Quartzsite make you sick?

Don & Barb Bogue wrote:
I never knew VF was so dangerous or that it wasn't easily cured. Thanks for the info don...

(knocking gently on wood)..

Wait till the next EQ out here. There will be an epidemic outbreak of VF if its dry and the ground has a chance to shake the dust up

I never knew VF was so dangerous or that it wasn't easily cured. Thanks for the info don...

SCVJeff wrote:
HOWS THE PATIENT TODAY? Got a handle on the cough yet?

Doing better thanks.

Taking a pill to help with chest congestion. Antibiotic daily for 5 days. Had first good night's sleep despite howling winds. Still feeling kinda weak but I think we're on the mend.

Interesting thread! I'd never heard of Valley Fever.

Budster wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:

As for Valley Fever, the #1 lab in the country (maybe the only one) that can positively diagnose Valley Fever is in Bakersfield as it is also the capitol of VF. They thought that's what I had too and it took many days to get the results back. As much as I see your Sig in Cochella, I doubt that's what you have in Q.

The lab recommended to me is at UC Davis http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medmicro/cocci.html

have your lab send it to Demosthenes Pappagianis, M.D., Ph.D.

Dont need a 13th doctor 300 miles away.. my results came back negative from the lab but I was in some very isolated and questionable places up north of Las Vegas, and VF, Legionnaires Disease, and a few others so they had to check... it came back worse :(

HOWS THE PATIENT TODAY? Got a handle on the cough yet?

SCVJeff wrote:

As for Valley Fever, the #1 lab in the country (maybe the only one) that can positively diagnose Valley Fever is in Bakersfield as it is also the capitol of VF. They thought that's what I had too and it took many days to get the results back. As much as I see your Sig in Cochella, I doubt that's what you have in Q.

The lab recommended to me is at UC Davis http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medmicro/cocci.html

have your lab send it to Demosthenes Pappagianis, M.D., Ph.D.

Glad you got ahead of it !

Thanks. I'm a little better today, but sleeping a lot. I started noticing I just wasn't feeling all that chipper for about a week, then overnight I got this roaring sore throat and horrendous cough. B really knocks the c&&& out of me.

Bronchitis will still be no fun but certainly the lesser of the evils. Hopefully the first round of meds will kick it.

Glad to hear it 2old. Not good, but a heck of a lot better than the alternative.
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