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re: 16 August a day to remember ....
Posted on 8/16/21 at 10:08 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 8/16/21 at 10:08 pm to GetCocky11
A lot of us were wrong I guess, me especially. I was really wrong. Muschamp made a muschump out of me big time.
So I got hit hard with Covid in January of 2020. Didn't know it was Covid at the time but it was rough. After fighting it for ten days my fever broke below 102° and my wife offered to fix me breakfast for the first time since my return from Boone where I thought I had caught the flu ... Miller's Creek too. I couldn't smell the bacon or taste the bacon .... but it wasn't until March when we first heard that was a sympton and we realized I had Covid. Went to my Internist and sure enough I had the antibodies. Wasn't until about 30 days ago that we got the letter stating an Olympian (winter) who had been training in China in November/December that lived near Boone had apparently brought it back with her ... Boone was ground zero for NC in Dec of 2019. No one knew it.
I caught another strain in July that was not as bad fever but way worse respitory. Almost checked myself in for that one but did the teledoc thing with LMC, he prescribed HCQ and 48 hours later I had almost completely recovered.
Postive antibodies again .... they were still experimenting at that time.
So several people told me they had heard I was really sick from Covid on the radio or on a podcast ... a friend in Gaffney and one in Charleston called to see if I had died .... I didn't.
Just been laying low. Life got too intense there for awhile. Decided to spend more time with the grandkids.
Crazy thing is, spoke with a friend I served with this afternoon, he went Delta ... and his grandson is in Kabul tonight, a member of our beloved 82nd, helping to evacuate people.
Time flies. I've missed all of y'all. Here's to hoping we have a miracle year and it leads to a good receuiting class. Shane is a good kid. I actually got to know him quite well the last time he was here. He'll work really hard and I do believe he loves this place.
So I got hit hard with Covid in January of 2020. Didn't know it was Covid at the time but it was rough. After fighting it for ten days my fever broke below 102° and my wife offered to fix me breakfast for the first time since my return from Boone where I thought I had caught the flu ... Miller's Creek too. I couldn't smell the bacon or taste the bacon .... but it wasn't until March when we first heard that was a sympton and we realized I had Covid. Went to my Internist and sure enough I had the antibodies. Wasn't until about 30 days ago that we got the letter stating an Olympian (winter) who had been training in China in November/December that lived near Boone had apparently brought it back with her ... Boone was ground zero for NC in Dec of 2019. No one knew it.
I caught another strain in July that was not as bad fever but way worse respitory. Almost checked myself in for that one but did the teledoc thing with LMC, he prescribed HCQ and 48 hours later I had almost completely recovered.
Postive antibodies again .... they were still experimenting at that time.
So several people told me they had heard I was really sick from Covid on the radio or on a podcast ... a friend in Gaffney and one in Charleston called to see if I had died .... I didn't.
Just been laying low. Life got too intense there for awhile. Decided to spend more time with the grandkids.
Crazy thing is, spoke with a friend I served with this afternoon, he went Delta ... and his grandson is in Kabul tonight, a member of our beloved 82nd, helping to evacuate people.
Time flies. I've missed all of y'all. Here's to hoping we have a miracle year and it leads to a good receuiting class. Shane is a good kid. I actually got to know him quite well the last time he was here. He'll work really hard and I do believe he loves this place.
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Posted on 8/17/21 at 5:41 am to scrooster
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I've missed all of y'all.
As you can tell already, the feeling is mutual.
Posted on 8/17/21 at 12:37 pm to scrooster
most iconic sig pic on the Rant ^^^
quote:welcome back - great to hear from ya again
Just been laying low.
Posted on 8/17/21 at 5:20 pm to scrooster
Great to have you back. This board will come alive again.
Posted on 8/18/21 at 7:24 am to scrooster
Welcome back man. Glad you're doing better. I had Covid myself - I remember the day I lost my taste/smell (May 29, 2020). Then I basically had symptoms throughout the entirety of June and was better by July 4th. I had a couple weeks with breathing issues that made it really hard to sleep, and I'm an otherwise healthy young man (32 years old at the time, 5'11", 170 lbs).
I wouldn't wish it on anyone because you just don't know what it'll do to you. Still not sure the smell in my left nostril is 100%... for the longest time I'd cover the right one and try to smell with just the left and when I opened back up the right the smell would rush in... haven't tried that in awhile. Sometimes I still feel like I can't catch a full "satisfying" breath. Who knows what it did to my body long term. I've heard of it causing the heart to swell or something?
I wouldn't wish it on anyone because you just don't know what it'll do to you. Still not sure the smell in my left nostril is 100%... for the longest time I'd cover the right one and try to smell with just the left and when I opened back up the right the smell would rush in... haven't tried that in awhile. Sometimes I still feel like I can't catch a full "satisfying" breath. Who knows what it did to my body long term. I've heard of it causing the heart to swell or something?
Posted on 8/19/21 at 1:31 pm to scrooster
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Boone was ground zero for NC in Dec of 2019.
It was in GA around that time. Killed a friends mom dead as disco and the kid (my age) has had 4 bouts with it since. Last time was a trip to the hospital for 10 days, 5 of which were touch and go.
Ground zero for KY was Rand Paul catching it and doing a big fundraiser in Louisville and not telling anybody he had it. Very close family was there and transmitted it through their whole family (and lots of others in Louisville and Western Kentucky).
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I couldn't smell the bacon or taste the bacon ...
I always though this was a sign you had gone to Hell in the afterlife.
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I got hit hard with Covid
Really smart guy in your neck of the woods, I hope you were able to reach out to him.
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Decided to spend more time with the grandkids.
Excellent decision
Posted on 8/19/21 at 4:55 pm to scrooster
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I couldn't smell the bacon or taste the bacon
Welcome back scrooster. Reading your post sounds eerily similar to a lot of my life, but I'm a few years younger.
Funny thing, when I had covid I lost my sense of smell, except bacon. I couldn't smell a thing except for bacon. Glad to see you overcame it. Looking forward to your posts.
RLTW
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