Good Morning Tuesday

Unfortunately NfkD, we can probably only speculate. China started making noises about the problem in February, but it seems to be accepted that they had successfully covered up what was happening and the extent of the problem well before that. So who knows? When people have coughs which just go on and on though, it does provide food for thought.

I really must say goodnight.... and scarper - before I'm found lurking near this thread when Mick arrives to say Good Morning Wednesday

Wasn’t the November / December cough too early? I really can’t remember when all this started.

I too had that horrible virus starting In November, I still have a thickly throat and cough. I know others who have had the same. Never had anything go on for so long. It makes you wonder ?

Taichinan and Grandmafrench. I bet that was early stage C-19 but at the time thought it was winter virus. I've never before felt so fatigued and unable to stand. Just wanted sleep ++ and the more I tried to stifle the cough, the more I had to do it.
Didn't go to GP as we were told to stay home and make warm lemon/honey drinks.
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What lovely "puppies" Sheilall. We call ours puppies, even though one is 12 now. It's possibly because they behave like mad creatures when we go walking. Are yours Labradoodly ones? They certainly have some lovely open spaces.

EV and Gabriella It's strange how quickly we forget. I had the "legs won't operate" problem in the New Year. Actually couldn't walk from the car to the water's edge. Sat on the Lifeguards' balcony and watched my DH exercise our dogs. And I love walking and walk for miles on the beach. This lasted for 10 days or so and I had a higher temperature than normal and absolutely no energy. Our DS and his partner arrived here in February from England to glorious weather - we were able to use our Kayak and spend days outside. She had a very bad dry cough which she said had been a problem since December! When she went back to the UK she went to the Doctor since by then there was an infection. Lots of talk of The Virus being around for longer than we think. I'm sure with all the easy travel, holidays, 'planes etc., it would be easy to believe.
Kate54 you'll have to ask members of this site for the Mick history - or maybe he'll respond. I just gather, as a fairly new person on here, that he lives on his own near Bickley/Bicester and is in sheltered housing (?) - that's a guess, and is used to spending his days getting out and about on the buses to the shops and he loves sports on t.v. - especially cycling. Someone will give you more info., I'm sure. There are many meet-ups organised by GN members regularly in lots of areas when life is a normal one. Don't think it's down to Mick to hire a church hall and try to squash everyone in. Can you imagine? Poor guy...would he even hear himself speak!
Calendar keep safe in Super Sussex....we don't talk to people enough. We need to make sure that this pandemic starts a good new trend in acknowledging each other.

Welcome kate54. I love your vision of Mick and the church hall. How about it Mick?

A lovely walk this morning with my puppies! We are so lucky to have these fields backing on to our back garden!

We too were ill over Christmas and well into January with what seems to have been the symptoms of corona virus.The cough still lingers over three months later.

Oh Urmstongran, it would be virtually impossible for me to be irked by anything alluding to my spending and I certainlydidn't even read it like criticism.
Even I look back and wonder at the call charges from years ago when I had two mobiles and a landline (Amstrad e-mailer)
The emailer bills were circa an unbelievable £360 per month yes. I still have some paper bills, both sides of several sheets.
One mobile business and t'other private.
T-Mobile gave me free upgrades when I renewed but my ex paid until we divorced.
Since then I buy mobiles outright every few years and have a £6.50pm SIM from Plusnet with unlimited calls/texts and 2GB data.
The 'stash' has accumulated since the very first 'brick' Motorola, a very long time ago.
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A symptom of leg problems is interesting as before my lurgy took a hold over late December, I was coming back from the local shop and found that my legs didn't want to go the few yards further to the front door and clearly remember visions of wanting to sit down on the pavement there and then.

I struggled putting one foot in front of the other before I got inside and felt like collapsing. At that point I had an idea that it was my chest/lungs which were affected because of a blip in circulation to the lower half of my body as lack of oxygen can cause these symptoms. Increased temperature only for a couple of days prior to a worsening condition.

Sure enough, I then felt as though there was an elephant sitting on my chest restricting my breathing and this went on for over a week with an irritating cough where I couldn't get my breath. All through January and most of February I didn't feel as though I " belonged ". Because my blood oxygen has always been good and had measured 98% for as far back as I can remember, I managed to fight back, but anyone with a poor lung/ oxygen function I feel heartily sorry for. Blood oxygen is ideally 100%---fit and healthy level.

Ironically I'm a smoker too !! I didn't call a GP, neither have I since seen one but slightly concerned at any damage that may have been done to the lungs though I haven't been gasping for breath and can breath freely, even experimenting going to sleep with one pillow, no problem.

Taichinan, as you say, testing should be vital as right now I'd be interested to see results of an antibody test just out of curiosity.

First time on here (hello from South Lincolnshire) and am finding it riveting, not to mention useful. So far: what to do about the possibility, after years of highlighting my hair, that I might be totally grey by now; great suggestions for Youtube living room workouts (cheerful American woman Leslie Sansone my favourite so far); and last but not least, the morning greeting session with uplifting messages from all over the country. But put me out of my misery - who is Mick? He (assuming a ‘he’, could be wrong) seems to be in charge of you all - I have visions of him, after this horror time is all over, organising real life get-togethers in a centrally-located church hall...... he’s standing in the middle of the room, facilitating a GN session and everyone’s having a great time finally meeting each other.

Good Morning to everyone from a corner of Sussex. Bright sunny day and the birds flying about. There were more sitting in my cherry tree than I have seen - but then it’s Spring. More blossom breaking out and green shoots. I was taking my early morning ‘sniff of fresh air’ ( high risk so I can’t leave the house like many others) when two ladies walked past with their little children. I said ‘good morning’ and enjoy your walk’ and they responded with a very cheery ‘Hello, you OK’ adding that few people speak even from the 2 metre distance. I hope our exchange added to their day since it did to mine. With the technology of FaceTime I can keep in touch with my grandchildren and great grand children and I’m so grateful for that. When this ‘nightmare’ is over, from then on everyday will be sunny day even when we are in the depths of Winter. Today I am drawing pictures of Easter Eggs to send to the little ones, with the hope that my daughter might find three eggs that can be set aside when we are eventually ‘set free’. May I wish each and everyone a Happy Easter, remembering those who are ill and especially those who are grieving. Nothing makes real sense at the moment but perhaps the message of Easter Day will resonate with some.

Another gorgeous sunny day here in the south.
Don't forget to look at the moon tonight- it will be huge & pink!! Although I seem to remember that last year is was more orange than pink TBH. Still very impressive.

Good morning all. Absolutely gorgeous day here on the river. Water level has risen a bit and I am no longer sitting on the river bed. Nice to have the gentle movement again. I have been out raking the grass. Also trying to start my lawn mower. I know it will eventually. Had this problem last year. I have moved it to a sunny spot now. Get a bit of heat into the gubbins. Grass cutting can wait until after lunch now. Hope you are all coping well with isolation.

Gabriella it sounds very much that what you had in Jan was CV! I'm beginning to think it's been amongst us for far longer than we thought. (See my and Maw's posts above).

A great good morning from a sunny East Midlands. Just had a lovely walk out and not seen a person, thank goodness. An afternoon of phone calls and catching up with friends and might do a bit in the garden. Stay safe everyone.

It’s funny someone mentioned a dry cough as I had that just after christmas as well. It got really bad and my lungs ached so I went along to the drs. Had my chest sounded out and it was clear and all ok but the cough still remains. I was also wondering if I had had this pesky virus then, as well. Oh well we will never know.

Just to clarify Gabriella - my post was in no way a criticism from your purchases (or upgrades by contract). It was to highlight my cheapskatedness ‼️

Maw that's why I shared this, so that more people can be aware that it doesn't necessarily start with a cough. It's actually comforting to know that your little grandson presented this way and recovered - it sounds very much as if he has had CV, comparing the symptoms. Roll on the day when there is a test to show who has/hasn't had it.

Thanks Gabriella, it was a truly moaning, negative post, so it's best it disappeared into the ether! ?

Oh dear Marydoll ?☹️
It's b nuisance when that happens.
Hope the rest of your day is a bit brighter ????

From your high security Spanish cell love it Grandmafrench! Describes our situation perfectly!
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GabriellaG 50 phones?? I think I’m on my 3rd.... My contact is SIM only so I buy cheap (only when absolutely necessary!) and pop the 02 SIM into the new phone (which is not a smartphone so I can’t do WhatsApp - a blessing I’m thinking). My phones cost around £20....
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An interesting post Grandmafrench Loved the story about your grandfather and the wistful penultimate paragraph. ?

A few days after Christmas I had that dry cough, nothing to expectorate but coughing until I though lungs were going to come up. Right off food, no appetite, lost about 10lbs and slept for about 22 hrs per 24. Think I mentioned in much earlier thread. Had to lie on bed in between making ancup of tea...ridiculous.
I still have the remains of the cough, just now and again during the day. Funnily enough, no temp diarrhoea or vomitting. I put it down to the same thing many others experienced around the same time. Might it have been early version of Covid-19? We have no idea, just guesswork.

Morning everyone! May you get some sunshine and settle into a new routine, Mick. CurlyW I’m so sad for your loss. Any of us with worries and wobbles will probably benefit from our new routines. We don’t want any of this, but I’d be the first to say that slowing down and finding a new rhythm and a different pattern to my days has been quite comforting. At first I panicked a lot, felt claustrophobic, had awful dreams, slept badly and was often quite miserable. That’s not me. However as the days have stretched out, I’m better adapting. I do whatever makes me feel better - at any old time, but there does seem to be a pattern to our days now and in each one if I can achieve or be pleased by something, however small, I notice that I’m generally happier and calmer. As EV has said, lord knows how it would feel if winter was approaching. But the longer, sunnier days at least can give us hope...even a little.

From your high security Spanish cell, Urmston the good days are in sight when the swifts and swallows start flying in. I was always rescuing casualties in Northern France where our house had a huge conservatory. Every species of bird was at risk when they flew towards it and in the end in Spring/Summer we had to hang small branches everywhere to show them they didn’t have an empty space to fly into! Before then, even large birds got confused. I had to use leather gauntlets once, to pick up a buzzard and again a Sparrowhawk. Small and very beautiful I could handle, like our resident Kingfisher. I came across one of his feathers tucked in one of my gardening books the other day. Happy memories. Don’t knock your ‘little life DoraM - if you’re coping, then like everyone you’ll be bound to think that it’ll do for now.

I thought yesterday as I was disinfecting the groceries .....one day soon (please) I’ll hopefully laugh at such nonsense and my behavior. Just as my DM used to struggle against laughter, to recount tales of my lovely Granddad sitting under the kitchen table with his newspaper and refusing to let that ‘little weasel’ Hitler force him down to the cellar one more time ! I try to remember the resilience of that generation and how they all kept going and then I think I’m not I’ll or in hospital, so I need to get what I can out of my day and just be grateful for that.

There are some lovely souls on this site...my only sadness is that we can’t all actually meet, sit and talk about everything and anything over tea and the endless cakes and tea bread which we’re all baking. Wouldn’t that be something !!

I’d love to comment on all the posts here but if I scroll back through the comments, I’ll lose this post. So to every single person, keep smiling, stay well, don’t lose hope even when wobbly.
Get better please, Boris. Sending sunshine and orange blossom from (a very sickly) ?? France. xxxxxxx

Good morning Mick and all from a sunny day inGlasgow.

DH did the Waitrose shop yesterday. Not very busy and he managed to get everything on the list. I noticed yesterday B&Q is still open as is The Range?. I have a list of a few things I could be doing with from B&Q but nothing I can’t live without. No way would I be visiting the store for non essentials.

We will share window cleaning today, slowly but surely. Trying to have a project a day for house/garden at our own pace but it seems like tackling the Forth Road Bridge?

Have the best day you can everyone.