[Milsurplus] AB5S Kung Flu Update, 13 June

[MICHAEL BITTNER]

Hi Dave,
I was in the verge of inquiring how you were doing when your Update came through. I'm glad to hear you are getting better, but disheartened to hear that the rest of your family are having the same illness. I hope and pray for their recoveries as well as yours.
Mike, W6MAB
P.S. It would be instructive to know how you think you were first exposed to the virus.

> On June 13, 2020 at 2:53 PM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com mailto:arc5 at ix.netcom.com > wrote:
> 
> 
>     Kung Flu Update
>     13 June.
>     First- my family is grateful for everyone's thoughts
>     and prayers.They've been a great comfort.
>     May the good Lord remember your kindness.
> 
>     I'm better and slowly recovering my strength.
>     Kay and Annabelle are still running fevers.
>     Amber is just beginning to cough.
>     Docs say to assume everyone
>     in the house is now positive.
> 
>     I would probably no longer be contagious,
>     except for the fact that I'm in the house with
>      three contagious people. I'm praying to God
>      I won't have a relapse. One "mild" round of this
>      is bad enough and they say the immunity is
>     only good for 6 months. Oh joy.
>     "Mild" Hantavirus illness was worse, but it was
>      confined to respiratory distress and I didn't
>      have to worry about giving it to the family.
>     This monster attacks your whole body and can
>     "turn on a dime," going from what feels
>     like a cold to life-threatening over night.
> 
>     Multiple the "normal" flu. Then add terrible
>     headaches, chills and tremors, lower backache
>     so you can't sleep, and your sense of taste
>     and smell disappears completely.
>     Low to moderate fever. My fever has been gone for
>      a few days. Smell and Taste came back the day
>     I left the hospital, but are now gone again.
>     Probably from continual assault by the
>     live virus still being shed
>     from Kay and the babies.
> 
>     The doctors are surprised that neither Kay nor I
>     are in the hospital on a ventilator. I credit
>     the prayers of loved ones and friends, plus our
>      therapeutic regime of
>     quinine (tonic water)/vita. C/ Zinc.
>     Half a cup of the diet tonic water,
>     morning and evening without fail.
>     I recommend the diet because there's more sugar
>      in regular tonic water than in Cola, and you
>      really don't need that much sugar everyday.
>     I know that certain medical authorities have
>      pooh-poohed the quinine, but as you've seen
>      the situation is evolving all the time
>     and people are finding out what they believed
>      one minute turns out to be false and vice versa.
>      All I know is the results. I'm recovering,
>     Kay is still active but recovering,
>     and the doctors are scratching their heads-
>     they tell us very few families with our
>     health problems get away without being
>     ventilated. That's good enough for me.
> 
>     Please say an extra prayer for Annabelle,
>     who is having the worst time, and Amber,
>      who is just starting and we hope will
>     miss the worst of it.
> 
>     Thank you again for your ongoing kindness.
> 
>     GL ES 73 OM DE Dave AB5S
> 
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