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dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
Today the other med student checked out with flu like symptoms. That's two people in the clinic in one week.

Now I'm kinda worried lol. We had a 51 yo woman yesterday who had it back in November and she had a ridiculously irregular heart rate that would go from 90 to 110+ within seconds. Both were already high but it forced our doctor to do an EKG in the clinic because he was concerned. Didn't show anything dangerous but did show the erratic HR. That's one of the more common complications post-infection, is changes to the heart.

Also, take your Vitamin D. It's been known for a few months that those who had normal D levels had a better prognosis once infected. I think mortality was higher in those who were deficient in it. C, D, and E.

Gonna be popping D supplements like Skittles now and hope I'm not low. Takes about a month to see any significant changes anyway.
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
This might be a dumb question, but it's been brought up since COVID started. Where do you think athletes should rank in terms of getting the vaccine? Because they're still playing and traveling to do so, should they be right after the frontline and essential workers? Or should they be like the "regular" folks and wait their turn?
 

Pittsey

Knock, Knock...
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This might be a dumb question, but it's been brought up since COVID started. Where do you think athletes should rank in terms of getting the vaccine? Because they're still playing and traveling to do so, should they be right after the frontline and essential workers? Or should they be like the "regular" folks and wait their turn?

I don't know how you do it in America, but in the UK you can't buy the vaccine (although we have a progressive health care system anyway), you have to wait your turn. It is currently organised by prioritising the elderly and frontline healthcare workers. I am comfortable with this decision and would think it sends a terrible message should the rich be able to skip the queue.
 

Da_Funk

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This might be a dumb question, but it's been brought up since COVID started. Where do you think athletes should rank in terms of getting the vaccine? Because they're still playing and traveling to do so, should they be right after the frontline and essential workers? Or should they be like the "regular" folks and wait their turn?
I think Americans put athletes on a pedestal like no other culture. Frontline and a vulnerable first. Rest of us healthy folk wait our turn
 

masta247

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I think Americans put athletes on a pedestal like no other culture. Frontline and a vulnerable first. Rest of us healthy folk wait our turn
Yeah I was confused as to why would the athletes get a special treatment. Their work is about as unessential as it gets too, so I'd say it's actually one of the first groups to safely put under a lockdown. As far as I know most major sporting events are largely rightfully cancelled anyway.
 

THEV1LL4N

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I don't know how you do it in America, but in the UK you can't buy the vaccine (although we have a progressive health care system anyway), you have to wait your turn. It is currently organised by prioritising the elderly and frontline healthcare workers. I am comfortable with this decision and would think it sends a terrible message should the rich be able to skip the queue.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
I was doing remote hospital cases with my attending the other day. He was pulling up reports on all the patients he had seen at a local hospital, which is close to home. He's been showing us a lot of COVID patients and their history and all that stuff. One of the younger patients he showed us was a girl whose name I recognized from high school. She was a year or two ahead, 32 years old, and it did not look good. Of course, it showed her meds prior to admission and it was...interesting.

Really weird to see and I hope she's alright. I'm sure he'll follow up with her but the doctor was just commenting on the rising number of cases and also about how even younger folks are not only getting COVID but being hospitalized for it too.
 
I was doing remote hospital cases with my attending the other day. He was pulling up reports on all the patients he had seen at a local hospital, which is close to home. He's been showing us a lot of COVID patients and their history and all that stuff. One of the younger patients he showed us was a girl whose name I recognized from high school. She was a year or two ahead, 32 years old, and it did not look good. Of course, it showed her meds prior to admission and it was...interesting.

Really weird to see and I hope she's alright. I'm sure he'll follow up with her but the doctor was just commenting on the rising number of cases and also about how even younger folks are not only getting COVID but being hospitalized for it too.

Did she have any unlying healthc onditions?
 

Pittsey

Knock, Knock...
Staff member
My views on this disease change daily.

I'm not of the thinking that everyone is able to improve their immune systems by eating healthy and exercising to ensure they can fight it off. I appreciate there are a lot of people who are immuno compromised or who have conditions which make it more difficult for them to fight the disease.

But, I also see people who have unfortunately died from it with 'no underlying health conditions' who are about 24 stone in weight.

I don't believe it's a hoax, I'm not an anti vaxxer. But if I was 24 stone, I wouldn't be leaving the house. If I was undergoing chemotherapy, I wouldn't be leaving the house and if I had COPD, I wouldn't be leaving the house.

My son had it. He recovered fine. He is 13.

My Nan had it. She recovered fine. She is 100.

I wear a mask and I social distance. I'm not worried about myself, I consider it good manners to comply.

If there's a need for me to the vaccinated to ensure we allow the country to get moving again, I'll take it. Again, I don't feel I'm at risk from the disease so don't consider it necessary to protect myself.


If people were sensible, reasonable and able to take instruction from those who were more educated on the subject, I'm pretty sure we'd have beaten this already.


These are just my views right now, and I don't wish to offend anybody
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
Did she have any unlying healthc onditions?
I think she was relatively healthy. She was on meds for anxiety and/or depression but I don't think she was obese or in an immunocompromised state. After seeing her name and age and having a good inkling she was the girl I was remembering from school, I couldn't really focus on anything else. Just whatever the doctor was pointing out, which was her age and deteriorating condition. I'm not sure if that was tied to being high risk or not, or if she even was considered as such.
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
So I guess I qualify the COVID vaccine now. Nurse is going in this Thursday and the rest of us are trying to get in some time this weekend. My Dr. got both rounds of his shots this past month, as did my dad. My Dr said that the first one went fine but the second one he got on a Friday and on Saturday he had 4-6 hours of feeling a bit sick. Noticeably sick, but it was over before the weekend was done. Kinda nervous about that part only because I hate being sick and wouldn't want to miss time from the clinic like a little bitch. But actual COVID is worse so I'll suck it up.

A dumbass had a televisit scheduled for Friday but insisted on seeing the doctor face to face. So she came yesterday with flu like symptoms. She thought it would be a good idea to see the doctor in person like a moron instead of going to get a COVID test at a testing center. She brought her dumbass husband with her and the doctor missed the original fact that she was coming in for having flu like symptoms and let her reschedule for yesterday in the first place. The other student was seeing her, not me, and this woman ws very vague in speaking to the student and just insisted on speaking to the doctor. Eventually the doctor came and spoke with her and she just blurts out she thinks she has COVID. Doctor is furious that front desk let her make an in-person visit but they remind him that she was a remote visit on Friday and she rescheduled for yesterday and that doctor approved it.

So they do the COVID test on her and just as they begin, she says her husband wants one too. So Tweedle Dee and Dumb, both, think they have it. So that student had to make an appointment for both of them, on the spot, and then proceed to do the charts for both of them as the nurse basically had to walk in like one of those dudes from Bioshock with all the protection she could fit on her to swab their noses.

Our nurse is well-trained and not a dumbass but the woman then claims that she shoved it to far up her nose and now her "brain hurts." What brain? She then bitches about that to the doctor. I should note that this couple is an Indian couple as is my doctor. And three other staff members. So she bitches about it thinking the doctor will scold her because they're Indian. I don't know what happened with that, but the nurse did get in trouble, temporarily, for originally "allowing" them to come in-person. Her man got his too.

In took about 1.5 hours of that student sitting in the room with them getting all that sorted out. When she came out, she was livid. Normally after each patient, we take Lysol wipes and wipe down the equipment and the exam table, doorknobs, etc. 20? 30 seconds? This time, she had to bust out the bleach. Everything from the floor to the walls had to be wiped in case these dumbfucks tested positive. That was another 20 minutes of cleaning for her though we helped when/where we could.

That's the first instance I've seen of someone having blatant disregard for others during COVID. And we're almost a year in to dealing with it. I don't think it was ignorance. Not even sure it was entitlement even though she had the nerve to bitch about the swabbing after coming to the clinic in-person when she knew very well not to. I don't know what it is but boy, some people are fucking shit. The doctor wasn't in today but we were still feeling the effects from it from yesterday since the nurse was upset at 1. being bamboozled by those morons and 2. the doctor making a mistake letting them come, then turning around and pinning it on her, then regressing back on that. I think we find out tomorrow if they tested positive or not but it won't matter since we're already exposed to it. And you think those two are going to properly quarantine after testing positive or go around town being morons like nothing is wrong?
 

THEV1LL4N

Well-Known Member
So I guess I qualify the COVID vaccine now. Nurse is going in this Thursday and the rest of us are trying to get in some time this weekend. My Dr. got both rounds of his shots this past month, as did my dad. My Dr said that the first one went fine but the second one he got on a Friday and on Saturday he had 4-6 hours of feeling a bit sick. Noticeably sick, but it was over before the weekend was done. Kinda nervous about that part only because I hate being sick and wouldn't want to miss time from the clinic like a little bitch. But actual COVID is worse so I'll suck it up.

A dumbass had a televisit scheduled for Friday but insisted on seeing the doctor face to face. So she came yesterday with flu like symptoms. She thought it would be a good idea to see the doctor in person like a moron instead of going to get a COVID test at a testing center. She brought her dumbass husband with her and the doctor missed the original fact that she was coming in for having flu like symptoms and let her reschedule for yesterday in the first place. The other student was seeing her, not me, and this woman ws very vague in speaking to the student and just insisted on speaking to the doctor. Eventually the doctor came and spoke with her and she just blurts out she thinks she has COVID. Doctor is furious that front desk let her make an in-person visit but they remind him that she was a remote visit on Friday and she rescheduled for yesterday and that doctor approved it.

So they do the COVID test on her and just as they begin, she says her husband wants one too. So Tweedle Dee and Dumb, both, think they have it. So that student had to make an appointment for both of them, on the spot, and then proceed to do the charts for both of them as the nurse basically had to walk in like one of those dudes from Bioshock with all the protection she could fit on her to swab their noses.

Our nurse is well-trained and not a dumbass but the woman then claims that she shoved it to far up her nose and now her "brain hurts." What brain? She then bitches about that to the doctor. I should note that this couple is an Indian couple as is my doctor. And three other staff members. So she bitches about it thinking the doctor will scold her because they're Indian. I don't know what happened with that, but the nurse did get in trouble, temporarily, for originally "allowing" them to come in-person. Her man got his too.

In took about 1.5 hours of that student sitting in the room with them getting all that sorted out. When she came out, she was livid. Normally after each patient, we take Lysol wipes and wipe down the equipment and the exam table, doorknobs, etc. 20? 30 seconds? This time, she had to bust out the bleach. Everything from the floor to the walls had to be wiped in case these dumbfucks tested positive. That was another 20 minutes of cleaning for her though we helped when/where we could.

That's the first instance I've seen of someone having blatant disregard for others during COVID. And we're almost a year in to dealing with it. I don't think it was ignorance. Not even sure it was entitlement even though she had the nerve to bitch about the swabbing after coming to the clinic in-person when she knew very well not to. I don't know what it is but boy, some people are fucking shit. The doctor wasn't in today but we were still feeling the effects from it from yesterday since the nurse was upset at 1. being bamboozled by those morons and 2. the doctor making a mistake letting them come, then turning around and pinning it on her, then regressing back on that. I think we find out tomorrow if they tested positive or not but it won't matter since we're already exposed to it. And you think those two are going to properly quarantine after testing positive or go around town being morons like nothing is wrong?
Which vaccine did he get and which one have you qualified for?
 

dilla

Trumpfan17 aka Coonie aka Dilla aka Tennis Dog
Got the shot today. Lots of people in line despite there being an appointment system that said not to arrive more than ten minutes prior.

Still, got it, went back to work and the fever within a few hours. Arm is definitely sore but I've had so many shots in the past 3 months with the flu, tetanus, HepB, etc. and it's a known side effect. I just hope it doesn't worsen overnight to the point I can't use my left arm. I go back in three weeks.
 

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