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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 2, 2018 - 07:54am PT
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Home with the flue. Mtn Project just gave me a forced time out......
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The chimney flue? Sounds weird. Heel up.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 08:25am PT
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dude, you know I can't spell fer sh#t. What makes you think that would improve when I am so sick that I passed out twice this morning 2nd time came two standing up still holding on the the sink and wall.. first time pretty shure it was the bedroom floor but who knows... had to turn on the phone to figure out what day it is..... pretty sure I pissed myself at least 3 or 4 times yesterday or possibly the day before..????
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Tamiflu....
Get it early.
Worked for me with H1N1... well, it helped at least.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 08:54am PT
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I am only 55 and 3/4s seems like breathing is good, pulse is not doing anything too crazy.. 4 days into it so probably too late for tami flue to be effective??? Its a messed up country we live in. Going to try and scedual a annual vet visit for hugo because I am too sick to climb or work but can't afford to get myself checked out on the bronz plan.....
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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passing out like black out? or just being hyperbolic? If the former, you need to see a doc or something cause that ain't good.
Hope the chimney gets cleared soon!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Get well soon TMC. Did you get a flu shot? Just curious.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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lot's of people die of influenza,
if you've got extreme symptoms (and it sounds like you do) don't mess around with it... seek a medical opinion (not a STForum opinion).
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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x2...
Last time I pissed myself I had Dengue... If you're passing out then it's time to get supportive care. Super low blood pressure or an extreme temperature could cause it.
Probably too late for Tamiflu if you're 4 days in. But they can culture you and get a better handle on what you might have.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 09:55am PT
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just a dizzy fainting spell with some spinning etc. I have had extreme before. this sucks but not extreme. I had 106f once. that was extreme. people in the er ran around really slowly trying not to show that they were very concerned.. I know what 104 feels like and that is extreme. I would guess that I am peaking at 102 and change??? bag of frozen rice on my head right now...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 10:00am PT
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just pissing myself due to bad aim and not much awareness. go take a pee and realize after that your pjs are soakeing wet, strip em off throw em in the laundry crawl in the shower get clean, repete... not letting the hot water go on my neck or head but also not takeing the cold shower that I should be takeing.... Solved the peeing problem by sitting down....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 10:01am PT
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dizzy spell from standing up too fast with fever and likely low blood pressure???
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/takingcare.htm
(looks like the CDC gets the chop in the President's budget... fortunately we still have it functioning)
What are the emergency warning signs of flu sickness?
In adults
Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
Sudden dizziness
Confusion
Severe or persistent vomiting
Flu-like symptoms that improve but then return with fever and worse cough
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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"dizzy spell from standing up too fast with fever and likely low blood pressure???"
If you actually passed out after getting up too fast, that's likely low blood pressure.
But I'd go somewhere cheap to just get your vitals taken(like BP and 02 sats), lungs listened to, and a flu swab. Chances are you've just got a nasty bug.
This winter sucks... lots of bad bugs out there.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 11:08am PT
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fever keeps commi9ng back, naseus, soaking wet, dizy, joints hurt like fck. if this ain't the flue I shure as shhit don't want to go to the clinic and catch the flue...... No flue shot. got real sick from one about a decade or so ago and have not had the shot since.....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 11:43am PT
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also my doctor friend told me that the flu shot is not effective.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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tradmanclimbs
please go get a medical evaluation ASAP
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 11:45am PT
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you can learn pretty much anything you want to know on the taco, you just have to know how to sift through the chaff
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Roger Brown
climber
Oceano, California
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I googled your location for free clinics and they are out there if you are low income or have no insurance. We went to them in the 70's
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 12:02pm PT
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20 miles to a clinic I have 102 now. driving not smart. will go to town tomorrow and get more juice and possibly a real thermometer.been using a photography thermometer for the last 30 years. Hydrateing and takeing curcumin. lived in a 320sqft cabin for 21 years with no real indoor plumbing. Gravity feed sink with dry well. outdoor shower, privy in the woodshed, no thermostat just woodstove. this is pretty casualy compared to that. I lived in that cabin when i hit 106 and another time hit 104. if I start halucinateing I will call for help. Seems I get whipped out much worse by sickness than I did before the time I hit 106. if the fever gets really bad I will go outside and take off my shirt for a bit. the clinic I went when I hit 106 the guy running it was ex army doctor. he gave me two choices. I could go outside and take my cheffs coat off or he was throwing me in a cold shower... I was thinking I was super cold but was burning up. going outside half nekid in winter really helped...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 12:03pm PT
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I have bronze plan. super high deductible
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 12:14pm PT
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Se plesnty of gud advice on taco. go to clinic stupid..
more worried about isa. she has same bug but is 100 miles away and has terrible stairs with no railing. 200 year old farm house... also worried about our 84 year old doctor friend as we hosted him last weekend.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 12:33pm PT
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See, Gud advice from taco. the Dr alexander video is not the one he did at Isas farm but he has been there twice. Speaks for free, treats people for free.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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If yer breathing is fairly normal it would probably be a waste of time and money. Keep up
with yer fluids (light headedness) and Tylenol. AS SOON AS YOU NOTICE ANY BREATHING
PROBLEMS get yer butt to a clinic ASAP! The flu isn’t gonna kill you*, but pneumonia will.
*Unless it dehydrates you to a bad level.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 12:49pm PT
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takeing Curcumin instead of Tylenol or advil etc. .
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 12:52pm PT
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can I eat something? I ate an avocado today but nothing for a day or so before that. sh#t in my lungs is super viral, dark and nasty but very small volume. huge coughing fit produces one cm of nasty sh#t.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I didn’t realize you have a ‘productive cough’.
You need to see somebody, and I don’t mean the local fortune teller. NOW!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Amen to that!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 01:07pm PT
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its not very productive. 1cm of sh#t every couple hours or longer. only 1 or 2 cm of sh#t in morning after laying down all night. not bad INMOP
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Lots of clear fluids and no Dairy which will only thicken the mess in there.
You likely have the flu and need to have your lungs checked and likely xrayed for pneumonia. The flu itself probably won't kill you but the secondary pneumonia can. If you've got no means to check your o2 saturation, go to that clinic 20 miles away. You can go hypoxic and downhill pretty fast without knowing it.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nor'easters, black flies, and flu - oh my!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 01:14pm PT
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I am more worried about isa. though she said her fever dropped today.
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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I'd get a second opinion on the Toyota Sienna repair forum.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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You’re being stubborn...it’s okay for hardmen to see the doctor.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 02:24pm PT
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actually the ice climbing really sucks right now and no I am not a hard man.. I felt worse here but got better within 8 or so hours of loseing altitude
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Tradman,get some rest.
If you have some specific autoimmune problems,get to town.
Otherwise,rest and fluids,I just got over the same early this week. You are right ,there is no ice.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2018 - 04:58pm PT
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I know where there is some ice but its almost in Canada and only 2 pitches of north faceing 2+.....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2018 - 04:25am PT
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still alive. proved you all wrong again ;) only about 100.5f
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2018 - 05:20am PT
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you don't want to let them get their claws into you unless you are actually dying. They will pick your bones clean..
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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If living in New England won't kill you, surviving the flu should be no problem. Next comes the black flies...the horror, the horror!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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tradman, have you no compassion? Some doctor needed to make his boat payment.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2018 - 08:55am PT
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I have actually been using an old photo chemical thermometer from back in my days of souping my own film. expensive at the time High quality glass but in 2 degree increments so not super easy to read. Sucks having a fever. just drove all the way to town for critical supplys but got there with no wallet. its full blown mud season and 3.5 miles of shitty dirt road...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2018 - 09:13am PT
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take 2 on the trip to town. hopefully the wheels won't fall off....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2018 - 12:49pm PT
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I'm not dead yet.. Id Like to go for a walk....
actually still feel like sh#t. new digital thermometer is bouncing around a lot from 100.4 to 101.6. not terrible but not great.....
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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My home is flue proof...no fireplace.
Hope you're doing better!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Glad you're still alive.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2018 - 04:48am PT
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I'm not dead yet, I'd like to go for a walk... Managed to chase off the guy with the cart and mallet again :)
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2018 - 05:53am PT
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Still alive, feeling much better but still not able to go to work today.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Good to hear.
Milk it, braj! 🤣
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perswig
climber
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Glad to hear you're still this side of the veil, Trad.
Bonus, if you believe Donald Perry over on the tick thread, that your fever may have wiped out latent rickettsial beasties running around in your fluids from years of NE dubbing. No need to parboil in the sauna!
Hope Isa's feeling better as well.
Dale
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2018 - 09:36am PT
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Thanks. I will tell her about the lyme spirokeets.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Thank god...you will climb again and keep giving us your unique prespective on the knarly climbing in New England!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2018 - 10:03am PT
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winter is gradually creeping back. might take me some time to get strong enough to climb.....
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perswig
climber
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Thanks. I will tell her about the lyme spirokeets.
Wait! I was mostly kidding.
I'm not buying that theory, mind you, but he seems to have sources espousing such a thing as persistent elevated body temp maybe somehow helping either kill 'em all or stimulate your immune system to greater heights.
Upside, he's right.
Downside, only your brain would have been fried, and we only use, what, 10% of that. Plenty to spare, especially ice climbers.
Hunker down for the next snow this week and yeah, maybe ice will build another time or two this season.
Dale
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2018 - 08:06am PT
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still alive. totally wasted... got the oldplow truck running and did a lap u nd down the road getting ready for tomorrows noreaster. completely kicked my ass.. back to bed...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2018 - 06:37am PT
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still alive. warming up the old girl. 14" of fresh. this is going to be a beast to plow...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2018 - 06:41am PT
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I am wiped out just from gassing up, getting her started and clearing the snow off the truck..
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2018 - 09:19am PT
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finally got the plowing done. threw a chain, went backwards down the hairpin, spun a 180 and hit a tree with the plow semi deliberately to stop and get my sh#t together...
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Yep... the long-term fatigue and other adverse effects from the real flu aren't a joke...
Look on the bright side, at least it's not -15 and blowing 25 today.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2018 - 03:08pm PT
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so I went and skinned and skied this afternoon. got back to the cabin cold and shakeing. both hands total pins and needles numbness complete. Body temp 94.9f crawled in hot shower. no chest pains or shortness of breth so chilling at home now @ 98.1 what happened??????
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What happened? Reality, braj!
Consider yerself lucky a Marine Blackhawk wasn’t using yer ass for a strafing run practice!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Low grade fever?
Chills?
Probably a high white blood cell count,meaning your body is still fighting it.
Best thing to do,stay warm ,don’t over exert,eat good and still plenty of fluids.
Secondary infections,see pneumonia,are common when immune systems are compromised.
This is what my NPractioner gf has told me about what you have said.
You must have had a bunch of snow ,aye?
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perswig
climber
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Mar 10, 2018 - 08:06am PT
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How you doing, Nick?
Dale
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2018 - 10:48am PT
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alive. XC skied around the golf course w isa. two hacking old folks walking on skies......
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