The other C word (Covid)

Oh dear. Please keep us informed as to how you are x

Oh Doodledog I’m so sorry. I hope you recover soon. It’s a miserable illness, I know because I had it badly and was hospitalised as you know. Please watch your oxygen levels, you’ve obviously got a oximeter. When my levels hit 82 the ambulance came within 15 minutes. 88 is very low, so keep an eye on that. Call the ambulance if it goes lower. Hopefully it won’t as you’ve said it’s recovered a bit. Take care. Get well.

Thanks, both of you. I’m resting up and luckily my husband is a better nurse than I am😀

Doodlebug 💐

Sorry, brain fog, (and I don't have Covid) that was meant for Doodledog.

Doodledog

Really sorry to hear you've been infected.

I'm glad Mr Dog is looking after you well!

Wishing you well - as soon as possible.

So sorry covid found you Doodle. I’m hearing so many people locally have it, seems to be gathering strength as it wanders amongst us
Great to hear you have mr Dog to care for you. Rest and get well soon x

Sorry to hear this Doodledog.

It's really unpleasant and I hope you feel better soon and that your DH doesn't succumb.

Doodledog I'm so sorry to hear how ill you are.
Please try to sit up as much as you can, even if just sitting up in bed, as that is better for your lungs than lying down.

Thanks, NittWitt, that’s good advice. I am propped up with pillows but am still sleeping a lot, which I can’t do sitting up. Mr Dog is bringing me some toast in a minute. I’m not hungry but as I haven’t eaten since Thursday I think I should try to eat it.

I’ve just remembered something I was told in the hospital that might help you. I was told to sit up as far as it was possible and lean towards the left side. I was told it helps your breathing. I then realised I had been doing that naturally at home, propped up with several pillows.
You could give it a try, it might help.

Thanks maddie.

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In case you hadn’t noticed, this thread is about covid, not heart disease. Many posters and their families have heart problems, in some cases very severe problems. Unfortunately though, you can’t be vaccinated against heart disease - but you can be vaccinated against covid.

Perhaps you should start a thread about heart disease. You would find out just how many suffer from it and just how aware we are.

I have reported it too.
I have congestive heart failure, you cannot immunise against it.
However, Covid will kill many with heart conditions, but immunisation may lessen the risk of death. That's why it is important to have Covid vaccinations.
You haven't a clue, Username.

Agreed.

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Usernametaken

Germanshepherdsmum

You need to familiarise yourself with the talk guidelines here if you want to avoid having posts deleted.

In case you hadn’t noticed, this thread is about covid, not heart disease. Many posters and their families have heart problems, in some cases very severe problems. Unfortunately though, you can’t be vaccinated against heart disease - but you can be vaccinated against covid.

Perhaps you should start a thread about heart disease. You would find out just how many suffer from it and just how aware we are.

The heart attacks are caused by the jab. Surely you’ve heard about the sudden deaths.
The covid jab wasn’t tested enough, just a way to make the Pharmaceutical companies money

Evidence please?

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Usernametaken

I’ll say this again for those that missed it. In the UK, for the last 18 months, over 500 extra people a week are dying from heart attacks! Where is the fucking noise about this!? One covid death and you were outraged but now over 500 a week just from heart attacks and you are silent? Why does one way of dying get more attention than another? Why were you only bothered when it was about covid? Is it because the TV is not telling you to be bothered? It’s insane how you can switch from shouting abuse to the unvaccinated, the none mask wearers to now complete silence. Absolute hypocrites!

I will echo what Germanshepherdsmum has said - start a thread about heart disease, and find out for yourself what members of GN think about it.

I doubt very much you were reported because you had a different opinion to GSM, more likely - if the above post is anything to go by - because of your aggression (not to mention the language used to express it).

As for the insinuation that GSM - or any of us - are somehow controlled by what we watch on the TV - that is a tactic that won't work on here. Why do you assume that no-one looks at various sources of information - including scientific papers, studies and statistics?

Heart disease, and the deaths since the start of the pandemic is a valid concern - but it has many causes, among them ambulance delays, lack of access to timely care, and ever-increasing waiting lists... problems which, though intensified by the pandemic, were inherent in the health-care system prior to it.

Not scientific data, but anacdotal. Sorry you have failed to convince me.

I will repeat again, vaccination prevented me from dying of Covid.
I was in hospital for less than twenty four hours, when I had a second heart attack, right in the middle of the pandemic. FYI, it wasn't caused by the Covid vaccine.
There was no bed for me, because many of the beds were taken up by unvaccinated Covid patients, and as someone who is CEV, it wasn't a safe place for me to be anyway, according to my clinicians.
I know who I prefer to believe.

Thank you Dickens for yet again, a very reasoned post.

I’ve reported your posts usernametaken, I can’t recall the last time I reported anything
You’re spouting conspiracy theories which are rejected by scientists and doctors.
I’m all for discussion about the level of risk posed by the original and successive variants, the balance of risk between lock downs and no lock down. Covid was new, it was an international epidemic. I feel able to criticise my government whilst acknowledging it was dealing with the unknown.

Reporting your posts isn’t stopping Freedom of speech. You’re breaching guidelines in the way you address those of us who disagree with your conspiracy theories

We don’t need unsupported anti-vax propaganda here, thanks. Please post somewhere else.