it is the season for exotic diseases.....

[h0ughy]

and i have had a beauty which has laid me out this week, and i am off most of next week as well. so far both the hospital and the Doc haven't named it but it gave me a ambulance trip to hospital and a week and a half off work - not bad for an unnamed bug? I thought it was German measles, but it has symptoms of scarlet fever, either way its not pretty, but then neither am i LOL.

i am fatigued, suffering blistered lips, full body rash and have had lots of iv antibiotics and oral anti biotics pumped into me - and it all started with a sniffle which i thought was due to an alergy......

ISSAC isnt looking like i will be there this year wholly due to this:sadeyes:

[astroron]

:hi:Dave, I noticed your absence,I hope you get well soon:thumbsup:

[sheeny]

That's no good Houghy. That'd be the "Achtung Red Hough Fever" no doubt.:P

I hope you're well enough to make it to IISAC, but I'll understand if you don't make it. Its no fun being there when your sick... actually its no fun being sick is it?

Take it easy!

Al.

[Octane]

I suspect it's due to you not having bought anything in recent times.

This is what happens when you don't continually purchase astrophotographic goodies.

Get better, soon.

H

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

I hope that you are not in too much discomfort and wish you a full and speedy recovery. It doesn’t sound much fun – can you read, watch “how to” CCD imaging DVD’s and do other at-home stuff to help pass the time?

Cheers

Dennis

[koputai]

It's not Shingles is it? There is a bit of an unannounced epidemic of it going around at the moment. It's amazing, never in my 42 years had I actually heard of someone having Shingles, then in the last month, five family or friends have had it.

Anyhoo, it doesn't sound like you're having much fun. Get well soon!

Cheers,
Jason.

[leon]

Houghy mate you are dead right, ;) forget about the dead bit, :eyepop: :lol::lol: yep mate, there is so much stuff happening with people this year we have to wonder.:shrug:

Leon :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

far too much i am afraid - i think people forget about their hygiene far too much

no the blood test said it was bacteria based mainly - well thats what the doc relayed to me anyway. thanks for the well wishes

its driving me nuts Dennis - i am too tired to do anything

H you have no idea ;) as to what may have been purchased especially with the dollar so strong, i might be sick but not dead yet

Al i went up to the back to do some astro stuff today but i was far too tired, so i went through my box of tricks and found some filters i dont or never use and have been meaning to sell at some stage. So i gathered them and put them up for sale today. that buggered me just doing that so how on earth i can get ready for IISAC has me guessing. dont get me wrong, i love the event, but i fear i couldnt even last a day:sadeyes:

Thanks Ron:thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Huge hugs Dave.
Get well soon, real soon, really really soon.

[Octane]

I'm intrigued. What did you buy that made you so sick? : P

H

[sheeny]

I can sympathise. I was next to useless at IISAC last year with the flu. You know I have to be sick to go to Lostock and not swim!

I hope you're feeling better real soon!

Al.

[mozzie]

hope you get well soon sounds like a bugger!! on the plus surf the web and buy a little astro stuff the dollars up:thumbsup:

[GTB_an_Owl]

i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:
i will be better in 10 days :face:

trust me Dave

get better big fella
Lostock needs you

geoff

[acropolite]

Look after yourself Dave, hope you get well soon,

Look on the bright side, at least the missus will have to be nice to you and you can get in unlimited forum time.

[h0ughy]

i need to give her space phil - my vacant space on occasions:rofl:

due to a coughing fit i strained my grion ans stomach muscles. i cant lift a thing or bend over very well

[GTB_an_Owl]

ok Dave

fill us in

(feeling) getting any better ?

geoff

[h0ughy]

rash wise -slowly - cold/sinus wise -a little better but i am still very tired and i still ache in places you normally wouldnt;)

so every day in every way i am getting better and better:rofl:

oh how i wish that were true:D

as therapy i bought Eclipse Orchestrator.........:help::lol:

havent driven the car now for a week - wife still wont let me out

[beren]

Get well soon Dave :thumbsup: I share your pain I'm not having much luck either with a series of misadventures and surgery and now in the last week a kidney stone of all things, feels like I have gone 15 rounds with George Foreman everyday :P

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi Dave

Hope you are well soon. At least it is something that you can recover from. :help:

Now if you catch Aperture fever however there is no known cure, just treatment that keeps on getting more and more expensive.:shrug:

Barry:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

yes i do sympaythize, it must be because we are getting older



Barry i got myself up to a 16" but had to sell that off - the big scopes at Astrofest give me hope;)

[casstony]

Houghy, if you want a definite diagnosis get a referral to an infectious diseases physician/clinic in one of the big city hospitals; a 'bacterial based bug' would not be good enough for me.

[Spanrz]

I dunno if this is weird, but whatever is going around at the moment, it's a bugger Houghy.

My wife had what I thought was the flu, perfect flu symptoms off work for 4 days. Croaky voice for 3 days.
2 days in, I got a real bad cough, chest infection and very heavy sinuses. I was off work for 3 days (well 2 and a half).
Copped a huge coughing fit, made my stomach muscles hurt after 3 days. I had a croaky voice for days.
Oh man.

2 weeks, round of anti-biotics, an inhaler, sudafed and nasal decongestant later, I still have a stuffed up nose. Doc told me it was a bug I copped off the wife, went to her for a cholesterol test a week later and said I've still got the bug, now said it was allergies.
Never had allergies and a bit annoyed that it's been classified as allergies and palmed off.

But whatever this is, it's a doozy. A few other people I know have exactly the same thing, it hangs for weeks/months.

Hope you get better soon, Houghy.

[ballaratdragons]

Geez Houghy, I just noticed this thread.

Mate, get well. It's no fun being sick.

Are they going to give you an Astrogearectomy? (the operation where they remove your ApatureDrool Gland)

[wavelandscott]

Hope you get back to 100% soon...some of the bugs around can be quite nasty. Hang in there and just remember that Spring and good health are on the way for you where as we here in the Great White North are approaching fall/winter and cold and yucky weather.

[Ric]

Hi Dave just saw this thread.

Hope your on mend now, being crook is always a bummer.

Cheers

[GTB_an_Owl]

you up and about yet Dave ?

geoff

[h0ughy]

no - back to the docs again today, another round of antibiotics:sadeyes:

[GTB_an_Owl]

so will your medical fund cover the cost of the ambulance to and from lostock, plus a full time nurse for the weekend Dave ? :D

geoff

[h0ughy]

at this stage i am not going to be there unless i improve a hell of a lot

[GTB_an_Owl]

keep pluggin away Dave - keep pluggin away

them antibiotics don't work miracles overnite

geoff

[Jen]

:eyepop: hope you get well soon Dave xoxoxo

Nothing worse than being sick when there is a special event that you have been hanging out for all year :shrug:

[h0ughy]

lol all 3 of them, this, SPSP and Qld Astrofest. only have done astrofest so far this year:help:

[jjjnettie]

And we're really glad you made it up Dave.
It was wonderful to catch up again.

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Alto' I could have lived without the image of full body rash, you have my deepest sympathy!!! Both Carron and I were laid-low by something last month.
The rash makes it sound like an allergy (if you haven't had Measles, Chicken Pox and its not Meningitis).
Get back to the doctor as, contrary to accepted wisdom, you CAN have more than one thing wrong with you.
I had 7, and nearly died. So keep nagging 'em!
GWS
Peter