@ghandigirl, @stardancer, @unk-p, @jeanne-mayell, @laura-f, @bluebelle, @baba, and everyone,
Thank you all for your kind messages, healing light, and well wishes. I love all of you.
@unk-p, I had the flu about 4 years ago and my doctor gave me Tamiflu. After I read all of the side effects and considered my sensitivities to meds, I decided not to take it and rode it out.
@laura-f, I didn't make myself clear earlier, but the hospital did send my husband home. The doctor said if we kept everyone who came in here with the flu, they'd be sleeping on the floors. She said had he been much worse, had another serious illness, or was 84 instead of 64, they would have kept him. Even though there was a little smudge of gunk on his lungs, she believed that the antibiotic would clear that up. He'll need another lung x-ray in 10 days.
I'm disinfecting everything around me with Clorox wipes, but of course he still touches stuff and sometimes forgets to cover his mouth when he coughs. Great idea about cleaning the bed linens and airing things out. Even though I'm sure I've already been exposed to his germs, it may still help. My prayer is that my body is able to fight it off. I have autoimmune problems, so this sort of exposure concerns me. Right now I feel very fatigued but I often feel that way, so it's hard to tell. I have a sinus headache, slight cough and mild congestion and drainage in my head. No fever.
Oh, forgot to mention: when we were in the ER my nervous system was on overdrive. So I did the vagal exercise I spoke about in an earlier post and it helped. I still felt wiped out from the beeping, bright lights, all the sick people, and the general energy of the place, but my sympathetic nervous system noticeably calmed down.
And, @laura-f, FYI about that vagal exercise: in the book Rosenberg mentioned that the exercises can help some people with asthma and COPD. He wanted to do a long asthma research study as it relates to the polyvagal theory, but decided to focus on autism instead. Anyway, just wanted to mention it.
Continue to think of you, both..carrying you in my heart throughout the day. Sending love and peace. ❤️
Two disastrous nights in a row. Panicking while half asleep last night. Yelling. My man was there and held me but it kept reoccuring. He held me each time.
I am tired and feel demoralized.
So I am going to focus outward and send love to kitty Lewis, and "Mr. Detoo" (that made me laugh) and Cari Elana and Lilli and Laura and Detoo, and all others who are ill.
Focusing on myself is only causing depression.
May tonight be easier for me. May all who need healing have access.
My man had the flu recently. I have had a flu shot, he hadn't.
The first thing I did was to wash all the bedding and wipe down all doorknobs. We don't live together, but he is always here. So he quarintined himself at his place and I saw him for maybe 5-10 minutes a day for 7 days in a row. He stilll has a loose cough but is much recovered.
Wash your hands and don't touch your face. That is important to stave it off.
@triciact, thank you!
@ghandigirl, my husband gets the flu shots every year. I don't. And it seems like he often gets sicker with respiratory stuff than I do. I think the head and chest problems are his achilles heel. My body is different -- I've had some strange, ongoing autoimmune and autonomic dysfunction problems for the past two decades.
My husband is sleeping in a separate bedroom, but I wish I could quarantine him even more -- with big doses of TLC, of course. ?
thank you everyone for all your help with Lilli the dog and little Lewis, the cat. There were three litters rescued from a hoarding situation. We had one litter of five, including Lewis. Unfortunately all the kittens in all the litters passed away; they were all very sick. So Lewis and his siblings are gone, very sick with respiratory (he was the sickest by far). The mom is in isolation. We feel terrible.
Lilli is doing okay after her surgery and is going to be seeing a vet specializing in Chinese medicine next week, and Sue her owner is going to try a round of chemo to see how it goes unless the Chinese vet has any suggestions.
However, this morning, my cousin Frank emailed my brother saying it was too bad about our cousin yada yada - we found out my cousin had lung cancer for five years, had chemo and a lung removal, and was in ICU the last week and died last night. No one except I guess in her own family knew she was ill. We're all upset and wishing we'd known to support the family. This particular branch of the family is on the odd side - they never told us my aunt died until she had been dead a couple of days; ditto their sister - again, we didn't know she was sick. A family of no information, not even need to know!
@detoo Sending you lots of love and healing energy.
@ghandigirl, I don't wish to further complicate matters, but have you ever had a sleep study done?