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I got a flu shot this year - I haven't had any ill effects.
We had a presentation at my departments All Hands Meeting from the Public Health Dept. Letting us know all kinds of interesting things for when, not if, the next pandemic hits. Like I found out, as a County Employee, I can be put to work anywhere I'm needed in an emergency.
As a healthcare worker, I'm supposed to report to the nearest hospital. And be near all those sick people!?!?!? EWWWWWW!!!!
One of the weirdest things that struck me about pandemics is the idea that you *run out* of coffins. With the pandemic in 1918, they resorted to mass graves because there was nothing else to do with the bodies. They were stacking up, literally. Now we've got these great hurkin' piles of heavy-duty body bags, but you've still got to put the bodies somewhere.
Yep - I'm considered a health care worker too, my expertise would probably be emptying bed pans. Ish. The coroner's office is right down the street from my office. I think the plans call for refrigerator trucks.
Oh, this is getting a bit macabre. On to happy fluffy bunny thoughts.
I made Coq au Vin for dinner tonight, I have a quickie recipe - it's really quite good!
I don't get a flu shot 'cause I so rarely get the flu... I don't want to mess with what works. (Last time I did, about 3 years ago, I was on the road when I felt "something coming on" and couldn't do the stuff I usually do with the salt water and lots of hand washing and going straight to bed.)
*Some* people at the college have been sick, but not a whole lot, and nobody I've been in close contact with. When I moved out here to a house full of cats and started washing my hands a lot, that's when I stopped getting sick. Hmmm.... so I'm making' sure to do that, drinking OJ and riding hard ;)
... steering away from morbidity :)
Once upon a time I found a really cool article on handwashing and contagious disease. It was something about how handwashing did more than any other intervention in a population to decrease contagious diseases.
If I wasn't so darn tired I'd wander through google or wikipedia and find it.
I read that, too. I don't know where, but I remembered a couple of the significant names: Oliver Wendell Holmes and a Dr. Semmelweis. Here's a different article that discusses Semmelweis's discovery, which had to do with midwives who washed their hands vs. medical students who didn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Handwashing
No, there was no "sick tent"! All went pretty well. I dosed myself with Sudafed and nighttime cold medicine at night and I actually rode not too bad but I think I'm going to pay for it now. It was a looooong weekend with a cold. It was still fun though. It was warm and the rain held off so we had perfect riding all weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duck on Wheels
Yahoo, a successful 2nd Annual mountain bike camp! Next year will be the charm
Juju - that was a great article!
I especially like this quote: In 1910, Josephine Baker, M.D. started a program to teach hygiene to child care providers in New York. Thirty physicians sent a petition to the Mayor protesting that "it was ruining medical practice by...keeping babies well."
Thank goodness for those female doctors at the turn of the century!
Yes, I keep reliving my moment of doom. We'd gone to my mother's house and gave her a cup of hot broth. After she drank some of it, i took the cup back...
I didn't wash my hands, probably not until I was getting dressed for bed....
and now you know the rest of the story..
ak! She even said, "Don't take that, what I have might be contagious!"
ak! ak! ak!
I'm at work everyone, play the violin for me.
I survived pneumonia twice. and my grandmother and her sister and brother all survived the great flu way back when.
Yay!!:D So glad all went well in spite of the cold. Now you can lie back and let your cold force you to rest on your laurels. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by spokewench
There's been enough laurel-resting in this house! Off to the gym with me!
Ok.. do many of you go to the gym as well as bike?
I joined a gym but i'm not sure if i'll stay. i probably should but i tend to not go and then i feel stupid/guilty/lazy/wasteful for being locked into a one year contract wehn i only use it for 30 days or something.
Rogue, I joined after I got the osteoporosis diagnosis. Now I am reading a book called "YOunger next year for women" which says you should do 45 minutes of exercise a year to offset our crappy lifestyle. No one (?) lives in a climate where they can ride 365 days a year, so a gym really helps.
For osteoporosis, you have to do weight bearing exercise and biking doesn't count AT ALL for that.
So i have to walk, run, stair step, and lift weights..
roguedog I've done the gym thing a couple of times in my life, but always prefer the workout at home. I don't feel like I want to go out when I look as bad as I do when I'm sweaty! heehee
Over the years, we have acquired quite a collection of fitness equipment, so I have lots of choices, and tend to rotate through them - I'll use the gym for a few months, maybe switch to freeweights, do interval training, or my latest is kickboxing workouts using a heavy bag. In all we've spent quite a few $$, but it's probably less than we would have at a gym. And, when not being used as a gym, the equipment serves very nicely for hanging clothes off as they dry. :p
Yes, I still have the option to lack motivation and just hang out on the couch, but I'd be even more likely to do that if I didn't have all the stuff right here and couldn't make any excuses about having to drive somewhere, etc...
Start with a set of 5 lb dumbbells, do a bunch of walking lunges, and the usual freeweight exercises and see what you think. It might be for you!
Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
LBTC
man.. We have had several bouts of buying exercise equipment. it is so pathetic, sometimes we don't even use it ONCE. then it sits and takes up space until I get rid of it. We've learned one thing at least, we get all this stuff used, so we aren't wasting as much money. I really admire you to be able to do that at home!