How’s Eddie?

[PILOON]

Why is it most posts tend to roam--- LOL, Bird you guilty

On sheetrock, I made wooden 'T's', usually 2" longer than the height and simply jamb them between floor and ceiling.
I was able to self solo sheetrock all my ceilings that way.

OK, back to Eddie and Covid

 

[Dftodd]

I'm afraid I have very limited experience with sheetrock. Many years ago, a good friend and neighbor had a big house with a 2 car garage, but he decided to build a one car garage at the back of the yard, complete with lights, A/C, etc. I helped just a little, very little. But when it came to putting the sheetrock on the ceiling . . . . . well, we both had motorcycles, so we had helmets. So we put our helmets on, got on ladders, and used our heads to hold the sheetrock in place. Imagine how difficult it was to drive mails while holding the sheetrock with your head.:laughing:

They make a screw gun attachment that only sinks screws to a certain point. This way the sheet rock paper doesn't get ripped. Picked a couple of those attachments up for when we did a remodel on our house. Much easier to use a screw gun and screw then trying to drive nails.

 

[Molalla1]

A friend of mine had pnemonia with his Covid and was in the hospital with a ventilator for awhile. He is also well over 400 pounds and eats fast food several times a day. His doctor gave him a B12 shot and he said that worked great at giving him more energy. I asked my doctor about that when I saw here and she laughed. She said that it was a placebo and it would do nothing to give me more energy. Only resting and waiting it out will accomplish that.

Your doctor is correct Eddie . . .

 

[Pixguy]

Glad you're both doing better Eddie, this is also my "first hand" contact with those affected so it was interesting to read. Thanks!

 

[dodge man]

Glad to hear you and the wife are doing well.

 

[coobie]

Good to hear you & your wife are on the mend.

 

[Western]

Eddie hate to hear you're dealing with it, but good to hear you two are getting out of it. It isn't one to play around with that's for sure.

 

[ernemats]

Glad you are doing good, just don't go overboard with working I have known people who overdid it and the covid returned

 

[czechsonofagun]

They make a screw gun attachment that only sinks screws to a certain point. This way the sheet rock paper doesn't get ripped. Picked a couple of those attachments up for when we did a remodel on our house. Much easier to use a screw gun and screw then trying to drive nails.

Yeah, I like that one too.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Thanks for asking. Karen was on Hydroxychloroquine for her lupus and she was 100% after 2 weeks. Diarrhea was her worse issue, but we blame that more on having colon cancer 3 years ago then the Covid. She also lost her sense of smell and taste, but its coming back quickly.

I'm on day 20 and feeling pretty good. The last week I've gone from thinking I was done with it, to having fatigue so bad that it wore me out to just sit up and watch TV. It just comes and goes like a wave. I never lost my sense of taste or smell. Probably the worse thing for me was the muscle and joint aching. The fever never came back after the first 3 days. The only medicine that I took was Tylenol for the fever. My wife gave me some vitamins, but I don't know if they do anything or not.

I think it was last Tuesday or Wednesday that I went in to see my Doctor, and she said that I was no longer contagious. And that I was doing good and to not push myself too hard.

I plan on going back to work on Monday. I have an attic job that I had started the day I first started feeling something. I have all the framing done, so now it's just sheetrock, electrical, insulation and trim work. Carrying 3 sheets of sheetrock up there is the only physical part of the job, so I'll do one, rest, then the other, and rest and then finish with the smaller pieces from the third sheet. It should be simple enough.

Sorry that I abandoned the other thread. It was taken over by silly people making silly comments that nobody cared about except themselves.

Great news!