Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

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NurseGoodVol said:
I think if I see one more "We are with you" or
"we are in this together" ad I'm gonna scream.
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I'm with you.

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Anyone think the unemployment numbers are cooked or these people just dont want to work ( there are jobs out there) ? Just asking because in at least my area it looks that way
 
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508mikey said:
Anyone think the unemployment numbers are cooked or these people just dont want to work ( there are jobs out there) ? Just asking because in at least my area it looks that way
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Jobs everywhere here...my uncle has to sell horses and acreage because his guides and trainers liked that extra 600 per week to Netflix and chill
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
I've noticed that my balance is off since I had it. I'm wondering if microclotting is my issue since I was down for about 10 days. I saw a tremendous amount of clotting issues with my covid19 pts. Not just strokes but microclotting also in the small vessels of the brain. I'd have to have a CT angiogram to be sure though. It does make me wonder.
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Two days ago I had to pick my wife up off the kitchen floor - she said she fell avoiding a cat which is not unlikely, but her balance, strength, and sometimes cognition are not right even a month later. She's still having unusually severe migraines - they actually started before the rest of the symptoms and fever set in. The mental aspect is something particularly worrying - we're talking someone who completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice seems like about 5 years ago - she's always been very mentally acute. When she was sick, I had to help her out of bed to get to the bathroom - and then pick her up off the bathroom floor when she collapsed; I said something about it later, and she absolutely doesn't remember it.
 
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AM64 said:
Two days ago I had to pick my wife up off the kitchen floor - she said she fell avoiding a cat which is not unlikely, but her balance, strength, and sometimes cognition are not right even a month later. She's still having unusually severe migraines - they actually started before the rest of the symptoms and fever set in. The mental aspect is something particularly worrying - we're talking someone who completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice seems like about 5 years ago - she's always been very mentally acute. When she was sick, I had to help her out of bed to get to the bathroom - and then pick her up off the bathroom floor when she collapsed; I said something about it later, and she absolutely doesn't remember it.
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Praying for her improvement and you.
 
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AM64 said:
Two days ago I had to pick my wife up off the kitchen floor - she said she fell avoiding a cat which is not unlikely, but her balance, strength, and sometimes cognition are not right even a month later. She's still having unusually severe migraines - they actually started before the rest of the symptoms and fever set in. The mental aspect is something particularly worrying - we're talking someone who completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice seems like about 5 years ago - she's always been very mentally acute. When she was sick, I had to help her out of bed to get to the bathroom - and then pick her up off the bathroom floor when she collapsed; I said something about it later, and she absolutely doesn't remember it.
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I think we have the same issue. Maybe we both need a CT angiogram.
 
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newyorkvol said:
Praying for her improvement and you.
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Thank you. I really think she's improving - some things apparently go slowly and not linearly. I'd just like for everybody to understand we can all be affected differently, and our actions can impact others. For example, a relatively unaffected child at school can come home and set off a chain reaction having much worse consequences for others in the family. No matter how individualist we are, we're still part of multiple communities - our actions don't happen in a vacuum and the consequences aren't always our own.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
I think we have the same issue. Maybe we both need a CT angiogram.
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One doctor told my wife that considering the loss of smell and the proximity to nerves (or whatever - I'm definitely not biologically inclined) that he wouldn't be at all surprised to find that migraines and compromised taste and smell are related.
 
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AM64 said:
One doctor told my wife that considering the loss of smell and the proximity to nerves (or whatever - I'm definitely not biologically inclined) that he wouldn't be at all surprised to find that migraines and compromised taste and smell are related.
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That could be. Several things can affect balance, they would have to have a neurologist and ENT to rule them out. Is any of this concerning her?
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
That could be. Several things can affect balance, they would have to have a neurologist and ENT to rule them out. Is any of this concerning her?
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I don't know for sure - I think so, but she doesn't think much of my medical "experience", so we haven't had a very good discussion about it all. This is where that old Venus and Mars philosophy thing kicks in - apparently men (particularly husbands) are intended to listen and not give advice - and understand without asking for clarification. After almost fifty years of marriage I still struggle with that and keeping quiet.

She has admitted over the years to balance becoming an issue, and I can say it's true for me, too. I think it's probably a combination of age related muscle tone, reflexes, and less accurate sensing (middle ear?) - too much tilt and too little ability to respond once the brain figures it out. In this particular case it could simply be more muscle weakness and fatigue due to covid than neurological issues; however, that alone doesn't address all of the cognitive issues and sometimes extreme irritability - those may still just be fatigue - so difficult to tell when things are so interrelated.
 
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