Re: People's experience of covid : Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:51 pm  

First jab (AZ) I had a bit of fever starting about six hours afterwards and lasting maybe twelve hours. Second one was nothing.

Covid itself I got about a month later and was loss of smell and taste and worse than normal flu like symptoms. Lasted about a week or so all in but was on the milder end I think. I know about 15 other people who've had it and that's been the typical experience, some slightly longer to get over it.

Someone I work with quite regularly at one of our suppliers has been off for three months with really bad effects though whilst a girl in her 30s who worked for my brother unfortunately died from it last year. It's really sadly slightly random in how it affects different people.

Re: People's experience of covid : Wed Dec 08, 2021 7:24 am  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

First jab (AZ) I had a bit of fever starting about six hours afterwards and lasting maybe twelve hours. Second one was nothing.

Covid itself I got about a month later and was loss of smell and taste and worse than normal flu like symptoms. Lasted about a week or so all in but was on the milder end I think. I know about 15 other people who've had it and that's been the typical experience, some slightly longer to get over it.

Someone I work with quite regularly at one of our suppliers has been off for three months with really bad effects though whilst a girl in her 30s who worked for my brother unfortunately died from it last year. It's really sadly slightly random in how it affects different people.

Although my personal experience is fine, I do know 5 people who have died from it.
My cousins husband was the first paramedic in the country tonite from it, no underlying conditions, fit as a proverbial butchers dog, 48 years young. ZZB said it was anecdotal evidence back then and he should have just wanted to live more iirc.
I know another lad who was 50 again no underlying conditions, and the rest were between 65 and 75.

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Re: People's experience of covid : Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:30 am  

Jukesays wrote:

Although my personal experience is fine, I do know 5 people who have died from it.
My cousins husband was the first paramedic in the country tonite from it, no underlying conditions, fit as a proverbial butchers dog, 48 years young. ZZB said it was anecdotal evidence back then and he should have just wanted to live more iirc.
I know another lad who was 50 again no underlying conditions, and the rest were between 65 and 75.

So sorry you've been touched so closely by it; its absolutely hideous. My family are still very blessed to have none of us knowingly get it, not even extended family. We are very fortunate indeed.

Re: People's experience of covid : Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:39 am  

Pumpetypump wrote:

So sorry you've been touched so closely by it; its absolutely hideous. My family are still very blessed to have none of us knowingly get it, not even extended family. We are very fortunate indeed.

Amen to that

Re: People's experience of covid : Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:56 am  

Pumpetypump wrote:

So sorry you've been touched so closely by it; its absolutely hideous. My family are still very blessed to have none of us knowingly get it, not even extended family. We are very fortunate indeed.

My Son & His Girlfriend who both lives with us got it (He's a Teacher so I'm sure ZZB will think he was just skiving and ironically she works in a Lab Testing blood etc. for disease etc/) but they did the right thing and isolated for 10days in their room - My son had no symptoms, His GF did have Flu like symptoms for about 3 days or so.
The rest of our household isolated in the rest of the house for 10days

The experience my cousin and her kids/Family had with her Husband was just horrific
It was very early on (Pre Easter) and they had just started to use the turning technique etc. However, He had bee sent home from Hospital despite feeling really rough after he originally went in, The rest of the family got it, They ended up ringing one of their work colleagues 2 days later and they turned up for him, took him away and within 24hrs he was Intubated. Never saw him again until 2 weeks later when he died.
My other cousin (Her Brother) went up that night and he was speaking to me from the hospital - He said it was surreal in that outside and in A&E there was no-one - Yet through the Doors everyone was Haz Mat up and it was like a scene from MASH, it was horrendous. A family friend of ours worked on ICU so we knew what was going on with his care etc. and the nurses/doctors inside that environment were unbelievable and we will never forget their care and compassion.
He also at the time was working with a firm who were asked to procure PPE - Hospitals/councils etc. ringing 24/7 asking to get their hands on anything they could get - The stories about having no body bags for the dead etc. just blew me away and it certainly affected him.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear in years to come of Doctors/nurses etc. who are struggling with forms pf PTSD after all this.

Re: People's experience of covid : Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:24 am  

On the flip side of this, is there anyone here who still hasnt caught it?

I really dont get it. We have 3 kids of school age. 2 have had it 3 times, the other twice. My missus is in the police and has mixed with thousands of people. I do the weekly shop every single week and im in the local every friday night. Yet neither of us have seemingly caught it?

We even went to a boxing day party at a friends house where pretty much every person there caught it!

Or could we have had it and not known?

Re: People's experience of covid : Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:22 pm  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

On the flip side of this, is there anyone here who still hasnt caught it?

My wife. She works in 2 different hospitals and regularly has to scan Covid positive women. She was in our house the whole time my daughter and I had it. She was at a friend's house who tested positive the next day. She's been with numerous family members who have tested positive. She's been having to do regular LFTs and taken PCRs whenever she has felt off it, as part of work guidance, and not once has she tested positive. Even as all around us were catching it over Christmas and New Year she managed to come through uninfected.

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Re: People's experience of covid : Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:32 pm  

I haven't had it, or my children, or their mum, or grandparents. I had my booster on Wednesday which was dose 3 of Pfizer (I thought we got given a cocktail but apparently not always), and despite being fine with jabs one and two, I struggled with this one. Had to rock myself just to get up out of the chair and generally felt crap for 36 hours. That's so far been the extent of my brush with it.

Re: People's experience of covid : Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:02 pm  

Fortunately I have avoided Covid - my wife and I are sensible in what we do - had the Pfizer 3 times only sympton sore arm - lucky.

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Re: People's experience of covid : Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:34 pm  

My wife had it over Christmas. She is triple-dose vaccinated, felt crap for a couple of days but is now mostly fine except for slightly itchy eyes. I managed to avoid getting it, despite living in the same house.