Question of the day

I have only done take-out or eaten at home or my friend's. I want to pick something up tomorrow that I have been wanting or else some Chinese. I am not sure about the Chinese place during this, though. It's a very small take-out place (one of those hole-in-the-wall places) but they have really good food. I really don't eat in restaurants much, anyway. When I do, if I have to leave the table to go to the restroom they always take everything away and give my table to someone else. Guess that's what happens when you go alone. I even left something personal at the table once so they wouldn't do that and they threw my stuff away.

It seemed so strange one day she was posting and next day she wasn't.

I haven't eaten in a restaurant since March.

Carol, I didn't notice you had asked about St. Louis Woman. I remember that Sandy wrote she was backing off some of her team activity, but I didn't know she had left completely. I know that she was having some physical problems the last few years, but I thought it was from knee replacement or something. I hope she is okay.

How many of you have eaten in a restaurant since the pandemic?

I have not but I have ordered pizza and picked it up curbside.

Hi how are you guys doing?
I am fine. No haven't had shingles.
Had chicken pox. That wasn't fun.
They came out with the vaccine the next day. Grr lol
Don't know the lady you were asking about.
She may have closed her account.
That erases everything page,blog,Spark mail etc.
Hope that all of you are well. Holly

I haven't had any kind of vaccines since I was around 10 when I ended up paralyzed from them. So, no, I haven't had the vaccine. I can't remember what I was reading on the vaccine and the disease, but it was not making much sense to me. It was on the notes from the doctor appointment, though. I am just hoping the meds work. They worked really well when my Mom had shingles. Hers didn't really seem to hurt her bad (at least she said it didn't), but mainly itched.

I have been putting off getting the vaccine and I know I should.

Glad you got your diagnosis.

Just curious if you took the Singles vaccine they recommend before you got on the verge of getting it?

I took the vaccine injection several years ago and so far I have been lucky, I guess? It is my understanding that if you have had the injection, then the outbreak will not be as severe.

After talking to the PA and going in to see her, they decided I don't have COVID. It is possible I am on the verge of getting shingles and I am on treatment for that so that it doesn't turn into full fledged shingles. Right now it is a inflamed nerve that comes down the side of a head. The PA I saw was so sharp and the only one I talked to who could understand where the pains hit. After diagnosis she conferred with my regular doctor who agreed with her. I had never heard of that nerve problem.

You are better off testing. If you have it they can treat it if you don't they can treat your other symptoms. Better safe than sorry.

We had a friend who had polio in his teens (my parents age). Back then they would do weird things to try to get your muscles to work for you. They took muscles from his core to fix leg muscles. From what I was told, he was able to walk with a cane for a while, but I didn't know him until he was on crutches. I guess they improved treatment after that because I didn't know a friend of mine from college ever had it until she started getting post polio syndrome. They never got rid of the entire thing in people who had it. I can remember the vaccines in school. We all stood in line and got our sugar lumps.

This COVID is definitely confusing. I have had a headache and earache and a little bit of sore throat (next to the affected ear) and to have it looked at I have to get COVID testing after a telephone appointment with a PA. The only thing that is a COVID symptom is the sore throat and I can pinpoint exactly where it comes from.

Hope you all stay safe, both from the virus and from rioters.

I remember my mom telling me not to play in the gutter because I would get polio. I had 2 friends who were crippled with it. I was about 5 or 6 when the vaccine came out and my parents could sign us up fast enough.

I recall the fear that my parents had before there was a cure for polio. The young newly married woman that lived two houses away from us came down with polio. She was crippled with it but they managed to have children. We were not allowed to go to their house or play with her children for fear we would contract it.

I think 2020 will go down in history as one of the worst that I have experienced. Just glad I am old enough to let my children do my worrying.

Right now there is a lot of protesting going on here and all across the country. There are certain area's of town you should not be in. We had curfew from 7:30 pm to 6:00 am this morning. It is not safe to go out for any reason! What next?

I so agree. I live in an area with a high population of seniors self included. I am planning to stay home and safe!

It is almost June and the town is slowly opening up. We should continue to stay vigilant to what is out there and stay safe. Hope everyone is well and finding ways to stay occupied.

Glad you are staying home and taking care of yourself. No need to go out unless you absolutely have to. I like the idea of the scavenger hunt. My photo club has one going now as well. Great fun.

I've been staying distant by staying home. I would like to make some of those masks, but i don't have anything to make them with and I don't think I should go out. My cold has gotten worse, but no fever.

Mostly I've been on the computer, but they have a scavenger hunt going on and I am making pictures for that, and I've been participating in an Isolation Art Challenge (not very good at that). I might get started doing something else, who knows. I've been making soup for my meals since that lasts longer.

So how is everyone coping with the social distancing? I am lucky because I have a great friend for a husband and a really silly cat. I'm busy making face masks for our local hospital and making charity quilts.

How about you?

Just read he (or someone from Tennessee) is being prosecuted. Glad for that. That is why the shelves are bare, not because of people panicking.

What a bottom feeder.

Today there was an article about some guy in Tennessee who couldn't sell his garage full of hand sanitizer because Amazon wouldn't let him gouge people anymore. Seems he and his brother went to all the stores they could get to in Tennessee and Kentucky and bought up all the hand sanitizer and wipes and were selling them on Amazon for up to $50 a bottle.

I am doing more research! Anyone else?

I can't believe all the hoarding. Today I saw a lady buy every pack of mini kleenex left on the shelf. Really?

So far I am just wondering if they are going to close the recreation centers. They have closed just about everything else -- libraries, churches, etc., and everywhere is selling out of everything because of hoarding. The hoarders are selling 4 packs of small toilet paper rolls for $30-50. I just got a few things today, but not what is being hoarded except for a couple sweet potatoes. No potatoes left anywhere.

What changes have you experienced because of COVID19?

On the team wall, I had posted the following 10 days ago

"Umm, question ... where's STLOUISWOMAN?? Hugs, sweet lady!"

I didn't realize she was gone, only that the Question of the Day hadn't been posted for a while. I hope she is okay.

I am a little concerned about her.

I have missed her too. I just assumed she was busy with other things. I didn't realize her page was gone.

Does anyone know what happened to St. Louis Woman? Her Spark Page is gone and she hasn't been posting. I miss her. Carol