AG/ND 53: Chat Thread for Spring

Our trip across town to Lowe's was worthwhile. We found the freezer we want. They have a delivery coming to the store on Tuesday. The sales lady said we can buy one then - and we plan to go back over there & do that.

This spring weather really brought people out today. Lowe's parking lot was full of cars and the store was humming with people. We stopped by Wal-Mart for a minute so I could run in & pick up some fresh meat for dinner. That place was packed too. Well, hopefully, I'm now home for the rest of the weekend.

Praying for you, Mel, that your day goes well. Praying you have no more plumbing or other problems with your house before your DH returns home, Jeanette.

I've turned on the AC, just to clear out the stuffiness in the house. I told Pup Fran I'd turn on the air for her when we came back. They're sacked out here in the office, enjoying the cool breeze.

Hope you're all having a great afternoon!

“Peg Hunting” is going to stores & looking through the hot wheels or matchbox cars that are hanging on the store display pegs.

Praying for you Mel.

‘Morning
Mel praying
Barb yep, peg hunting, as grandson calls it, is enjoyable esp when any of the little guys finds what they consider to be rare

Hope you're all doing well this evening.

gotta share this ...

Sweetie is suffering long covid, which is miserable and frustrating. He's told one of his docs, who chuckled & said yep, that's the description of it, then shrugged his shoulders because he has no idea what to do for it. He talked to another doc's nurse and she recognized his symptoms, said oh, yeh, her sister had covid last fall & it wasn't a serious case, but she's been sicker since she got well & it's the same symptoms+ that Sweetie's having. So no answers from her either. I've been researching inflammation and foods that increase energy, but with little success.

Yesterday, one of my regular news emails had an article in it that didn't seem to go with the newsletter in general so I suspected it might be an ad -- you know, one of those infomercial style ads that promise for $XX.xx I could order a super-mega-vitamin that would cure everything, especially any holdover virus symptoms. I read my way through what actually proved to be a synopsis of a research project and it was about people suffering long covid symptoms. It's suspected that at least half the people who've had the virus, any variant and/or in any level of severity, is still suffering symptoms that are puzzling and for which a treatment protocol hasn't been determined.

I had to wade through a lot - the outcome of studying through all that has led the researchers to believe people with these long covid symptoms are suffering micro-bloodclots. These clots are keeping muscles from getting enough oxygen, so people are suffering exhaustion after brief periods of any type of work or they have little energy all day. They aren't getting enough oxygen to the brain, apparently - that's gotta be what's behind the brain fog and headaches. You'd think somebody would be all over setting up groups to treat symptomatic people based on knowing that ^^^, wouldn't you? "Yet neurological exams, EKGs and chest X-rays come back clean." So, basically, people have to be believed based on self-report data.

So far, all researchers have come up with is a suggestion that people suffering long covid symptoms be treated with blood thinners and anti-coagulants. That ^^^ was in the conclusion portion of the article. That was pretty disappointing. But God! ... this next little bit at the end just seems almost out of place:


OTC antihistamines could significantly aid in recovery of long covid symptoms, finally - ?!? I was silently shrieking my thanks to God!

Once I caught my breath, and pulled myself together, I gave Edward the thumbnail sketch of what I'd read. Then we started looking at the cold & allergy medicines we have in the house. The one I take that's usable by people with high blood pressure has an antihistamine in it. (I take that any time I have a cold or allergy symptoms that aren't clearing right up. That's what I took when I had covid, same time Edward had covid). He started taking that cold medicine this morning. We'll see where this takes him. Meantime, I'm still thanking God and praying that I read all the guidance correctly. I went back & read the linked article about those 2 patients and basically, they happened onto taking antihistamines accidentally after months of medical tests and no solutions. They began getting relief and are still improving. I'm praying this works for Edward! /end of the big thing here this weekend.

‘Morning

Thank you once again for your researching & sharing info, Barb!

Praying for you, Mel, hope to see you here.

I’m feeling out of sorts :-X

Thankful, Saturday night was better than all week re resting.

Thankful Sunday I didn’t set an alarm, decided to skip the service and got to Sunday school, a little late. There was one couple & a gal I hadn’t seen in awhile. Nice small group & conversation plus lesson.

Afterwards, I checked with the gal & drove to her home, where I parked and we walked to a nearby restaurant for lunch & conversation. I tried some different food & had an experience of “eating” artichoke hearts (?) Thankful the waitress explained the “how to” re eating them! Otherwise, I’d still be trying to chew stuff! Turns out ya gotta use your teeth to kind of scrap the artichoke from the cooked (?) leaves and the center of soft stuff is edible. lol

Stopped by a grocery store on the way home.

Afterwards, another gal in the neighborhood & I met up and rode bikes for over an hour on the greenway & some street, slow & steady. (About 8.5 miles)

I’m thinking all the eating out foods, (extra salt that’s used), Friday thru Sunday, is affecting my normally low BP, as it’s been a little higher than “normal”.

I’m so over DH’s being away. :-X

Praying re getting a check to the place, hopefully with son-in-law, to walk away from the purchase of the apparent “money-pit” house, before April 1st.

I’m also dealing with some dizziness which may be related to either vertigo or foods etc. praying it goes away, also.

Grouphug

Oh and the heat has been running, even set at 60! It’s 32 degrees outside here at 7:30 am

Very chilly here today.

I don't think that it ever got above 30 degrees.