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uncle bob
Cheers all. And I probably did sound a bit Ott, but I'm allowed as I'm not thinking straight and always been a bit autistic and a bit of a worrier. Haha
Good to have you back , the first real signs of recovery for a CCMB member , is when he /she starts to freely insults others :thumbup:
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Harry Paget Flashman
A colleague of mine said told me today that her father is in hospital in Lincolnshire with it and has been taken off his ventilator so they can give it to someone with a better chance of survival. He's been moved to a private room to allow nature to take its course.
Late 60s no health issues, was perfectly well two weeks ago.
****ing hell that‘a terrible. Hoping for a miracle for them.
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Croesy Blue
****ing hell that‘a terrible. Hoping for a miracle for them.
seems very harsh why dont you report that to the press now they will run with it i'm sure and perhaps save the chap ?
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life on mars
seems very harsh why dont you report that to the press now they will run with it i'm sure and perhaps save the chap ?
What?
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life on mars
seems very harsh why dont you report that to the press now they will run with it i'm sure and perhaps save the chap ?
Eh? Are you suggesting there should be a press campaign to take the ventilator off the person who is now using it and give it back to the father of HPF's workmate?
The point of the post is that there aren't enough ventilators to meet urgent need (try writing about that!), that doctors are faced with desperate decisions about who gets the scarce and inadequate resources, and that people with generally good health and not very old (in fact some who are young) are dying of this lousy disease - not just those who are old with 'underlying health problems'!
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Hilts
Rather than waste tests on Prince feckin Charles they should test all 10 of you and compare. It may even be the 5 of the 10 have it without symptoms.
Yes, that would have been useful.
Not exactly scientific but, in a group of 10 people, 10 had covid-19, 5 had no symptoms and unwillingly may have infected others.
This is the sort of stuff that we need to know. Instead, you only get tested if you are sent to the hospital or are a member of Parliament of royalty. The scientists need data.
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delmbox
Can't wait for bobh to find out about heart transplants
OK, I've chuckled at some of your comments.
But they don't give a heart transplant to someone, then go into the recovery room a few days later and say that someone "more deserving" needs your new heart, then take it out again.
Do they ?
Eh? Eh?
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bobh
OK, I've chuckled at some of your comments.
But they don't give a heart transplant to someone, then go into the recovery room a few days later and say that someone "more deserving" needs your new heart, then take it out again.
Do they ?
Eh? Eh?
There is priority on heart transplants though. So yeah they do have to decide who lives and who dies if they have 1 heart and 2 people who need one.
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Croesy Blue
There is priority on heart transplants though. So yeah they do have to decide who lives and who dies if they have 1 heart and 2 people who need one.
True, but this thread-within-thread started when a ventilator was given to someone who needed it, then taken away.
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bobh
OK, I've chuckled at some of your comments.
But they don't give a heart transplant to someone, then go into the recovery room a few days later and say that someone "more deserving" needs your new heart, then take it out again.
Do they ?
Eh? Eh?
FINE, TRUE OK. But my point (admittedly made flippantly) was that doctors play god all the time.
And in the crisis they're in at the minute they're in an impossible position - say they've got 1 ventilator and 2 patients that need it. They've got to make a decision one way or another and they pick the fairest way possible, imagine how hard that must be.
It goes without saying that it's easy for me to say this objectively and if it was a loved one of mine I'd be screaming off the rooftops but I hope that I'd understand that there's no bad guys here, certainly not the doctors who due to a lack of equipment are having to make decisions that go against everything they've committed their lives to do.
Horrendous situation all round for everyone involved in Harry Paget's post, my heart goes out to them
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bobh
True, but this thread-within-thread started when a ventilator was given to someone who needed it, then taken away.
To be given to someone who is a higher priority. It’s not nice but that’s life.
It’s a really horrible situation though, I hate that anyone has to be in anything like that.
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Originally Posted by
Harry Paget Flashman
A colleague of mine said told me today that her father is in hospital in Lincolnshire with it and has been taken off his ventilator so they can give it to someone with a better chance of survival. He's been moved to a private room to allow nature to take its course.
Late 60s no health issues, was perfectly well two weeks ago.
That’s appalling.
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uncle bob
I'm great today thanks mate. Day 8 and finally shot of it. It was just like a strong flu. The fever was bad at night time and you can definitely feel the strain on your chest to breath.
I'm a big lad anyway at 6ft 4 and 20 stone.
I was correct at the start about the NHS website giving wrong analysis if you didn't have a temperature or a cough, they would basically just shut you down and say you haven't got it.
Look at this what they are now saying what I said.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/112695...ist-too-short/
Remind me now and then not to fall out with you, uncle bob :-)
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Taunton Blue Genie
Remind me now and then not to fall out with you, uncle bob :-)
yeah I've always liked you too unclebob :yikes:
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We've had a letter to say that someone in my dad's care home has CV. Definately no visitors and someone has lost the cordless phone for the floor he is on so cant speak to him directly. Sorting out Skype right now as they can let relatives communicate that way.
On a completely different tack, the woman staying in the apartment above us in Menorca last summer is from Bergamo. She is a journalist working for L'Eco di Bergamo (sp?), the newspaper featured by the BBC whose obituary pages went from 1.5 pages to 10 pages and then 11 pages a day. Emailed her but not heard back. Seeing military convoys taking coffins out of Bergamo, as the city cant cope with the numbers of dead, doesnt fill me with much hope.
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I heard this afternoon that someone I knew well has died of the virus. Pat was a City councillor and former Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
She never told people her age but my guess is 65-70 years old. Three days ago the local press were reporting that she was very ill but was recovering.
After all the anonymous statistics, that really brings it home!
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jon1959
I heard this afternoon that someone I knew well has died of the virus. Pat was a City councillor and former Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
She never told people her age but my guess is 65-70 years old. Three days ago the local press were reporting that she was very ill but was recovering.
After all the anonymous statistics, that really brings it home!
The good news is that my nephew's wife is recovering but the guy who lives in flat below my brother has got it.
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IanD
We've had a letter to say that someone in my dad's care home has CV. Definately no visitors and someone has lost the cordless phone for the floor he is on so cant speak to him directly. Sorting out Skype right now as they can let relatives communicate that way.
On a completely different tack, the woman staying in the apartment above us in Menorca last summer is from Bergamo. She is a journalist working for L'Eco di Bergamo (sp?), the newspaper featured by the BBC whose obituary pages went from 1.5 pages to 10 pages and then 11 pages a day. Emailed her but not heard back. Seeing military convoys taking coffins out of Bergamo, as the city cant cope with the numbers of dead, doesnt fill me with much hope.
I was meant to be in Bergamo three weeks ago for the Atalanta home game.
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Taunton Blue Genie
I was meant to be in Bergamo three weeks ago for the Atalanta home game.
I've never been and glad you didn't go. It looks a beautiful city and worth a visit when all this virus thing calms down. Terrible pictures on tv of a priest there blessing multiple coffins with no relatives in attendance. The pews were filled with pictures of the dead instead. Grim.
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Taunton Blue Genie
Remind me now and then not to fall out with you, uncle bob :-)
Uncle Bob....I think we may have met. Someone answering your description ended up on top of me at the Wembley Blackpool match during the (disallowed) goal celebrations! The bruising has long gone but the counselling continues.
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Yesterday I did a live mix on the Hippo club fb page. If you find the page you'll see Me with a hat on my head with 2 phones strapped to the hat.
These are my headphones that I made.
Then you'll see me with just one music deck, playing tunes from out my old dance music collection and a food mixer next to my deck. Everytime I came to the end of the song I'd put the food mixer on and shout out Remix! Leaving it to spin until I chucked on another tune. Funniest thing I ever done. Had a right laugh.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/7074981034?view=permalink&id=10156777393061035
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dml1954
Have you been tested to confirm it is coronavirus ? There are a lot of other things going around right now including flu, tonsillitis, stomach upsets. You could have any of them. Why would you say that the information released is incorrect - do you think that they are deliberately releasing misleading information ? The vast majority of people obviously get the main symptoms. You could be the exception but on the other hand, you might not even have it, so in those circumstances, it wound be you giving out the misleading information.
Sounds like a bad cold or flu
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stevebrickman
So - i've also been quite poorly this last week. Started off as very sore throat (which would ease after an hour or two each day), and extreme congestion. By Thursday, it was headaches, blocked ear & fatigue... I slept virtually all day Friday & Saturday. A bad cough also developed on Saturday. I'm still congested with the headaches/blocked ear/cough now - beechams are doing the trick.
I havent had a temperature at all though, and I havent had any difficulty breathing, so I doubt its Corona... but its probably one of the worst Flu bouts I have ever had...
I had sore throat, followed by a cough and headache for a week, it's not Corona though it's just a winter-type cold and cough.
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Bluebina
I had sore throat, followed by a cough and headache for a week, it's not Corona though it's just a winter-type cold and cough.
I did have an eye infection at the same time, still doubt I had it felt fine really bo fatigue or fever.
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uncle bob
I've been on here long enough you should know me. Never had a cross word with anyone, I've laughed at the flouncers etc. I'd definitely be in your camp about drama queen's.
But when there is not much information around online about facts as its a new disease, and you realise at the start that the NHS website made a huge mistake by saying you only get this virus if you show only any of these two signs, a dry cough, or a high temperature, this has since been updated, then it is naturally a worry and you hope someone with experience of it may be able to help you on here like has happened so many times in the past with little things.
I'm waffling now I'm sorry, but hopefully this thread can be a come too if people get it and write down things that may help others if your in a position to be well enough. Stay safe
Read further on now, maybe you did have it?
Glad you're better anyway
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Some expert on the BBC estimated that more than a million have had it in the UK but we'll never know because they only test you if your seriously ill in hospital, that's why the death percentage figures appear so high.
We need mass testing asap!
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The scariest part for me was eating my food and not having any taste or smell at all. Imagine a life of not being able to appreciate good tasting food. I began to think I would just as well live on chips and cheap food forever as it would be pointless paying good money for quality food if it would never be any taste.
Glad to say that it's finally coming back again the taste. Smell is still missing
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uncle bob
The scariest part for me was eating my food and not having any taste or smell at all. Imagine a life of not being able to appreciate good tasting food. I began to think I would just as well live on chips and cheap food forever as it would be pointless paying good money for quality food if it would never be any taste.
Glad to say that it's finally coming back again the taste. Smell is still missing
Be a terrible waste to have a game of Dutch Ovens then Bob!
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Bluebina
Some expert on the BBC estimated that more than a million have had it in the UK but we'll never know because they only test you if your seriously ill in hospital, that's why the death percentage figures appear so high.
We need mass testing asap!
Even if a million have it the death rate is still quite high
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This must be the lady Jon 59 posted about recently;-
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...om-coronavirus
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the other bob wilson
That's right. I was way out on her age though. But thinking back she didn't change much in appearance over the 35 years I knew her - so 82 doesn't surprise me now that I think about it. Very sad. She was hard working, totally genuine, and a real character.
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My daughter-in-law appears to have it (isolating at home - not tested but has the symptoms)
Wife of an occasional CCMB poster and mother of my 19-month old grandson.
Agonising wait to see what happens - can't do a thing to help.
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bobh
My daughter-in-law appears to have it (isolating at home - not tested but has the symptoms)
Wife of an occasional CCMB poster and mother of my 19-month old grandson.
Agonising wait to see what happens - can't do a thing to help.
I hope she recovers soon, for most people the symptoms are mild.
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If you or someone you know has it or think they have it DO NOT TAKE IBUPROFEN! DO NOT TAKE IT.
Only paracetamol. This done the trick for me. Ibuprofen makes it 100 times worse apparently.
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Croesy Blue
What are they supposed to do?
That’s the problem with the virus, so many people get it that hospitals start to struggle and doctors have to choose who lives and dies.
What do you suggest we do? Let everyone die? Or put the decision to a public vote?
Get more ventilators?
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Jimmy the Jock
Get more ventilators?
I think the Doctor would want the same but that isn't possible.
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My friend has tested positive. He's doing OK but his wife is ill in hospital. This is 27°c Brisbane so don't get your hopes up about warm weather killing the virus. Stay well.
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Brisbane CCFC
My friend has tested positive. He's doing OK but his wife is ill in hospital. This is 27°c Brisbane so don't get your hopes up about warm weather killing the virus. Stay well.
Yes true. Iran shows that as well.
Good luck to your friends family.
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Thanks. Hopefully they'll be OK. They are the first people I know to test positive. I'm guessing that it will become commonplace in the coming weeks.