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halobeam

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9. Seems nearly everyone is either sick,

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2018, 07:08 PM

Jan 2018

getting sick or getting over being sick. If not them, then definitely someone they know is.

It's a brutal season, this one. I haven't heard of anyone getting flu yet. It's either a cold turned bronchitis/pneumonia, or some nasty virus, like norovirus.

I hope your xray comes out clean! Take care of yourself as if it hadn't.. and watch out for others! It's the time you are most vulnerable to catch the next thing you are exposed to.

Let us know how things go for you!

Hugs n all ...

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I am just so damned sick...trying to just "outlast" a bad cold but coughing so bad today I noticed [View all] CTyankee Jan 2018 OP

Best wishes to you. n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2018 #1

thanks for the kind words...I'll let DU folks know how it goes... CTyankee Jan 2018 #2

Be well, CTYankee! Dennis Donovan Jan 2018 #3

well, my voice ain't so great just now...I sound really awful. CTyankee Jan 2018 #8

Keep on top of it, CTYankee. brer cat Jan 2018 #4

Be well, yank. elleng Jan 2018 #5

Get the x ray . Do as little as possible . I hope your husband doesn't get it . Take care lunasun Jan 2018 #6

I got sick the 30th and diag myself.... jodymarie aimee Jan 2018 #7

Well, if it weren't for my neighbors and friends helping me I wouldn't have gotten over to the CTyankee Jan 2018 #10

Seems nearly everyone is either sick, halobeam Jan 2018 #9

I have been fighting the same cold since early December Gothmog Jan 2018 #11

Sending you healing thoughts! MLAA Jan 2018 #12

Be well, dear Bayard Jan 2018 #13

It seems quite a few people that have had dewsgirl Jan 2018 #14

I was told it is the flu. Just now getting over it. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2018 #15

As an elementary school teacher I was sick 80% BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #16

thank you. I am taking your advice and following up with my chest x ray and taking the antibiotics CTyankee Jan 2018 #17

GOOD! Learn from others like me. BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #18

I take cabs or call on friends to take me when my husband can't. CTyankee Jan 2018 #19

Great husband AND GOOD LOCATION! BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #20