I am sorry for Pfizer but...

[southernlady]

I am very grateful that my Dad now appears to have recovered from COVID. All forty residents in his memory care center contracted it. Four passed away. At this point, all the others are either fully recovered or on the mend. Some staff are still out.

Glad to hear he’s on the mend.

 

[hilary1617]

Glad to hear he’s on the mend.

Me too! He's getting that cake tomorrow!!!!

 

[MsVee]

I am very grateful that my Dad now appears to have recovered from COVID. All forty residents in his memory care center contracted it. Four passed away. At this point, all the others are either fully recovered or on the mend. Some staff are still out.

Great news about your Dad!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

There seems to be things missing from 3.:

Liver disease
Type 1 diabetes
Autoimmune diseases - these include diseases such as psoriasis, Crohn’s, and RA for which people are taking immunosuppressive drugs.
HIV/AIDS
TB
Malaria
MS
Parkinson’s

And probably dozens if not hundreds more less common diseases which put patients in a weakened condition or with impaired health.

Yes. MrSue has had to forgo (forego?) his (crazy expensive) immunosuppressive psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis drugs most of this year, and deal with psoriasis, which is not fun. The VA lets him make his own decisions; some of the drugs are less of a hazard. But he has decided to do without for the duration.

His hx of heart failure/coronary artery disease might keep him near the top.

I‘m three weeks shy of 74 years old and have COPD and my BMI is (unfortunately?) just over 30. So I guess I’m in.

 

[hilary1617]

Great news about your Dad!

Thank you! I got my Christmas wish!

 

[hilary1617]

Yes. MrSue has had to forgo (forego?) his (crazy expensive) immunosuppressive psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis drugs most of this year, and deal with psoriasis, which is not fun. The VA lets him make his own decisions; some of the drugs are less of a hazard. But he has decided to do without for the duration.

His hx of heart failure/coronary artery disease might keep him near the top.

I‘m three weeks shy of 74 years old and have COPD and my BMI is (unfortunately?) just over 30. So I guess I’m in.

First, let me be the first to wish you a happy birthday! May Mr and Mrs Sue feel as well as possible and be vaccinated soon!

 

[Georgepds]

Yes. MrSue has had to forgo (forego?) his (crazy expensive) immunosuppressive psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis drugs most of this year, and deal with psoriasis, which is not fun. The VA lets him make his own decisions; some of the drugs are less of a hazard. But he has decided to do without for the duration.

His hx of heart failure/coronary artery disease might keep him near the top.

I‘m three weeks shy of 74 years old and have COPD and my BMI is (unfortunately?) just over 30. So I guess I’m in.

I have no idea how serious his psoriasis is, but this tip may help

Scrub the area in the shower with an exfoliating glove. Then, after drying, rub an Amlactin cream onto the area. Neither is prescription, and both are available in any drugstore, or Amazon.

Both these techniques remove the dry surface skin. Before I figured it out my elbows would bleed through my white oxford shirts. The blood ruined the whole effort to look like a shiny new engineer ready for work

 

[southernlady]

like a shiny new engineer ready for work

Totally off topic but what kind of engineering? My family was overrun with civil engineers, there is a cousin who was an aeronautical engineer, and hubby was a mechanical working in the nuclear power industry with boiling water reactors.

 

[Georgepds]

Totally off topic but what kind of engineering? My family was overrun with civil engineers, there is a cousin who was an aeronautical engineer, and hubby was a mechanical working in the nuclear power industry with boiling water reactors.

Acoustics... research side. Designed gadgets to detect vehicles, bullets, footsteps among other things

I was testing one gadget on a military site near Salisbury plain (go past Stonehenge and take a right) that did double duty as an artillery range. As we were waiting for the helicopter to appear I heard a 155 mm shell whistle overhead. The loud explosion afterward confirmed live howitzer fire.

I asked my British host "shouldn't we call range control and let them know we're here?"

He said " Not at all, we're perfectly safe"

Gave me insight into Doug Adams observation " This is a new meaning of safe that I'm not familiar with"

 

[hilary1617]

Thanks to all for keeping my chin up when I was worried!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I have no idea how serious his psoriasis is, but this tip may help

Scrub the area in the shower with an exfoliating glove. Then, after drying, rub an Amlactin cream onto the area. Neither is prescription, and both are available in any drugstore, or Amazon.

Both these techniques remove the dry surface skin. Before I figured it out my elbows would bleed through my white oxford shirts. The blood ruined the whole effort to look like a shiny new engineer ready for work

Thanks.

I will pass this on.

I did. At drugs.com, it says:

• Do not put on open wounds, cuts, or irritated skin.”

Untreated, his looks like pink alligator skin and the plaques catch on things and then bleed. What do you think re this warning? BTW, he gets them everywhere, including scalp and inside his ears and, yes, most everywhere, too. It came on after his heart attack, and heart attack meds, twenty years ago.

(One of my favorite “toys” as a young kid was my Erector Set, but I was a girl. And I kinda liked my drafting class in high school, but I was still a girl. And a career test thing said I should be a pilot or an ophthalmologist, but I was still a girl. And Army ASVAB tests said I‘d be good at mechanical stuff, but it also said I might be okay at languages and they needed more linguists. And I was still a girl. But I drive my husband crazy because I’m never satisfied with a solution to a problem…because I’m sure there are other solutions and I want to compare them all. LOL)

Also…are there engineers working on artificial smell detection? I have anosmia…can’t smell ****, literally. Also can’t smell meat going bad or gas leaks. But I’m down with sound. There, I function!

 

[Georgepds]

Oh... I'm not a MD, I only know what worked for me.

I did ask another dermatologist, and he suggested gold bond diabetic foot cream in place of Amlactin his predecessor recommended. I used it and it helped too

I know little about smell, but I envy your hearing. I stopped work, in part, because I could not hear my co-workers

--G

 

[Webmommy]

Thanks.

I will pass this on.

I did. At drugs.com, it says:

• Do not put on open wounds, cuts, or irritated skin.”

Untreated, his looks like pink alligator skin and the plaques catch on things and then bleed. What do you think re this warning? BTW, he gets them everywhere, including scalp and inside his ears and, yes, most everywhere, too. It came on after his heart attack, and heart attack meds, twenty years ago.

(One of my favorite “toys” as a young kid was my Erector Set, but I was a girl. And I kinda liked my drafting class in high school, but I was still a girl. And a career test thing said I should be a pilot or an ophthalmologist, but I was still a girl. And Army ASVAB tests said I‘d be good at mechanical stuff, but it also said I might be okay at languages and they needed more linguists. And I was still a girl. But I drive my husband crazy because I’m never satisfied with a solution to a problem…because I’m sure there are other solutions and I want to compare them all. LOL)

Also…are there engineers working on artificial smell detection? I have anosmia…can’t smell ****, literally. Also can’t smell meat going bad or gas leaks. But I’m down with sound. There, I function!

It has a chemical exfoliant so it can help his cells turn over quicker. It might sting. But I think they’re referring to things like burns or abrasions. It’s worth trying because maybe the initial stinging might be a nice change from the itching?

 

[Georgepds]

FWIIW... I never felt a sting

You might want to try it on a small area first.

What I found it was the dry outer layer that cracked, and bled. If I got rid of that outer layer, the problem went away... but I didn't have it everywhere, only a bit near the elbows