Got a cold...tell us ALLLLL about it!!!

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

02/07/2013 08:52:37 PM · #1

And now for something completely different and to keep us all from going stir crazy waiting for whatever comes in the night -

I have a headcold. Picked it up approx a week ago, it is finally on its way out but it is still a misery to experience. Gone are the runny nose and sore throat, now it is great whacking chest coughs and *expectorating* globs of yucky stuff.

And the stuffed-up sinuses!! Oh glory, as of about 3 this afternoon when I last blew a humngous wad of crap out my nose, I can hear about 50% in my right ear and 98% not at all in my left all due to this mutha****** having me over a barrel. And not only will I have to take a whacking great swig of foul horsepiss-and-worse Nyquil to zonk me out and ensure that I sleep through the night, I then have to rise at 7 am tomorrow morning so I can be on my merry workday!!

So if YOU have cold-inflicted miseries....share them here. Get em off (or out of) your chest!!! You got nothin to lose but GERMS!!! And less germs are good!!!

Strikeslip

Canon EOS-5D

02/07/2013 09:16:54 PM · #2

:-O

Message edited by author 2013-02-08 07:15:35.

Strikeslip

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

02/07/2013 09:17:58 PM · #3

;-)

Message edited by author 2013-02-08 07:15:50.

Fujifilm XF 10-24mm f/4 R IOS

02/07/2013 09:21:51 PM · #4

What on earth constitutes a safe zone in Slippyland...and I avoid do you mean penises belonging to strangers or penises that are just strange....just askin...;-p

markwiley

Fujifilm X-Pro2

02/07/2013 11:03:36 PM · #5

Originally posted by snaffles:

What on earth constitutes a safe zone in Slippyland...

Outside a 1 mile radius of Slippy?

MattO

Nikon D4

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

02/08/2013 12:05:29 AM · #6

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

1. Keep your dang hands off your face unless they've been washed!
2. Assume your hands are contaminated until they've been washed and you're in a safe zone.
3. Don't put your mouth on a strange penis.

How many times a day do you have to tell yourself not to do number 3?

Matt

MattO

Nikon D4

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

02/08/2013 12:06:17 AM · #7

Originally posted by MattO:

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

1. Keep your dang hands off your face unless they've been washed!
2. Assume your hands are contaminated until they've been washed and you're in a safe zone.
3. Don't put your mouth on a strange penis.

Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Those are my daily rules.

How many times a day do you have to tell yourself not to do number 3?

Matt

Message edited by author 2013-02-08 00:06:59.

Strikeslip

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

02/08/2013 07:17:28 AM · #8

Hey, shame on you making up embarrassing quotes under my name! ;-D

(That's what I get for posting while drinking too much whiskey and attempting to be funny, sorry snaffles)

Message edited by author 2013-02-08 07:18:18.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS II USM Lens

02/08/2013 07:43:05 AM · #9

Hey, I been horking up chunks of phlegmy esophagus all morning, no worries, im good!!

hahn23

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

02/08/2013 01:21:51 PM · #10

Pertussis outbreak sparks debate over effectiveness of the vaccine

Most of us are vaccinated against Whooping Cough (Pertussis) at an early age. This winter, I am hearing about outbreaks of Pertussis, with some individuals suffering severe coughing and pneumonia-like symptoms for several weeks.

MattO

Nikon D4

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

02/08/2013 02:42:04 PM · #11

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Hey, shame on you making up embarrassing quotes under my name! ;-D

(That's what I get for posting while drinking too much whiskey and attempting to be funny, sorry snaffles)

LOL I wondered if you had been hitting the bottle! But had to quote it for all eternity to stay online!

Matt

Ann

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro

02/08/2013 04:29:39 PM · #12

Originally posted by hahn23:

No vaccine is 100% effective. I think I read that the early polio vaccine was only effective for 60% of the population, for example. How vaccines work is that *enough* people are effectively vaccinated that there aren't enough people in the population who can get (and then transmit) the disease for the disease to spread. It's called "population-based immunity."

One of the problems we have in modern times is that a significant number of parents aren't vaccinating their kids out of some misguided ideas about relative risk. If a vaccine is 60% effective and 100% of people are vaccinated, that's probably enough to stop a disease from spreading. But if a vaccine is 60% effective and only 60% of people are vaccinated, then you're going to have epidemics, and you'll find out which people the vaccine wasn't effective for. The problem they're finding with the DTaP vaccine is that, while the vaccine's efficacy is around 85% overall, it's actually 95% immediately after the kid gets the last dose, but after 5 years, the efficacy drops to 71%, which is just barely adequate to protect the population.

While the researchers are developing a more effective vaccine, the solution to the problem is not less vaccination, it's to get everyone vaccinated, so that population-based immunity kicks in, and the kids for whom the vaccine doesn't work are protected by everyone else.

Most of us are young enough that vaccines have always been readily available. But when my Dad was in school, every year a couple of his classmates died of things like mumps, measles, polio, and diphtheria. He can't imagine why anyone *wouldn't* vaccinate their kids.

Ann

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro

02/08/2013 04:32:03 PM · #13

I went to the Dr. this morning (for something that wasn't a cold). The nurse took my temp, and it was 100.5.

"Ack! You've got a fever! Let me get you a mask!"

"No, no, I just finished a cup of coffee on the way into the building."

"Oh, good. Whew!"

Apparently I was the only one on the Dr's schedule today who wasn't there for a cold or the flu.