How’s Eddie?

[cqaigy2]

Good to hear you both are doing better. :thumbsup:

 

[ronjhall]

Good to here you and Karen are getting better. Special prayers for your dad.

 

[Hay Dude]

I’m about same age as Eddie, my wife younger. We both got over it. Never really had a day where I couldn’t work. My wife was over it in maybe a week. My symptoms were no worse, but lingered longer. Probably about a month before the chest completely cleared. Never felt like I needed to even go to doctor, but the body aches were freakishly strong for a few days. And the body aches moved around from lower back to upper back and shoulders.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Its probably pneumonia (still very serious). With Covid dominating all news and other illnesses, I think some of the traditional winter illnesses have all but been forgotten.

I had pneumonia twice in a month in 2019, the 2nd time is when I came down with GBS and spent 2 months in the hospital and 3 more before I could function at 90%. I’m still about 90% and don’t look like it will get better.

Saw a report that normal flu is almost non existent, because of masks and people washing more.

Glad you are improving Eddie, and hope your dad gets well soon.

 

[ultrarunner]

Re: How痴 Eddie?

I don't know if non existent but we have not had a flu case this year...

Somethings really work and our Grandmothers knew this... at least mine both were fastidious for cleanliness and hygiene...

To this day I don't know another person that weekly removed the refrigerator condensate tray to clean and disinfect!

She also basically steamed all the white goods... bedding, etc...

I'm sure having lived through the 1918 Pandemic made a lifetime impression on both of them...

My immediate neighbor also lived through the 1918 Pandemic.. she was a child and her family avoided going to town for more than a year... sadly she is on hospice this week... in her own home still very much with it at age 107...

Last week she asked for me and Mom to visit... she was so happy to see us and asked if we had brought and figs... which sadly are out of season... I looked into flying some in from overseas but figs don't keep well...

Something to be said going out on your own terms starting out life in a small ranch in rural Northern Nevada 107 years ago... we all got together for a birthday lunch at Trader Vics last year on Leap Day... if only we had an idea of how much life would change after that February last year.

She has outlived her child, grandchild, great grandchild... only descendant is great great grand daughter...

 

[Molalla1]

Wow Ultra . . . :thumbsup: for them.

 

[ultrarunner]

With a little luck only hope to have longevity and health of my 100 year old plus neighbors...

Something to be said for rural pioneer farm stock...

Hope Eddie and family firmly in road to recovery...

 

[jjp8182]

Something to be said for rural pioneer farm stock...

Yep, they're too darn stubborn to die (& that's meant in all the best ways) ...which I suppose shouldn't be too surprising since so much of their life was spent working just to survive.

I firmly believe the only reason my maternal grandfather died at 87 was because he chose to -- he had ended up in the hospital (for reasons I now forget) and decided to stopped eating. As a result the staff would put him on an IV and every time they did he'd pull it out.

Guess he'd decided he'd lived a good & long life and that it was time to go as all his 12 children had grown, all had already gotten married, most having had children, and with more than a few of the grandchildren having already started having children as well. So with family rarely coming to visit (though my brothers and I being there relatively frequently as we couldn't get to our parent's place without passing our grandparents), and with most of his friends having passed away years prior......

He was a stoic & tough old man (made Clint Eastwood's character in Gran Torino seem an emotional motormouth in a lot of ways), but still quite loving & caring in his own way. So yeah those rural farmers from older generations were definitely made from some tough stuff. :thumbsup:

 

[stuckmotor]

Good to here you and Karen are getting better. Special prayers for your dad.

Prayers for your dad from me too, Eddie. I think about our dad's method for finding which end of the string to pull nearly every time I open a sack of feed.

 

[Jstpssng]

Prayers for your dad from me too, Eddie. I think about our dad's method for finding which end of the string to pull nearly every time I open a sack of feed.

It took me a while to figure out that string... I'd try one end and if that didn't work then I'd go to the other. It wasn't until somebody posted a question here that I realized there was a right end to start on. Not long after that I noticed a grain bag with a note telling which end to start on. I"ve only been opening grain and seed bags for about... 50 years.
Now would somebody please tell me how to get rid of them, other than using them for trash? They're pretty rugged bags and it seems wasteful to use them once and toss.

Getting back to the original topic; I hope that your father recovers quickly Eddie.