Self Isolation Could be coronavirus OR a sinus infection OR a cold OR...

Lorcan

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So I'm (as of last night some time) self isolating. I'm not even sure the symptoms fit properly but I'd rather not risk it, I live with (as in, the block of flats I live in houses) too many asthmatics to be flippant about it. Between the coughing, sneezing, headaches, inability to eat and drink properly, subsequent dehydration, and the fact I keep flitting between "oh my god it's freezing" and "oh my god who turned the heating up"...

Yeah, I know, symptoms right. Pretty sure it's actually just a sinus infection but safety first. I could really use some painkillers right now lol.
 
Oh bless you, no paracetamol in? I have a cold at the minute. Just a runny nose and bit of sinus pain but can't be too careful
 
Nope, lol. I can't take the tablets though, just Calpol, and that's expensive in comparison. And I'm burning through ibuprofen at a ridiculous rate because of it. Plus I'm missing my stomach meds atm, so I shouldn't be taking ibuprofen either...

Painkillers and crisps, that's what I need. And non-dairy milk and vanilla Complan. It's an acceptable food substitute, right? Or Slimfast. Basically if you can't eat, try and drink it instead, and that goes for everyone.

All our communal areas are supposed to be closed off, but they won't lock up our communal lounge because it's a fire door. So we have one pillock who lives in the other block who keeps making the sofas in the lounge into a bed and then sleeping in there instead. He's got one guy moving out of the other block permanently because he says if he doesn't leave he'll probably kill him and he'd rather be on the streets than in prison for it. Some people just won't be helped, and this doofus is one of them.
 
Get well soon, can you manage soup! That’s comforting when you are poorly x
 
Hope you feel better soon. I kept feeling hot but shivering at the same time at work yesterday and was panicking. Once I took my temperature at home and found I was in the normal range, it was a huge relief.
 
Feel better soon! I hope its just a sinus infection :( good idea with the complan, i've been doing the same. I still havent regained enough weight from a sickness bug I got last month to face another illness any time soon I stick my complan in a smoothie maker with a banana, peanut butter and vanilla icecream, practically doubles the calories with minimal effort and minus the icecream, it's relatively healthy.
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
How are you today, @Lorcan ? Ok, I hope !
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Grumpy mostly. Still can't eat (well I can, but I'm only going to have so many mugs of miso soup in a day, y'know?), still no painkillers, that pillock is STILL downstairs when he shouldn't be. I've got the Tesco delivery coming on Thursday (fingers crossed) but I don't know if they're going to be able to get in - my buzzer STILL doesn't work and you have to open the second door manually, and I can't go downstairs, so they likely won't even be able to get in the building.

I am kind of having to bank on my social worker staying on duty for the next couple of weeks. To say I'm screwed if she's not in is an understatement.
 
Fingers crossed for Tesco delivery. They do appreciate the need for delivery to people during this crisis.
 
Is it bad that all I want out of the delivery is cola, crisps, tobacco and more miso paste? The miso's easy on the stomach, the crisps I can keep coming back to because I can't eat much in one go, and tobacco and cola...I've already had 4 days of no medication (there's a long, very complicated explanation behind that. Go with it. No meds) and I don't know if I can cold turkey 3 things this month. I don't know if my sanity could handle it never mind anything else...
 
How you doing today buddy? Feeling any better?
 
I'm hungry, which is a good sign right? But I can't regulate my body temperature well at all, if I eat something hot then my temperature seems to spike which is uncomfortable, to say the least. I can't sleep on a schedule, I'm still not drinking nearly enough but I'm too full to drink more, that sort of thing. My week is supposed to be up on Friday and honestly I dunno if it's a good idea to stop on Friday or not.
 
Sounds like you are still poorly, mate. Not everyone is better in 7 days. Good that you have a bit of an appetite. Keep up the fluids.
 
So today has been...interesting. I'm still not feeling great, went outside (well, outside, I live in a block of flats, I went towards the main door but not actually outside) twice, once to pick up a couple of Amazon boxes. The Amazon delivery guy is great, he leaves the stuff just in or just outside the main door, buzzes my door, waits til he sees me come down the stairs then waves to tell me where the boxes are before he goes. The other time was to get my meds. I hadn't actually taken any for a week because I was that stubborn about letting someone else inside the flat, and tbh I still nearly threw something at the guys head today because a) he magically thought my buzzer had been fixed but no, it's not, and I hate people making assumptions like that and b) I had something I needed to give him, so he asked for it, and I sat there with it in my hand for about 5 minutes before he's like "Oh is that it? What is it?" Head, meet hand.

I'm still going with this being a sinus infection. I still feel the need to blow my nose every 5 seconds except I can't because there's nothing there to blow. My ears are still acting up and whilst I did eat yesterday, I spent most of last night being very ill for my trouble. Don't not eat for a week and then eat turkey pieces, especially not with IBS lol.

Plus a friend messaged me yesterday and asked if I wanted a bunch of embroidery thread and floss that I know costs a fortune. ALL THE CRAFTS.
 
Lorcan said:
So today has been...interesting. I'm still not feeling great, went outside (well, outside, I live in a block of flats, I went towards the main door but not actually outside) twice, once to pick up a couple of Amazon boxes. The Amazon delivery guy is great, he leaves the stuff just in or just outside the main door, buzzes my door, waits til he sees me come down the stairs then waves to tell me where the boxes are before he goes. The other time was to get my meds. I hadn't actually taken any for a week because I was that stubborn about letting someone else inside the flat, and tbh I still nearly threw something at the guys head today because a) he magically thought my buzzer had been fixed but no, it's not, and I hate people making assumptions like that and b) I had something I needed to give him, so he asked for it, and I sat there with it in my hand for about 5 minutes before he's like "Oh is that it? What is it?" Head, meet hand.

I'm still going with this being a sinus infection. I still feel the need to blow my nose every 5 seconds except I can't because there's nothing there to blow. My ears are still acting up and whilst I did eat yesterday, I spent most of last night being very ill for my trouble. Don't not eat for a week and then eat turkey pieces, especially not with IBS lol.

Plus a friend messaged me yesterday and asked if I wanted a bunch of embroidery thread and floss that I know costs a fortune. ALL THE CRAFTS.
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:) I think they're meant to ring and run away now, stay strong, you'll be fine, but do try and keep eating :) Then get to the sewing stuff when you're better, I'm a 30 waist fyi :P
 
Whoever this Amazon guy is, he's been doing this since February. He's great, if I thought there was any point to telling Amazon how damn good the guy is I'd do it. Because my buzzer doesn't work properly - it'll buzz but we can't hear anything over the speakers so I have to come downstairs to see who it is anyway. He realised this, and because he knows it's me he's delivering to he started just waiting til he could see me on the stairs.

Also I can't sew for toffee. That's my mum's forté. I'm your guy for kumihimo and macramé lol.
 
Lorcan said:
Whoever this Amazon guy is, he's been doing this since February. He's great, if I thought there was any point to telling Amazon how damn good the guy is I'd do it. Because my buzzer doesn't work properly - it'll buzz but we can't hear anything over the speakers so I have to come downstairs to see who it is anyway. He realised this, and because he knows it's me he's delivering to he started just waiting til he could see me on the stairs.

Also I can't sew for toffee. That's my mum's forté. I'm your guy for kumihimo and macramé lol.
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Had a UPS guy a few years ago that thought I was still at school, wanted to know what I was doing with a technical screwdriver set and six cans of compressed air XD.
 
Falken said:
Had a UPS guy a few years ago that thought I was still at school, wanted to know what I was doing with a technical screwdriver set and six cans of compressed air XD.
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It's like when the police put the board up to cover my mate's door a few weeks back and he needed in to get his phone charger, and I looked at the board and went, "I remember they drilled those screws in. Bet it wouldn't take much to screw them out." "But Lorcán, I don't have a screwdriver." Well mate I have about 50, so let's go lol.
 
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