Flu Etc Roll Call
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My wife hasn’t smelled or tasted anything for 2 years. Weird cold.
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I lose the gallbladder tomorrow. Hopefully I get to keep the rest of me for a while. First thing I’ve ever had removed.
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@approxinfinity Helluva way to lose weight. Good luck, we’ll all be cheering for you! One of my friends had it done a year ago and is doing great. (You kept your wisdom teeth??)
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@mayjay thanks! i didnt have any wisdom teeth. My brother had 2 sets, got mine.
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@approxinfinity ewwwww, caused me a lot of problems, but mine was still good. Took it out while they were in there.
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@approxinfinity if you know anyone losing a good gallbladder I’m looking to be the first recipient of a gall bladder transplant.
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@approxinfinity said in Flu Etc Roll Call:
I lose the gallbladder tomorrow. Hopefully I get to keep the rest of me for a while. First thing I’ve ever had removed.
Just had a friend go through this. He had a longer recovery time than expected. Hope it goes better for you!
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@approxinfinity odds are definitely in your favor it will be a piece of cake! Will be waiting to hear
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️ scope or robotically?
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Speedy recovery!
My youngest has some stomach bug. Got it from his cousins over the Thanksgiving holiday. - also got my car crunched fairly bad while parked - need two doors is all I think. Then my sister got t-boned in her new (to her) vehicle, when some dude ran a red. Ugg. Everyone is fine. Just waiting our turn for the stomach bug.
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@mayjay said in Flu Etc Roll Call:
Thx, everyone. Home now. Not too much pain (they do a local while you are under the general, to enable the discomfort to come back only slowly; just like a dentist). Just don’t like the moving slow and having to get up so awkwardly. But my wife is the best of the bunch…and is repaying me, she says, for the hours I have been in hospital waiting room during procedures!
Best part was going to bed at halftime and waking up before surgery to the news that we won! RCJH!!! I will watch it later.
just don’t overdue my friend - don’t try and push it take that time to recover - -again been there & know it’s no fun but thank goodness you’ll be better. - -just be careful cause they can only go in so many times and re tie those things you know lol- stay safe buddy
@approxinfinity said in Flu Etc Roll Call:
I lose the gallbladder tomorrow. Hopefully I get to keep the rest of me for a while. First thing I’ve ever had removed.
Ouch , hang tough hope you get a speedy recovery. - Did you have gall stones or they catch before they developed? - -No Matter just take care and rest - - be careful - -ROCK CHALK
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@jayballer67 ejection fraction was 11%, 35% is normal, 10% and below is broken, and I’ve been having some problems, which is why they looked.
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Get well soon! It’s been a fall for sure. Covid in October, some hellish other infection a couple weeks later (negative for flu and strep), and now have viral bronchitis.
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@jayballer67 Thanks, but my post you replied to was from last year! approx just reopened this thread. (I did recover ok, but it took a lot longer than expected, and I am now having some gastro issues. Might be related to mesh being put on top of my innards, might not.
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@approxinfinity Hope everything goes well with your surgery. Take it easy with high-fat foods for awhile after the surgery or be close to a bathroom if you do.
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@mayjay triple A?
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@patoh3 can vouch for that!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Fortunately, no. Had to look that one up. Let’s just say part of me gets more “irritable” when I eat certain things. (Like food. But trying to narrow it down from there!) I don’t remember this happening before my hernia repair.
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@approxinfinity said in Flu Etc Roll Call:
@jayballer67 ejection fraction was 11%, 35% is normal, 10% and below is broken, and I’ve been having some problems, which is why they looked.
Oh mercy my friends. Well lots of prayers sent your way, you just re-coup and don’t rush anything.
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@mayjay said in Flu Etc Roll Call:
@jayballer67 Thanks, but my post you replied to was from last year! approx just reopened this thread. (I did recover ok, but it took a lot longer than expected, and I am now having some gastro issues. Might be related to mesh being put on top of my innards, might not.
️)sorry, getting old lol I get things mied up, but anyways hope you don’t have any more issues and hoping the same for approx. - any surgeries the older w get - - the harder they are on the body - -lot’s of re coup time
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@FarmerJayhawk last yr before 🦃 day my son in wichita got rsv. He thought he just had a virus for a couple of weeks and finally he got so sick he could barely make it to dr. I was busy and couldn’t get over there and his pg wife was at a checkup. He made it but dr said if his O2 sats dropped 1 more and it did, they needed to get him to a hospital. He spent the night in ER on full ox. He was in the hospital 6 nights and the pulmonologist said it was the worst case he’s ever seen w/dble pneumonia. He’s in his 30’s. First I ever heard of an adult, healthy young male w/rsv! My sister and I took turns staying with their 1 yr old, she’s a nurse and she saw his X-ray of his lungs and said he was lucky they didn’t intubate him. So moral of the story, don’t think you don’t need to go to the dr!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Sometimes it is the bug (virus, bacteria, prion) that causes the severity of the infection, but in an otherwise healthy individual it is most likely their own immune system that is causing the severity of the response to the bug. Our own immune system sometimes does not know when to stop. Whenever someone feels rotten after getting a vaccine, it is typically own our immune system that causes the symptoms that may be experienced reacting to usually the tiny amount of inactive parts of the bug.
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In other news a new jayhawk will be joining the club in 48-72 hours! My partner and my first. Wish us luck.
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@Crimsonorblue22 that’s awful!! Glad he’s ok! I’m fine, just have a lingering cough.
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@benshawks08 Early congratulations on your new lil Jayhawk!
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@approxinfinity said in Flu Etc Roll Call:
I lose the gallbladder tomorrow. Hopefully I get to keep the rest of me for a while. First thing I’ve ever had removed.
Ugh, sorry @approxinfinity. Been there though, many moons ago. I Sympathize. But, don’t sweat it. The surgery is No biggie. You’ll have to chill for a week or so while the wound heals. After that, everybody reacts differently to life without a gallbladder.
Happy to share any vital recovery and beyond details. DM me if you wanna know the dirt!
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P.S.: In keeping with the thread title, I got my flu shot today!
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Other side of it now. Free bellyshave, sterile pre op body soap, saltine crackers, drugs? What delightful day spa did i stumble into???
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@benshawks08 hey congrats! Very excited for you! Please give us updates as much as you feel comfortable. Thats really wonderful!
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@Crimsonorblue22 oh man i dont think i knew the full details of his bout with the double pneumonia. Thats awful. Have his lungs recovered mostly?
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@FarmerJayhawk brutal. My family got rocked as well. Had the viral bronchitus and also since thanksgiving we have all taken our respective day vomiting. Some stomach bug going around.
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I’ll bet if they did a qualitative study after people discussed their common ailments, theyd find people in less pain. Thanks for all your sharing.
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And also, new kid @benshawks08 not a pain obviously, really great.
Assuming kiddo doesnt lose a piece to every puzzle, draw on most of your walls sometimes in permanent marker, and slam doors at 3am repeatedly to get your attention when they can’t sleep, like mine. But hey, they grow out of it and act appalled 6 months later like “i don’t know that guy, im a different man now” ;).
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@approxinfinity said in Flu Etc Roll Call:
And also, new kid @benshawks08 not a pain obviously, really great.
A truism my wife makes sure we men do not forget: No new (meant literally at least) kids without pain.
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@approxinfinity yes! Thx, he was a weak pup!
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@approxinfinity lol!
