Announcements
 

I only have one, right now, but feel free to make your own announcements here too...

I do not have COVID-19. (yet)

I volunteered to work the election wherever I was needed so am being sent to deepest darkest Detroit. Today they sent me for a rapid test, and 30 minutes after they deep-mined my nasal cavities, they declared me innocent.

From my training session, I deduced that Detroiters do have a tad of a cavalier attitude to coronavirus precautions, so this day is yet young and I am not anticipating being met with a plastic screen between me and the voting masses, but we shall see.... I wouldn't dream of suggesting that this is in any way related to the scary covid figures in Wayne county....

been nice knowing you all.......

wash your hands and use a neti pot

Oh dear, she was sent to Covidtry.

no way no how never

Thanx for letting us know :)

Thank you for your service.

I've been getting tested every Monday but my results have been coming in on Thursday afternoon. Not great turnaround.

If you could go ahead and not die this election season I'd appreciate that.

What is the benefit from regular testing?
Is there an early treatment available?
Or does it just let you know you need to avoid everyone (quarantine) for the next two weeks?
And contact everyone you were near for the last two weeks?

Keeps the teacher away from the class.

Snort some crank or coke, it should burn those nasal passages right out.

What is the benefit from regular testing? I will stop seeing clients immediately.

Is there an early treatment available? They have learned some about how to treat it, outside of steroids I don't know what they're doing.

Or does it just let you know you need to avoid everyone (quarantine) for the next two weeks? Quarantine is crucial.


And contact everyone you were near for the last two weeks? Also crucial. They'll look at my work calendar and all other activity.

Tested negative three times in the last three weeks.

I call that good, where I was (a large spa and torture center in Nashville) had an entire floor of corona-afflicted...

I made it home.

The last few hours were hell (after the polls closed and we had to get the stuff to the receiving place and then I had to find my way out of the far side of Detroit and drive the 45 minutes home. Given my druthers, I would not do it again, but if it was needed I guess I would....

What protections were in place?

we were provided with gloves, masks and face shields. It was required for poll workers to wear face masks, although the seasoned veterans often had noses sticking out or took them off to speak. We all had our temperatures taken and signed to say we were symptom free as we started.

We had sanitizing wipes to use to wipe down booth after each voter and there was hand sanitizer. My cow-orker (who -it turned out- lives half a mile away from me) was very good at this for our booths and even our pens. I did not notice it happening so much in other precincts, but then I wasn't watching all that closely. (There were 6 precincts voting at that location).

The booths were set up 6 feet apart, but the major slip up/oversight was that each precinct only had 1 table where voters filled out their applications, had ID checks and ballots assigned. here poll workers and voters were not 6 feet apart, neither were voters filling in applications.The table was probably only 6 or 8 feet long and there were two of us behind it.

I encountered two people with coughs that concerned me, but that was all, and they were masked.

Michigan did not require voters to wear masks to vote but I don't think I saw anyone without one, which (pleasantly) surprised me.

Pleasant surprise indeed.

Good work, glad you are ok.

Yes glad everything turned out ok :)

I just ran 7 miles. No-one was chasing me.

I've never run that many miles at once. I'm impressed.

Well it was a good job no-one was chasing me, it was pretty slow.... :) thanks :D

I've never run a plurality of miles, of any count. Way to go!

I did some double timing in the military... or maybe it was two-timing... never mind.

This sounds like an ouchie to me.

Zero blisters, zero chub rub.... thought I was totally winning, but turns out my sports bra rubbed 2 red spots on my back, almost symmetrical. They sting a bit but are not raw. So weird. Bra is not new, I have two identical ones worn every time I run (which is 2-3 times a week, nearly 200 miles since March, and every run I have ever done since I first gave it a try in 2013) because new gear does not excite me. It was a little warm (27 of your real degrees) but I've run in hotter....... and I've run 10K a couple times before.

Bet that's gonna be fun when I go tubing tomorrow.... odds on them being right in the spot where I lean back on the tube? :lol:

Put calendula ointment on them over night

Rub Some Bacon On It

I just used an antibiotic cream with local anaesthetic. ...Then sprayed sunblock on this morning cause I went tubing : D stang a little....

squeeeeee! that is all.

:D

I have above average hearing. Awesome even. Audiologist used the term "super-power".


Whinge related to announcement:

They have no fucking clue what it causing my current issue -probably a combo of a slightly deviated septum, a weird eustachian tube and being super fucking unlucky.) Best guess is TMD -despite no pain or movement issues. Great, thanks. Answer.....? Be less stressed. Love you too.

Also, I have very clean ears.

Today's announcement:

I still don't have COVID

also, the test hasn't gotten any more pleasant.

Good to go for the election -unless I get a real job by then

I go for my weekly this afternoon even though we're shutting things down for a couple weeks. There is one tech or nurse at the site I go to who is brutal, the others are gentler. Luck of the draw.

Announcenment: Hello all

End trans

Gah! Good luck. It's like with phlebotomists; some of them will carve you up real nice for a green card and others are like the tooth fairy.

re the phlebotomists, how hard can it be? I would think after half a dozen, you would have it down.

Maybe they are sadists? I've heard horror stories from people with "difficult to find veins" - finally they call in the one nurse who is the vein whisperer and she gets it in one. Makes you wonder why they don't just call her first in when they see the victim has "difficult to find veins."

My veins are so easy they all salivate when they see them... and yet sometimes they still fuck it up so badly I look like a dalmation for weeks!

That's a good one. As my favorite vampire would say.

Techniques, skill level and needle size have all improved the process over the years.
Attitude, both theirs and yours, help a lot.

I have to admit that, when asked which arm I prefer, I point to theirs.

Both Minifob and I have difficult veins (Minifobette, it seems, was spared.) They once stuck me 7 times trying to find a vein. The difficult qualities, aside from being smaller and deeper than normal, also apparently include "rolling," i.e. being so loose under the skin that they slide away from underneath the tip of the needle, and "blowing out," i.e. being so delicate that the introduction of a needle puncture causes the whole thing to tear apart. This also accounts for our easy bruising tendencies.

It doesn't bother me at all, but I do have to look away otherwise I invariably move my arm to try and "help" them. My favorite (of course) is when they say "show me your finger" for the blood ox thingy ..... :D .....every time.