Wm.Traynor wrote:For the last 7 days I have been treated in hospital for pneumonia. I still don't know for sure how I got it but shoveling grass clippings into the wheelie bin is my main suspect. It is hard for me to believe how badly it weakened me, physically. Somehow, I found myself on the floor and I was completely unable to get up. Imagine that! My wife could not help and rang the ambulance and they discovered that I had a temperature Who knew that?
All this is by way of saying, "Be Damn Careful Out There!"
Die Judicii wrote:There is a vaccine available (very effective) called "Pneumovax"
I've had two shots of it,, the first one was quite some years ago now, after I very nearly died from pneumonia in FNQ.
And I've never been struck down by it since.
If you haven't already had a dose or two by now it would be worth your while asking your Quack about it.
Blr243 wrote:I was chasing pigs with dogs one night in Cunnamulla about 1am when all the boring normal people should be home in bed ....mid stride I felt a huge bang in my chest as if a bullet ripped thru me .....it floored me , and ambo come get me. Very painful to move with pneumonia
NTSOG wrote:G'day All,
Because I am now considered 'elderly', i.e. over 70, and my immune system is dodgy due to Leukaemia I front up for the free 'flu and pneumonia inoculations each year in April. I would also like to get the shingles vaccination, but the shingles vaccines available are not safe for me due them containing live[?] virus in some form or other. It's better to be safe than sorry. Anyway there are more than enough ways around the farm for me to do myself an injury without me catching some bug.
Jim
Blr243 wrote:I remember once that night I was feeling buggered so I walked up to a concrete cattle trough so I could sit down on the edge of it. As I did so there in the middle of the night trying to catch my breath I started to realise there was something wrong with me and later back at the quarters I was sitting on the floor sort of incoherrant struggling with the phone book and the telephone and I struggled to find the energy to even ring the ambulance
cz515 wrote:I'll say it as no one else did.
COVID
NTSOG wrote:G'day All,
Because I am now considered 'elderly', i.e. over 70, and my immune system is dodgy due to Leukaemia I front up for the free 'flu and pneumonia inoculations each year in April. I would also like to get the shingles vaccination, but the shingles vaccines available are not safe for me due them containing live[?] virus in some form or other. It's better to be safe than sorry. Anyway there are more than enough ways around the farm for me to do myself an injury without me catching some bug.
Jim
Blr243 wrote:No blade I was feeling a bit tired and weathered for 2-3 day’s beforehand , a touch more knocked up than usual when hunting hard for a while ....it was sort of coming and going but I was feeling sort of ok like I could run again so I let the dogs off when I heard a mob of pigs bust thru a fence in the dark beside me , then I jumped off the quad and started running , then about 150 m away I got the Big Bang in my chest. Doctor told me later inflamed lung tissue from my mild case of pneumonia hurts like hell when the lung rubs up against your ribs , and when your running trying to catch up to the dogs there’s lots of that rubbing goin on. Later at the hospital trying to move from one bed to another I was slow like a 90 yr old man. And moving just one millimetre was awful painful
NTSOG wrote:bladeracer: "A neighbour of ours got nailed by shingles about a year ago, spent months off work in pain. Recovered now but it was nasty."
I understand shingles is pretty bad. I have a faint memory from when I was ten years of my father being knocked flat in his fifties by the illness.
The oncologist who keeps an eye on me told me, that since vaccination was not possible with live virus vaccines, I should buy an over-the-counter medication from the chemist called Famciclovir Once and, at the first hint of a cold sore, take the dose of three tablets. Touch wood that I never have to. Time will tell.
Jim