Health, Hygiene and Safety Tips for living under Coronavirus quarantine

[CSIDreamer]

I was looking for the Covid testing thread but haven’t found it yet. But here’s my vaccination schedule.

My oncologist has me set for the Modera? Covid vaccine at 7:30 on Thursday. They don’t think there’s anything in it I will react to. I have a stupid amount of allergies so I have to be in a hospital or clinic setting. At 8:00am they’ll do bloodwork. At 8:30am I see the doctor. As long as everything is going well, I can have my treatment afterward. The second dose will be at my next treatment appointment Feb 11th. Same process. I’m taking my own epi pen just because I’m a little scared. I’ll be in a hospital but still.

That sounds like an excellent plan!

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In their study, the researchers investigated the value of three emotional strategies for dealing with lockdowns:

• nostalgia, or sentimentally looking back toward previous, better times
• gratitude, or thinking about the good things currently in one’s life
• best possible self, or picturing good things in the future

“The current restrictions and any future lockdowns have removed our sense of control of our lives. For the sake of our well-being, we need to acknowledge what we do have rather than regretting what we have lost.”
– Lead study author Amelia Dennis
To thrive in lockdown, keep looking forward

 

[roche.analisa]

I was looking for the Covid testing thread but haven’t found it yet. But here’s my vaccination schedule.

My oncologist has me set for the Modera? Covid vaccine at 7:30 on Thursday. They don’t think there’s anything in it I will react to. I have a stupid amount of allergies so I have to be in a hospital or clinic setting. At 8:00am they’ll do bloodwork. At 8:30am I see the doctor. As long as everything is going well, I can have my treatment afterward. The second dose will be at my next treatment appointment Feb 11th. Same process. I’m taking my own epi pen just because I’m a little scared. I’ll be in a hospital but still.

My 19yo daughter has severe allergies. My county has said that the only way you get a vaccine is to sign up on this website, and then they will call you with a time and a place. I'm not sure how that works for her, if the place is ot a hospital (which it isn't likely to be, since Texas is setting up mass vaccination sites). They did not ask about severe allergies on the registration site.

 

[PayrollNerd]

My 19yo daughter has severe allergies. My county has said that the only way you get a vaccine is to sign up on this website, and then they will call you with a time and a place. I'm not sure how that works for her, if the place is ot a hospital (which it isn't likely to be, since Texas is setting up mass vaccination sites). They did not ask about severe allergies on the registration site.

Your daughter may want to talk to her doctor. There could be a location set up for more sensitive folks. My youngest is 23 and has severe food allergies too. She will probably have to get hers at a clinic, not necessarily a hospital.

My oncologist wanted me in a hospital setting, preferably his. LOL! He knows my entire list of allergies and how my body responds. Some are so random. Like the vine that melons grow on is nearly the same as the poison ivy vine. Watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe and poison ivy literally can kill me. The last event in 2002 was a close call.

When I completed the forms this morning, I listed my worst epi pen worthy allergies. The researcher nurse looked me up in the computer, then went over them with me. Based on the ingredient list, they felt comfortable giving me the vaccine. So far, so good.

 

[roche.analisa]

Your daughter may want to talk to her doctor. There could be a location set up for more sensitive folks. My youngest is 23 and has severe food allergies too. She will probably have to get hers at a clinic, not necessarily a hospital.

My oncologist wanted me in a hospital setting, preferably his. LOL! He knows my entire list of allergies and how my body responds. Some are so random. Like the vine that melons grow on is nearly the same as the poison ivy vine. Watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe and poison ivy literally can kill me. The last event in 2002 was a close call.

When I completed the forms this morning, I listed my worst epi pen worthy allergies. The researcher nurse looked me up in the computer, then went over them with me. Based on the ingredient list, they felt comfortable giving me the vaccine. So far, so good.

We did talk to the doctor, but all she said was, "make sure you get it in a hospital setting." The doctor is currently limited, I suspect, by the county's procedures. I am just bracing myself to be seriously inconvenienced, with the certainty that it will all be worth it to be vaccinated.

 

[mickey2942]

I noticed today that my teeth have plaque build up. I ordered a "plaque buster" on Amazon. Have not been to the dentist for over a year. I have a medical appointment next week, dermatologist, and honestly, with this new Covid strain going around, I am not sure that I should go...

 

[LadyL]

I noticed today that my teeth have plaque build up. I ordered a "plaque buster" on Amazon. Have not been to the dentist for over a year. I have a medical appointment next week, dermatologist, and honestly, with this new Covid strain going around, I am not sure that I should go...

I say don't go unless it's urgent
that's the approach I've been taking to all app'ts
although avoiding the dentist bit me in the

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I say don't go unless it's urgent
that's the approach I've been taking to all app'ts
although avoiding the dentist bit me in the

This is how I feel. Unless a medical/dental visit is absolutely necessary for your overall health and well-being, it's probably best to avoid them. Physicians, nurses, techs, and other medical/dental personnel might be taking every precaution necessary, but you have no idea about the health of other patients who visit the office.

 

[JrzyGirl70]

My dentist has been wonderful during all of this. You have to do a quick form 24 hours before appointment, call from parking lot, only one patient in the building at a time, hand sanitize at door, temp check before going in. Once you get inside they make you rinse your mouth out with a solution (tastes like baking soda/peroxide). They were always very safety conscious before Covid so nothing has changed as far as sanitation that I can see. Don't put off any care needed, it can lead to bigger problems down the road

 

[killarney rose]

I was at mine for a cleaning two weeks ago. Same protocol.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Well, this is what I’ll be doing as soon as I shake this cold.

 

[mickey2942]

I say don't go unless it's urgent
that's the approach I've been taking to all app'ts
although avoiding the dentist bit me in the

That is what I am doing. I have not even had my hair done. Once this summer, that was it. Saving a lot of money, that is for sure.

 

[acutename]

I have been cutting and coloring my own hair, doing my own mani pedicures since March. I went one time in June, but been keeping it up myself since then.

I like the semi permanent hair color the best. It is a shampoo conditioner that looks great. I am using Platinum, looks like I am having my hair professionally frosted.
Keracolor Color + Clenditioner | Ulta Beauty

because I was bored, I read all the reviews for this product on Ulta.... about 80% of people love it and about 5% say that it made all their hair fall out... of course one young woman was dying her hair a different color every day...

 

[PayrollNerd]

I’m so over my hair I’m ready to chop off my pony tail. LOL!

As safe as I have been, I managed to catch a cold last week. The doctor says it’s likely viral laryngitis. I’m finally feeling better. But I am not going anywhere other than my doctor appts.

 

[MaryG12]

I did a home perm kit a few weeks ago - normally I do one before Christmas, this time, it was a few weeks after Christmas. $8.00. As cheap as it gets, and my pathetically genetically thin hair now has body in it. Yippee.

 

[mickey2942]

because I was bored, I read all the reviews for this product on Ulta.... about 80% of people love it and about 5% say that it made all their hair fall out... of course one young woman was dying her hair a different color every day...

I have light blonde hair, and this brightens it up, makes the white look like highlights in my hair. Who knew getting white hair would be so great?! 60 is sexy!

 

[MimosaMornings]

I’m so over my hair I’m ready to chop off my pony tail. LOL!

As safe as I have been, I managed to catch a cold last week. The doctor says it’s likely viral laryngitis. I’m finally feeling better. But I am not going anywhere other than my doctor appts.

Oh my gosh! That’s scary since that’s airborne droplet transmission. (Thinking about that coughing person in Kroger yuck) Hope you feel better soon!

 

[acutename]

I have light blonde hair, and this brightens it up, makes the white look like highlights in my hair. Who knew getting white hair would be so great?! 60 is sexy!

I used to put some highlights in my hair in the winter but I stopped doing that several years ago. About 3 yrs ago, I was really bored and tried putting a very small very light pink (a few strands) highlight in my hair. Engineers I then worked with asked if I had a head injury and a well known but now deceased unusual community activist took to smiling and waving at me because he thought I had become some sort of activist too. Thus ended my personal experimentation with unusual hair colors. I will say that during the pandemic, since I do not go out much, I have seen only 2 interesting hair dye creations: one woman whose hair was bright teal green with about 4 inches of hot pink at the ends. another woman (no idea what her original hair color was) with one lateral side of her head platinum white and the other side black- she would have looked like different people from either side of her profile. So I find other people's
hair experiments very interesting but.... working from home could be an ideal time to try out some hair color, but....

 

[PayrollNerd]

Yesterday I had my eye doctor appointment. You had to do a C-19 survey, then get sprayed with hand sanitizer and masks were required. The doctor did a good job and discovered a microscopic cataract in the dead center of my right eye. He said you have to wait and watch essentially. Then when the right eye is ready to be corrected, they do the left also.

My new glasses came to $700 but my insurance and some other discount brought it down to $355. They'll be here in 2 weeks and I am so ready for them. Now that I am about recovered from this head cold nonsense I can get back to quilting. But first, I have to do some cleaning since my foster furbaby was adopted to a great home this morning.

 

[anneg]

Yesterday I had my eye doctor appointment. You had to do a C-19 survey, then get sprayed with hand sanitizer and masks were required. The doctor did a good job and discovered a microscopic cataract in the dead center of my right eye. He said you have to wait and watch essentially. Then when the right eye is ready to be corrected, they do the left also.

My new glasses came to $700 but my insurance and some other discount brought it down to $355. They'll be here in 2 weeks and I am so ready for them. Now that I am about recovered from this head cold nonsense I can get back to quilting. But first, I have to do some cleaning since my foster furbaby was adopted to a great home this morning.

I'm glad you are about over your cold and the eye exam went well. New glasses will be nice! Especially with quilting, I would think.

Glad the foster pup was adopted. Will you take on another one now?