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I did think about food poisoning, since the 4 of us went to a new restaurant yesterday for lunch. I was so full after that, that I didn't have dinner; we had a get together for Scott and Alaina, so I ate a few desserts (small cookies, pastries), drank some decaf, and had a few slices of chicken breast before bed. I would think that it would have hit me earlier if it were food poisoning.
I had something like this about 3 years ago, where I was actually lying on the floor of the teacher's bathroom at school, figuring out how I could make it home without getting sick in my car. It only lasted a day and a half, so I am praying it's a similar bug. No one else is sick. I can't even stand the sight of food. We are all going out for New Years (both sons and their SOs), so I need to get better.
The weather is so frightful, too that it's making me feel worse. The wind must be blowing at 40 mph and it's freezing. I know being sick is putting me in a bad mood, since I normally deal with winter quite well. Now I'm getting a caffeine withdrawal headache!

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Originally Posted by Crankin

Now I'm getting a caffeine withdrawal headache!

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Or a dehydration headache?

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Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

Wow, that sounds awful! H1N1 is supposed to produce a very high fever, and that's what my friends who had it said too...like 104F-105F.
Burning stomach?, aching everywhere?- that sounds weird. Food poisoning?

I hope you feel better soon. :(

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Some folks don't get the high fever. (I didn't) One of the hallmarks of H1N1 is that it has more gut involvement than the usual flu.

If the weather is too frightful to go out, you might want to ask your doc if he/she can give you a quick phone consult.

Do you have vampire glow-in-the-dark red eyes?

dagnabbit I forgot to do my 50 jumps today:mad:

I don't have vampire eyes. My temperature went up to 100.5 last night, which is a raging fever for me. Tylenol brought it right down. Stomach is a bit better today, but I am still aching all over and my chest/glands feel a bit weird. No real coughing or sneezing. Woke up with a temp. of 99.
Just called doctor and they have no openings until Monday! I guess I'll ride it out. Taking one extra strength Tylenol brings down the low grade fever and makes me feel better. I was able to eat breakfast and (most importantly) drink a cup of coffee. Of course, on the front of the Boston Globe was a story about how asthmatics are the most prone to complications of H1N1. I guess I need to stop obsessing, since I am not sure I have it and I am not having trouble breathing.

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dagnabbit I forgot to do my 50 jumps today:mad:

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I did 60. And rode my bike to work this morning. Now I can start the day happy. :)

If you really think you have H1N1, you'd better get to the doctor before Monday. Tamiful doesn't do a thing after the first, what? 48 hours?

My grandson had H1N1 but no respiratory or GI symptoms at all. Just high fever and lethargic, and then the strep bacteria took advantage and infiltrated his blood and he ended up in the hospital. But still no symptoms other than a high fever and lethargy. I guess the mileage varies according to the person.

Karen

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I did 60. And rode my bike to work this morning. Now I can start the day happy. :)

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So what is this "jump" thing?
Explain? Is there more on this earlier in this thread?

I have to stop thinking I have H1N1. My fever has stayed down so far today, after the initial Tylenol dose. I will go to a mini clinic if it gets worse. Most of what I have is how I always feel when I get sick; the stomach stuff is what is unusual.
I just wish I was able to go out with my son while he is here!

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Originally Posted by katluvr

So what is this "jump" thing?

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I forgot what thread that was in.

The essence is that jumping up and down in place provides sufficient impact exercise for bone health.

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So what is this "jump" thing?
Explain? Is there more on this earlier in this thread?

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Read this thread on osteopena.

Some evIl person brought 3 flavors of fudge to the office.....

Must resist, must resist.....:o

Does running 16-1/2 miles count, or do I have to do 50 jumps too? ;)

I suppose most everyone's had their share of drama the past few days, but I think I got someone else's share too. Anyway, we just finished Christmas dinner, and it was delicious. Pecan pie's cooling - eggbeater's in the freezer for the whipped cream -

No drama at my house:)

and...the UPS man brought me some xc skis!
I love you, UPS Man.

See? I got your share.

I'm making some yummy yet probably very bad food for tonight's dinner w friends...

mmmmm....

I ended up going to the Minute Clinic at CVS. What a waste. But, I did achieve my goal of having someone listen to my chest. Nothing going on there, even though I feel like it is just "off." Definitely feeling better as the day went on, but my temperature was still going up to 99 every 6-8 hours or so. Ate normally pretty much.
Woke up this morning feeling pretty good compared to yesterday, but stomach still cranky. Sticking to Zantac and Mylanta for that. Temperature was 98.9, not horrible, but not normal either. I've been taking one Tylenol a couple of times a day for that. Now I'm getting antsy about not exercising and thinking about doing some yoga at least. I suspect some of this is stress related to my son's visit, but I don't like the idea of the low grade fever.

Crankin, are you pretty certain this is just a bug and not something else? (You know your body best!)

I hope you start to feel better on your own, but if you don't, please don't wait too long to see a doctor.

Hang in there Crankin. Hope you feel better soon.

NbyNW, I have a long history of weird things that turn out to be nothing; or at least nothing that anyone can diagnose. Two years ago I had all kinds of strange medical things... nothing definitive came up. And believe me, I had every test known to mankind. I was sort of diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, but now my rheumatologist is not 100% sure. Mostly everything I'm having is stuff I have had before, except the fever. I can go to the doctor feeling like I have swollen glands, an ear infection, stomach pain, and upon exam I have no swollen anything or sore throat, etc. The only things I do have are mild asthma and allergies and that osteoporosis thing.
I will go to the doctor if I'm not better by next week. The stomach thing I'm having is in the same place I've always had it. So, I'm a bit more cautious about how often I go to the doctor. There's no way I want to start on another endless round of specialists! I know I don't have H1N1, so that's a relief.

Here's some inspiring reading..sad but inspiring...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap...s-1853937.html

I would like to have some bongos and a large primitive drum to play in a drum circle.

I'd join you but not today as it's too hot...38C...It's an insidenstayoutofthesunshinewherethere'snoshade day...:mad::( I had a hard time riding home monday with the warm wind & no shade....ugh

too many people have been getting anthrax from drum heads lately! I want to go to a drum circle next week but I think I'll stay upwind.

My friend got a "Wii fit" for Xmas, and the thing told her she's obese. I'm bummed, because she was seeming happier lately, and now she's depressed again. I might add, she doesn't look anything close to obese. It's just so stupid.

I feel like "accidentally" breaking it for her. I could borrow it, and run it over with my car. :cool: I'm sure she'd be heartbroken.

Who thought it would be a good idea to include that information?

Idiots.

I am going x country skiing with a group tomorrow. Let's pray I don't get "dropped."

I'm not a big fan of this Wii Fit thing..what a waste of time..why not just go outside for a walk or get a swiss ball & do exercises?? I don't get it...

Anywho...i thought I would try & get an afternoon swim in but didn't think of looking @ the timetable prior to leaving earlier this morning for work. Never try & go swimming during the looonnnggg school holidays :rolleyes: :mad: without looking @ the timetable..(Our squad pm sessions don't start up again til Mon...I shall wait til then...)

CC, I'm with you on the Wii thing. Of course, I have never played a video game, never will. Go take a walk or buy a dvd, if you can't get out. It's like when I went to Disney World (against my priniciples, but my DH was at a conference). We went to that place (my mind is absolutely blank) where you go on a boat to the island that has the fake representations of different parts of the world. There were some people that thought this was actually like the real thing. Then, another night we went out to dinner at a restaurant which was actually quite good. But, afterwards, we decided to take a walk around the town (this is a real place, with houses, schools) that had been billed as "a throwback to the real thing. A place where there's a town center and people know their neighbors." I got a weird feeling, like a chill, when I realized what the developers were trying to re-create was exactly what I have in real life. They had tried to re-create a typical New England town, one that was suspiciously like the town I live in. Like it was a thing from the past.
I had to leave immediately.
I know a lot of people will disagree with me on the Wii thing, but why spend money on electronics, when you can get fit for very little money.

On one hand, I'm all for people getting off of their couches. If they spend a bunch of $$, maybe the guilt will get them to exercise. But will it eventually go the way of the Nintendo? Probably.

I didn't know it could pronounce a person as obese. That's insane. Even BMI has been shown to be incorrect if a person has a lot of muscle mass.

Like Crankin, I don't play video games & prefer the real thing to an animated TV thing.

Because guiding a marble down a hole, guiding a bubble down a river, or dropping marbles into the correct buckets using both your hands and your feet - sometimes in opposition - are a whole lot more fun than any proprioceptive exercises someone's trainer will give them. Sure you can spend an hour working only on balance and proprioception, but how motivated is anyone to do that day after day?

Because if you already have a Wii box, the balance board only costs about $30 more than a good wobble board.

Because it gives you on-screen feedback on your balance and center, whereas on a wobble board, you're either stable with all the edges off the ground, or you're not. If you're leaning slightly to the left, you'd never know.

Because most people, DEFINITELY including me, can't stand up on a Swiss ball (or even a small ball). Suggesting exercises standing on a Swiss ball as a substitute for Wii balance exercises is like telling someone to do full pull-ups as a substitute for 20# cable pull-downs. Great if you can do it, but too challenging even for most active people.

Because there is no "real game" to correspond to most of the balance games, and if someone went to the trouble and expense of re-creating many of those games in the physical world, any one of them would be WAY more expensive than a Wii, and many would have a really high risk of falling.


I guarantee you neither my mother (who's actually very motivated) nor my mother-in-law (who isn't particularly) would be doing ANY proprioceptive work if it weren't for their Wiis. If it'll keep them from falling and breaking a hip, then hear, hear.

Yes, the BMI thing is worse than stupid, but take that up with the medical/weight loss establishment that pushes it so hard. I might add, IMO the Wii's obsessive focus on small weight fluctuations is even more damaging than its reliance on BMI. You can always skip the weigh-in on the Wii. I do, even though I weigh myself almost daily on a non-talking scale. Four pounds is a typical weight fluctuation for me, and I can do without a machine criticizing me because I'm better hydrated one day than I was the day before, or ate more fiber at lunch, or whatever. But another thing to take into account is that apparently this machine acts EXACTLY like the weight-loss establishment. My mom has been going to TOPS/KOPS for years - I don't encourage it, but she likes the social aspect - and she confirms that the Wii feedback is just like the structure of that group. If she's a pound heavier than she was at the meeting the week before, she gets some kind of a demerit. :( So I think a lot of it is that the Wii is exposing a lot of us here - who've never been sucked into the weight-loss machine - to philosophies that have been getting shoved down overweight people's throats for decades.

I share my office with an occupational therapist who has been using Wii with her kids this year. They LOVE it and it's far more fun and interesting for them than just doing exercises. Why not be open to many different ways of pursuing fitness?

And I'm guessing, because people think it's fun. People just like different things. Many people feel that going outside for a run or bike ride takes too long/is too boring/is too cold/hot/rainy/dangerous/whatever, and something that looks and feels like a video game is more fun to do.

I used to spend lots of money going to an aerobic class near here. Some of my outdoorsy friends couldn't understand why I would "spend money to jump and down indoors when you can exercise for free outdoors" I did that too, but I loved that class and had a blast.

Most people have no idea why I bother riding a bike in winter either. My kind of fun :)

awww, how cute is this?

http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/01/06/n...dmark/9802537/

We're having a cold snap, and the woman who took the photo writes "it's 20 below (-4F) outside, and I think she wanted to come in and get warm. She looked a bit hungry looking at the flowers in the window."

Reminds me of the time I caught an elk eating my Tulips early in the morning. I turned my kitchen light on, and up pops her head right outside the window, with a red tulip in her teeth. She bounced over my 4 ft fence and into the woods.

I do see lots of uses for the Wii in rehab, OT, maybe PT, especially with kids, or motivating very obese, medically challenged clients. I also can understand the attitude of well, at least the person is doing something. Working on balance and proprioceptive stuff probably is appropriate for this, but I would rather go to the gym and pay a trainer or do it on my own, with my own equipment. What I don't understand is playing "games" that simulate the real thing or doing more aerobic type stuff with the Wii.
Just me.

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Reminds me of the time I caught an elk eating my Tulips ...

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It reminds me of when I lived in Alaska. I was 7 years old and had a rock collection. I found some 'rocks' in the yard, brought them inside and asked my mother what kind they were. She didn't know but I left them in the entry hall by the heater so I could ask my brother about them.
When he got home, he wanted to know why there was moose poop in the hall:o

Hey, I was 7.

Zen, that's better than the Alaskan tourist who insisted the moose pellets were nuts....and proceeded to pop one in her mouth. :eek:

Wii lets me connect with my teenage boy (and whip him at the yoga parts) more than if we exercised separately.

The Wii is truly, truly revolutionary. No other game system has EVER enticed thousands of those who have never played video games before. Lots of the elderly old them. That says a LOT.

Karen

Today is my SO's and my 20th anniversary! I can't believe she's put up with me for this long. :p