me.
Have a good one.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Monday, July 18, 2022 8:13 AM
Hih.
I discovered a beehive in our wood hutch. Need to call a beekeeper for removal. Fortunately, they seem pretty mellow.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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