NWI INGO General Thread #26 - Pink Pooping Spiders & Raccons

[sadclownwp]

"In 48 hours, when you don't eat and only sleep, I dropped 3.4 lbs. I haven't seen this weight since high school. I am feeling better though."

Down another 1.2 lbs, but turned the corner.

Spoiler Alert on this round of flu:
All 3 of us had it with almost identical symptoms.
Day 1-2: achey all over back pains, lethargic, runny nose, trade sleep for eat
Day 3: runny nose, less lethargic, hacking up aliens, appetite returning, body starts flushing the system: loose (not terrible, but I wouldn't want to be on the road).
Day 4: runny nose, not lethargic, far less hacking up aliens, more flushing the system (again, not terrible, but I wouldn't want to be on the road). Tons more energy. Appetite returned.

We all 3 had the same experience within hours of 1st onset (highly contagious) except for the wife, who is in day 3 and had a 1/2 day migraine.

As far as the flu goes from previous experience, this was not that bad.

I feel bad for all of you. My mom was a teacher and would bring home every sickness known to man that my brother and I didn't already bring home. That woman had the immune system of superman or maybe wolverine. I can only remember her taking 2 sick days due to actually being sick. She would get the sniffles for a day or two and then be right as rain.

 

[chef larry]

Thursday morning and a road trip up to Wisconsin for work.

 

[Ballstater98]

I feel bad for all of you. My mom was a teacher and would bring home every sickness known to man that my brother and I didn't already bring home. That woman had the immune system of superman or maybe wolverine. I can only remember her taking 2 sick days due to actually being sick. She would get the sniffles for a day or two and then be right as rain.

One of a few jobs I can think of where a good immune system is extremely valuable. I'm rarely knock down sick, but when it happens, TKO!

 

[jedi]

Safe travels all.
Roads are slick

 

[erasure]

It's warm and balmy after the last few days, at least.

 

[Snapdragon]

Waiting in the radiology waiting room for two of my four MRI's. Brain and neck today.

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Hope you get some answers, Snap.

 

[erasure]

Same. Good luck.

 

[jedi]

Waiting in the radiology waiting room for two of my four MRI's. Brain and neck today.

(Joke)

 

[Snapdragon]

Two down, two to go (tomorrow).

 

[HoughMade]

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Safe travels all.
Roads are slick

Got up this morning to about 5 inches of light fluffy snow. I got to get the tractor out and plow the driveway for the first time this winter. Good times, good times.

 

[darkkevin]

Got up this morning to about 5 inches of light fluffy snow. I got to get the tractor out and plow the driveway for the first time this winter. Good times, good times.

wow, in valpo? got 1-2 in crown point and about the same in chesterton.

 

[HoughMade]

wow, in valpo? got 1-2 in crown point and about the same in chesterton.

South of Valpo- it really surprised me because I hadn't heard that we were supposed to get any snow overnight.

 

[cg21]

Winter in nwi 0-83” maybe possibly -50 or 50 above just flip a coin

 

[KLB]

Got up this morning to about 5 inches of light fluffy snow. I got to get the tractor out and plow the driveway for the first time this winter. Good times, good times.

I have to go do a quick plow job too. Of course it looks like lake effect snow tonight and tomorrow, so I may wait

 

[melensdad]

Cancelled my trip to Purdue tonight. 80 mile drive, we are in the 3" to 5" area, but even Purdue is supposed to get 2-3". So an 80 mile drive on rural highways (US41/SR52) with farm fields blowing snow onto the roadway doesn't seem too prudent. Especially since tonights practice ends at MIDNIGHT. Its 90 minutes home in good conditions, but at 1am I don't want to be on the side of the road in blowing and drifting trying to walk to Fowler or Kentland looking for a place to stay warm.

 

[tv1217]

Waiting in the radiology waiting room for two of my four MRI's. Brain and neck today.

If they find any extra, please consider donating to jedi.

 

[Snapdragon]

Got my results back already. Lumbar MRI showed bulging disks and degenerative arthritis. Brain MRI did not look bad, but an incidental finding was that my carotids are "tortuous" and aneurysm cannot be excluded without further testing. Tomorrow when I get my cervical and thoracic MRI's, they will also do an MRA (magnetic resonance angiogram) of my carotids.

 

[marvin02]

Got my results back already. Lumbar MRI showed bulging disks and degenerative arthritis. Brain MRI did not look bad, but an incidental finding was that my carotids are "tortuous" and aneurysm cannot be excluded without further testing. Tomorrow when I get my cervical and thoracic MRI's, they will also do an MRA (magnetic resonance angiogram) of my carotids.

Glad you are getting answers, but hoping results are more positive.

 

[marvin02]

Cancelled my trip to Purdue tonight. 80 mile drive, we are in the 3" to 5" area, but even Purdue is supposed to get 2-3". So an 80 mile drive on rural highways (US41/SR52) with farm fields blowing snow onto the roadway doesn't seem too prudent. Especially since tonights practice ends at MIDNIGHT. Its 90 minutes home in good conditions, but at 1am I don't want to be on the side of the road in blowing and drifting trying to walk to Fowler or Kentland looking for a place to stay warm.

Maybe @jedi will drive you. This is just an annoyance to him, still not "feets & feets", he should be able to get you there in his sleigh pulled by 8 racoons.