Off Topic Medical Plea
This will undoubtedly be shuttled to another forum. But until it is, allow me to make a strong recommendation. THE CURRENT FLU EPIDEMIC AND DEATHS The flu vaccines didn't work. But what DOES...
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Thanks, Mex. I was pondering about one of the Pneumonia vaccines. The Influenza vaccines only target specific strains and who knows how they mutate before they become endemic into my environment.
Yeah, I used that "Lumberjack approach" to health care until a couple of years ago. I woke to have a pain in my arm that I diagnosed as overwork of the appendage from the previous day. I also denied a tingling in my tongue (only in one quadrant) and a slightly occasional blurred vision for a week. The second event of tongue-tingling got me to the doctor, to a hospital, and to an operating room where they opened my carotid artery and cleared out the gunk that was blocking blood to the brain. Fortunately, I dodged a bullet and have no long-term setbacks from the ischemic stroke other than losing my ability to play guitar with any kind of alacrity. I could probably work on my left hand for guitar playing but I still have harmonicas, lol. Lesson learned--I never get sick but it doesn't take but once to make life poor and they have annual physicals for a reason.
Yeah, I used that "Lumberjack approach" to health care until a couple of years ago. I woke to have a pain in my arm that I diagnosed as overwork of the appendage from the previous day. I also denied a tingling in my tongue (only in one quadrant) and a slightly occasional blurred vision for a week. The second event of tongue-tingling got me to the doctor, to a hospital, and to an operating room where they opened my carotid artery and cleared out the gunk that was blocking blood to the brain. Fortunately, I dodged a bullet and have no long-term setbacks from the ischemic stroke other than losing my ability to play guitar with any kind of alacrity. I could probably work on my left hand for guitar playing but I still have harmonicas, lol. Lesson learned--I never get sick but it doesn't take but once to make life poor and they have annual physicals for a reason.
