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    #101

    Feb 28, 2015, 07:53 PM
    H-Husky. That's OK J-9, I'm trying to relax a bit--home with a sinus infection.
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    #102

    Feb 28, 2015, 08:17 PM
    That sucks! That made it's rounds through our house. I had it last weekend and actually called in sick to work. I haven't called in sick in 5 years.
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    #103

    Feb 28, 2015, 09:25 PM
    I had 5 my first year of kinder, 3 last year, and now this one, my first in 15 months! Allergy shots are helping, plus getting used to the germs. They are awful! Sorry you had one...
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    #104

    Feb 28, 2015, 09:45 PM
    Sorry you are going through this. Schools and hospitals are the worst places to work if you don't want to get sick.
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    Feb 28, 2015, 10:18 PM
    My allergist said Kinder teachers are seen more often than any other patients. We should get hazard pay working in schools and hospitals.
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    #106

    Mar 2, 2015, 07:47 AM
    The sinus infection (and upper respiratory infection) is making its rounds at my house too. I'm finally feeling more human with antibiotics (xrays showed cysts), and now Lan has started coughing and sneezing.

    I can't wait for this winter to be over with already.
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    #107

    Mar 3, 2015, 08:57 PM
    I'm sort of in the same boat over here. I coughed so much that I broke a rib, doctor confirmed it. The sinus part no, but the cough is killing me. My entire right side feels like I hit a brick wall and didn't give up until it lost. Sadly it didn't lose. :(
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    #108

    Mar 5, 2015, 04:49 PM
    Okay, this rib thing is driving me nuts. It felt better yesterday, but today I can barely move. Driving the kids to school was a nightmare, they had to help me put my seatbelt on, and Jared had to steer for part of the time. It's that bad!

    I can't take this anymore! Pain meds don't work, hot compress doesn't work, cold compress doesn't work, wrapping it works but I was told not to do that. I'm in so much pain and I really just want to cry, but I know that will make it worse. :(
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    Mar 5, 2015, 04:51 PM
    I'm so sorry you are going through this. I wish I could help.
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    Mar 5, 2015, 06:17 PM
    Any advice would be appreciated J. I'm okay typing because I only move my hands. Anything that requires me moving my right side, putting on a shirt, putting on underarm deodorant, washing my hair, driving, you name it, is excruciating.

    It's pain from the back to the front, starting at my right breast, just under it, all the way to my back and everything between.

    I've tried everything, pain meds, muscle relaxants, hot compress, cold compress, and nothing is helping. I can't sleep, I can't function, and it's pissing me off!
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    #111

    Mar 5, 2015, 06:28 PM
    Unfortunately you have used every intervention. There is nothing different I would recommend. But you know I'm only a nurse not a doctor. Lol, just had to rub it in.

    Didn't this happen to you last year?
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    #112

    Mar 5, 2015, 06:49 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by J_9 View Post
    Unfortunately you have used every intervention. There is nothing different I would recommend. But you know I'm only a nurse not a doctor. Lol, just had to rub it in.

    Didn't this happen to you last year?
    It happens to me and Rod too often. We get sick, cough and cold, and we eventually bruise or break a rib.

    Fact is, I'm stuffy, sneezy, coughing, but not enough to have caused this. I'm not that sick! Not nearly enough to break a rib! I don't even consider myself ill, but still I have broken ribs! What?

    I don't get this. I only know it hurts, I can't sleep, I can barely function, and it's ticking me off! It's been a week now and it's getting worse, not better. I can't sleep, it hurts to lay down. Yesterday I felt better, than today it was worse than the first day. At this point it hurts to take a deep breath. I want to cry. I can't take this anymore!

    Oh, and LOL! Ya, you had to rub it in. I would have rubbed it in as well. :)
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    Mar 5, 2015, 06:55 PM
    Back to the doctor you go. It's not common to break ribs that easily, or that often.
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    #114

    Mar 5, 2015, 08:34 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by J_9 View Post
    Back to the doctor you go. It's not common to break ribs that easily, or that often.
    It happens to us all the time. Rod has had it happen twice in the last 12 months. For me it's the first break in the last 12 months, but I've had multiple bruised ribs, which are almost worse.

    Is there a supplement we're not taking? Are we not getting enough of something?
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    Mar 6, 2015, 05:53 AM
    Alty... have you ever had a bone density test done?
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    #116

    Mar 7, 2015, 08:58 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by DoulaLC View Post
    Alty... have you ever had a bone density test done?
    I haven't. I should. I know my mom had issues with that, as did my Oma, and my Grandma.

    Great, more tests. Just love tests! NOT! ;)
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    #117

    Mar 9, 2015, 07:47 AM
    At least you're in Canada, where health care is free!
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    #118

    Mar 10, 2015, 05:18 PM
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    At least you're in Canada, where health care is free!
    True. Very true. That's the only blessing because Rod and I would have no home if we had to pay for health care. Just my parents alone would have cost us everything and then some if we lived in the US.
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    #119

    Mar 10, 2015, 05:44 PM
    Alty, how old were your parents when they passed?
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    #120

    Mar 10, 2015, 06:07 PM
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    Alty, how old were your parents when they passed?
    My dad was 60, my mom was 63.

    Yes, she married a younger man. :)

    Go mom! :)

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