What made your day a good one

And this is why we, the people, should embrace Defi of all forms and not bow to govt media bullshit about volatility (anyone long sterling recently?) and hack theft. I’m in the process of building the worlds first crypto/NFT/Defi insurer and although I won’t share any sensitive information the likelihood of event is not what one would expect.
Governments cannot control the people if we stand together, which is why we are divided by media bullshit and ‘Inclusiveness’ which is all around creating silos and encouraging hate so that we don’t reach effective mass.
 
Other than having my blood pressure measured and all good at 137/75. A lot of which I put down to cycling and the 'Lands End challenge'. I also found time to complete an upcycle on an old sad looking grandmother clock we have in the house....



Tried to keep it in typical muted Victorian tones to be sympathetic to the age of the house.

Oh, and the re-lay on the house roof completed today. Photos another day as wet play in the rain prevents me climbing up scaffolding at the moment.

Altogether a very happy day
 
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A fab looking clock Chris, good job!



Paul.
 

You're supposed to show before and after, now you have to do it again and take pix.
 
It's two weeks since I came out of the feverish phase of COVID and I was starting to worry that I just wasn't getting any better ... but yesterday, I really started to feel considerably better and today, while I awoke with a bit of roughness, feel distinctly on the mend now. Maybe I should have taken some time off work, but I don't like to succumb to illness (and actually, I'm rarely ill and don't tend to get seasonal cold/flu) and my work is not physically demanding.

That is good, but what actually "made my day" though?

I had COVID the first time around and it was bad, but somewhat worse it left me with quite literally the top 25 long-COVID symptoms and all the worry that comes with it. Over the 18 months or more of trying to get some medical help on the matter, I finally got a referral to the long-COVID treatment service and by this point it had distilled down to three distinct issues ...

Mrs had COVID back in February and while I had the exact same symptoms, I did not test positive throughout. Coming through that, one of those three issues being heart palpitations actually stopped! I've also had tinnitus in my left ear, like someone flicking a bell right next to my ear constantly and the other day, I realised that had now gone.

Today, I had the weirdest sensation! My third sympton is a breathlesness, manifested as a feeling that I am always slightly breathed in. Consequently, my breathing has been quite shallow. I've been undergoing some respiratory physiotherapy and that has helped, but I have to consciously do it a particular way to convert what is just chest breathing into diaphram breathing. Curiously, I can fence all day but put my socks on or walk up some stairs and I'm out of breath!

So, that weird sensastion ... I realised that I was breathing and my belly was expanding & contracting, rather than my chest. Whether I nose breathe or mouth breathe, I'm breathing normally again! Thing is, after two plus years of this, it's hard to remember what it is supposed to feel like ... but I know this is right and my breathlesness is gone! It's like I've unlocked a whole second phase to my breathing.

Wonderful to feel that things are getting back to some kind of normal ...

Just very odd that it's another bout of the illness that wipes out the lingering post-viral symptoms.
 
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Just very odd that it's another bout of the illness that wipes out the lingering post-viral symptoms.
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Paul, I showed your post to a mate who has suffered really badly from post covid syndrome (which is defined as longer than "long Covid" but the terms are conflated).

He has not had a second bout of the virus and is still having issues, but he has been referred to the long covid specialists and he said:

"His symptoms reflect my journey. I was told, getting Covid or another viral infection, has resulted in the "Long Covid" symptoms being dissipated. It's as if the effect of getting an infection "resets" the issues caused by Long Covid.

It's a scary prospect getting it twice in case it makes it worse so I said to him it's not exactly "actionable" and nobody would condone trying to get it again but it does seem as if it is a known thing that your experience is not isolated, and that there are people who have had another round of one virus or another and this has allowed them to recover more fully.
 

I recently met a guy who'd contracted Covid six times and in his words, 'I just got bored with the whole thing'.

It is one of those things though which is still with us and we still need to be aware of and preventative to others when we do contract it.
 
Wise words Chris, it's still out there and we need to be mindful to keep ourselves as well as others safe.


Paul.
 
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Blademonkey said:
Wise words Chris, it's still out there and we need to be mindful to keep ourselves as well as others.
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Doing as they've done in the far east (and other places) since before this pandemic ... if you've got an illness that can be communicated through the air then keep away from others where possible and where not, wear a mask. If there's one thing that could have come out of this pandemic, it's that mindset of taking personal responsibility and establishing your own mitigations.
 

Talking to the long-COVID folks at the Hospital, there's little interest now in discovering why because there is a general feeling it was a post-COVID strain G which was the one prevalent once it had hit Europe and not generally seen with later strains. When I first talked to them over a year ago, there was some initial hope that research might glean some insight into and help for other post-viral fatigue sufferers; CFS, ME, FM and the like.
 
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