Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 6:30 pm

Bed sweats all day. 4 showers. Throat. Soreness. Hot and cold at same time. Don't even need the test. Not terrible but definitely laid out. Can't sleep though. Just want the next day or two to go quick

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sat Jun 18, 2022 10:07 am

Ugh sorry man.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:02 am

Yeah, that sounds bad!

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:57 pm

One of our nieces had it for a second time a couple of weeks ago (first was just before Christmas so that chunk of the family missed celebrating the holiday with everyone) and her mom (my wife’s sister) just tested positive for the first time yesterday. She thinks she picked it up not from her kid but from a friend she spent part of the weekend with. Our nephew’s college graduation party is off for this weekend.

This is all feeling pertinent because we’re just about at the 3 month mark from when it ran through our house. Magic shield gone.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:59 pm

I don't think Omicron cares about past infections. At least that's what anecdotal evidence around here tells me.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Jul 08, 2022 3:46 pm

So, my daughter started her first post-college job Tuesday. Gave rides to/from work to a friend. Friend then tests positive. Now, my daughter is showing symptoms. (Rapid test negative, so far but…)
Sooo… she’s working from home and trying to rest. Shit.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Fri Jul 08, 2022 3:49 pm

Shit is bad here. All the employees have had in last two weeks. I probably gave one one but the other two found it on their own. All gas.

Post by **brian** » Fri Jul 08, 2022 4:37 pm

Just about everyone at the wedding we were at last weekend ended up getting it. Somehow the GF and I dodged it.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:47 pm

My son got it, right after we left Denver. At the time, we were annoyed we didn't get to see him much while out there, but in hindsight....

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:03 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:56 am Another swamper breaks his COViD duck here.

Anyone have recurring night sweats continuing after COVID? That was one of my big symptoms and I still get them 2-3 times a week, despite changing just about everything about how I sleep to try to avoid them.

It sucks waking up at 3 AM dripping wet in a soaking sheet.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 1:45 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:03 pm It sucks waking up at 3 AM dripping wet in a soaking sheet.

Sorry, AB. Maybe quit watching porn just before you go to sleep?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 2:47 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:03 pm It sucks waking up at 3 AM dripping wet in a soaking sheet.

Matchbox-19

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 3:55 pm

But my couch!

I feel like I've had some night sweats going on this summer, and have been sleeping pretty fitfully the past month or two. But that would have all started a good month post-COVID. Enough time that I hadn't really connected all this to COVID, thought it was just either work stress or getting old.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:33 pm

Strangely enough it did not happen on your couch. Or I slept through it.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:24 am

Yup. Finally got me and the wife. And right in the middle of our honeymoon in the Bahamas that we've been waiting over 2 years to go on because of COVID/deployment/military assignment..etc. too.

We're home now, but all of a sudden out of nowhere I started feeling like shit Wednesday and then it got worse on Thursday. Either we got it just before we left or just after we arrived. Basically kept us from doing anything the last couple days.

I was really hoping to escape it completely, but that didn't happen. And I thought I'd be one of the lucky ones without symptoms because I felt nothing during my 2 vax and 1 booster shots. Oh well.

Pruitt3 · Post by **Pruitt3** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:36 am

That sucks.

Hope you and Mrs. Johnnie bounce back quickly.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:39 am

Pruitt3 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:36 am That sucks.

Hope you and Mrs. Johnnie bounce back quickly.

Thank you. Me too. With the year of immunotherapy treatment she had and with an already crappy immune system, I worry about long term effects.

cerranoredux · Post by **cerranoredux** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:22 am

Sorry, Johnnie. Hope she gets fully recovered soon!

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 9:30 am

Yikes. Hope you have a quick and full and permanent recovery.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:17 am

Sucks to feel bad on your honeymoon! Get well!

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:27 am

Really sorry to hear that, Johnnie!

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:57 am

889 days and just got my first bout. I'm feeling no symptoms that I know of, but I'm in a community theater production that was supposed to open tonight and we just canceled opening weekend because of four positives. Then they asked everyone else to test, and boom, it got me. We had been rehearsing in masks for the last three months and went mask-free on Tuesday for the first time. We had three positive cast members during that time. I thought we should've went maskless weeks ago so that if this happened, it wouldn't mess up performances, but I didn't want to get into a mask argument with anyone so I just toed the line.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Mon Aug 22, 2022 8:30 am

First week back at Middle School and my daughter catches it.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:19 am

Reaper wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:57 am 889 days and just got my first bout. I'm feeling no symptoms that I know of, but I'm in a community theater production that was supposed to open tonight and we just canceled opening weekend because of four positives. Then they asked everyone else to test, and boom, it got me. We had been rehearsing in masks for the last three months and went mask-free on Tuesday for the first time. We had three positive cast members during that time. I thought we should've went maskless weeks ago so that if this happened, it wouldn't mess up performances, but I didn't want to get into a mask argument with anyone so I just toed the line.

What production? What role?

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:35 am

Legally Blonde, lots of characters but mainly Kyle the UPS guy. Not my first choice of roles, but I hadn't done anything in over three years so I just needed to get back out there. It's been fun just working on something again. Now, if we can only get it up on stage. I believe the cast is up to 8 positives now. I starting getting mild symptoms on Saturday (including passing out yesterday morning) but I'm much better today. I just don't think we're going to have enough negative tests before Friday and even if we do perform, we're going to be masked, which will definitely take away from it a bit. This really sucks.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:31 am

Woke up in a crazy sweat during our first night at the Polynesian. Had a four-day fever. Rest of the family either confirmed or suspected positive too. So...

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:12 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:23 am Southwest Washington city discourages July 4 event, but organizer says he’s ‘ready to die for this’

Wood and his fellow organizers have been planning an ambitious Fourth of July gathering at Lake Sacajawea ever since the Go 4th Festival Committee canceled the annual three-day celebration about two months ago. Due to state COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings, city officials have stressed that Wood’s event is not permitted, but they have not moved to shut it down or to forcibly stop organizers.
It gets better/worse...

But the event received perhaps its biggest boost this month when organizers announced country music star Lee Greenwood will perform. Greenwood is set to play at 7 p.m. Saturday, according to his concert schedule on Facebook.
Yep...willing to die...for Lee fucking Greenwood...

He’s playing the music pier down here later in the week. If the swamp wants to pitch in and comp me a ticket I’ll report live. Or I’ll stand outside on the boardwalk and see if I can hear PtbaA without paying. Rapturous, to be sure.

Selfishly I’ve never been in the pier and want to go. Was sorely tempted by Gordon Lightfoot earlier this summer. If he had played these past two weeks….

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 12:49 pm

My wife and I haven’t caught Covid yet. But we attended a small backyard get-together at the neighbors’ place Friday night. This morning, the host tells us he just tested positive. We both spent a fair bit of time chatting with him that night.

Guess I’ll get tested tomorrow. (I have no symptoms.)

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:34 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 12:49 pm My wife and I haven’t caught Covid yet. But we attended a small backyard get-together at the neighbors’ place Friday night. This morning, the host tells us he just tested positive. We both spent a fair bit of time chatting with him that night.

Guess I’ll get tested tomorrow. (I have no symptoms.)

Official PCR result: Negative!
Still a Covid virgin.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:11 pm

It was a good 2.5 year run.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:33 pm

Damn, sick guy

Hope it’s mild.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Sep 17, 2022 8:30 am

Found out yesterday that the husband of a friend is going in for his second heart surgery due to the effects of long covid.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:59 am

This former friend of mine (who's also an Arbonne Hun and Born Again Christian) is literally separating as a Chief Master Sergeant instead of getting the vaccine.

Absolutely dumbfounding. She made it to E-9 (I only made it to E-6, for reference) really quick and she's just going to throw it all away.

But apparently they're financially good because her and her husband just bought a brand new Range Rover and she must be killing the MLM game.

I don't get it.

Pruitt3 · Post by **Pruitt3** » Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:11 am

What choice did she have?

It was "the path God has shown"

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:21 am

Pruitt3 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:11 am What choice did she have?

It was "the path God has shown"

From the ghost following I've been doing over the last couple months, literally getting the COVID vaccine would've saved her career.

She's been posting on her stories -- in uniform -- sharing anti vaccine links and being a complete tool about it.

It's nuts. And when I see that that kind of person is who made Chief in the AF, it annoys me. How many young people has she influenced and "led" that she set an example for? Just frustrating.

But hey. No retirement benefits or anything for her. I still have that.

Pruitt3 · Post by **Pruitt3** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:30 pm

Covid got me after 30 months of avoidance.

Tested positive early yesterday after a day or so of feeling like allergies were acting up.

Like a bad head cold with just a hint of wonky head. Glad I got it after 4 vaccines.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:39 pm

Hope it stays mild.

Pruitt3 · Post by **Pruitt3** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:00 pm

Could be worse.

Could be a Broncos fan.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:45 pm

Pruitt3 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:00 pm Could be worse.

Could be a Broncos fan.

Fuck off.

Should have gotten the fifth.

Pruitt3 · Post by **Pruitt3** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 8:12 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:45 pm
Pruitt3 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:00 pm Could be worse.

Could be a Broncos fan.
Fuck off.

Should have gotten the fifth.

Not offering it for my age group yet. Just thankful I've had 4 shots - 4/5 days in and it really hasn't gotten worse - coughed a lot at night, but all else is manageable. Even taking my beast out for a walk in a bit.

BUT - my wife just tested positive. My peaceful quarantine man/cave has been invaded.