John,
Could be allergies. Never had them before we volunteered in AZ two seasons. Hope you get over whatever it is.

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Originally posted by JohnOH327:
George, hope you are feeling better. Usually a virus has to run it's course. There is some kind of bug here in AZ. I have a cough for the past 2 months I can't shake, but it is a dry hacking cough. May be the dust. John

......go to the doctor!....if it's a bacteria-get antibiotics if it is a virus you should be told to come back if it gets worse....simple-but too many just try home cures cuz they feel too bad......take your body and your mind will follow....pay the cost and be thankful you have the choice of going to a doctor instead of dying like in some second/third world countries......we have all kinds of health care available- if we are smart we will use it...if we aren't smart we die.....geofkaye

Wow! One hour in the emergency room waiting area is pretty fast for the East Valley area this time of year. lol Last summer when all the “snow birds” were gone you could just walk in and go right to bed, almost. Last year it was generally several hours wait. I saw on the local news a couple of nights ago that AZ was the 2nd worst in the country for flu this year so far. They also said the flu shot this year is only good for about half of the flu cases showing up.
Brian
Just watch out for those “mouth wide open slobbery love filled kisses from the little ones” and you should be ok. lol Shoot, this all reminds me that I still have 3 GGrand kids that I haven't seen yet. I may have to get my fix soon.

Ron

Get the flu shot. While there are many bugs out there that it is ineffective for, the $10.00 and the few minutes in line are well worth the protection against the ones it is good for.

A few years back, my wife was an elementary school principal and I spent a lot of time in airplanes, airports, and in some pretty large crowds. The few years that we didn't get our shots, we always paid the price. One or the other of us brought something home more than once during the winter. When we did get the shots, we spent a lot less time sick.

Ive also begun to carry a container of disinfectant towels in the truk, when Im about to enter a wal-mart or other store to shop, I remove one and take it in with me and scrub the handles of the push cart and other areas. Im sure I caught my initial infection on one of those carts.After shopping. I return to the truck and scrub again. At my age I dont need any of the cud that children and others spread without knowing. george

Not that it would cause the flu, but when I had the largest handyman business in Las Vegas, some of my work was in the Albersons food chain. For some reason I decided to run a hand washing survey. I checked the mens room out when I was doing work in there. 1/3 of the men did not wash their hands. A little less than 1/3 of the women did not wash. I checked the roller towels for fresh water aften they left. The worst one I found was the meat cutter in one market where I bought all their unsold dark or aged steaks at 50% off. When I saw that he did not wash his hands and went straight back to cutting meat, I told the store manager and never bought any more meat there. I see a lot of no hand washing in Walmarts. It does make me a might sick when I see people grazing. Eating things like grapes or cherries and then go right back to pushing the shopping cart.
Carl

Hi there,

We are dealing with the monster cold - fever -body aches and coughing from this flu-cold here in Galveston too. Hubby has had it for 4 weeks and is okay except for some minor coughing.
My version of it turned into walking pneumonia
and after 2 visits to the doc and 2 sets of antibiotics I am able to breathe and feel almost human. I am all for fighting it without drugs but what do you do when your body does not win the fight and you are full of green slime? The choices are to just die or get antibiotics and live. If you are the stong type you should wait until you get the infection into your heart. Then what?
I am so tired of the story about over use of antibiotics.
How can that be possible you have to be almost dead before you can get them now?
Anyway - If you are sick and need medication you should get help.
Thats my story and I am sticking to it.
We had flu shots too. Not sure why?
Happy trails to yall
turtlebounder

Antibiotics are used too much, there is no doubt about that. What is worse is what I used to do and did not know the harm I was doing to not only myself but others. I would get a prescription of the latest and greatest that would say on the label to take three a day for five days. It would cost about $30.00. I almost always would take 1/2 of them and save the rest for when I got something else thinking that I would save $30.00. What I really did was help develope the super bugs. I would almost kill off whatever bug I had, but not quite. I would feel OK and was proud that I saved some money. Since there was a few sick bugs left, I helped develope the problem that we have today. Nothing works as well as it should.
Carl