Joe Bourbon’s Basement Pub – A Sanctuary for All Lifters
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Thanks for asking, he's much better now, especially since schools reopened and also his judo and BJJ classes came back. Just had to be resocialised I guess.
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I know a lot of people who had anxiety issues with things as a result of lockdowns, etc last year. I know working in hospitality that it didn't do me any favours at the time- working as a bar manager and having to constantly adjust to everything sucked. Customers were the fucking worst, and then it would suck to turn up and see coworkers not enforcing the rules and restrictions and have to fucking tell everyone to sit back down and we'd get to them was shit because it suddenly makes me look like an asshole. God, I'm glad to be out of that place now.
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My son has definitely been affected by the lockdown. He started school this year and having weird rules about who you can play with, having to wear masks etc and then having schools opened and closed multiples times is such a shitty way to be introduced to school. He also had way too much screen time last Summer and while schools were closed. When we clamp down on screen time we notice a big improvement in his behaviour but it's fucking tough because I'm supposed to be working. Luckily my work has been super flexible about my massive swings in productivity. Thankfully with the Summer weather most of the kids on our street are outside regularly and that really helps.
I really hope school is consistent when it starts again in September. My wife is trying to get a business started and this has all been even harder on her. She feels so stuck. At least I get paid for my work.
I really hope school is consistent when it starts again in September. My wife is trying to get a business started and this has all been even harder on her. She feels so stuck. At least I get paid for my work.
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So, I got severe COVID-19 while I was in Liberia.
It's quite a story.
Contracted it right at the end of May and became symptomatic in early June, with fever, cough and sore throat. Because of the obvious, got a PCR test and it said negative. FYI at that point, as now, I had had my first shot of Astra Zeneca. That was a relief because the best/only half good clinic in the country doesn't take COVID patients. Because I had a false negative they thought the clouding in my lungs was something else and they said bronchitis. Gave me a load of medicine for that and sent me home. Had a few days of really horrible symptoms and then a colleague persuaded me to go back. So they admitted me. After a few days I started having problems breathing. Blood oxygen down below 80. So they put me on Oxygen. It wasn't great because they ran out of Oxygen for a while. And there were a lot of other complications like the tank didn't move and I had to take it off to go to the bathroom, which mean I would be gasping for breath by the time I was done. I won't tell all the details of how messed up the clinic was because they probably kept me alive and I don't think anywhere else in the country would have,
Around about that time my security company decided to evacuate me, so they started working on medical evacuation. I spent a couple of days sick as hell, and also got another COVID test. Because you can't get out of Liberia without one. And shortly after that I got my SECOND false positive PCR test. So they loaded me onto an air ambulance. I then lay in a tiny plastic tube for 8 hours. Just me and two paramedics, Liberia to Edinburgh in Scotland direct. Crashed hard on the plane due to the low air pressure, and they had to put me on 'Non-Invasive Ventilation'- a breathing apparatus that pretty much smashes your face with high pressure oxygen and makes you breath. Because they suspected COVID (despite the two negative tests) I wasn't allowed out of the tube. Had a chemical sock to piss in.
Got to Edinburgh, transferred to the hospital and diagnosed with COVID within about 10 minutes. Found out later it was the Delta variant. They transferred me to ICU in a specialized COVID unit and gave me countless different drugs. Apparently it had already gone after my heart while I was in Liberia but I beat that one back, but obviously it was going after my lungs, plus also liver and kidneys. I basically hadn't slept for the last 5 or so days and was delirious so they also sedated me. Next day my blood gasses got a bit worse (despite being on high pressure oxygen at the max setting) and they said if it got any worse I would have to be ventilated. Fortunately almost immediately after that my body got its shit together and apparently my Oxygen demand went down 70% in the next 12 hours. Basically I was completely immobile for the next 4-5 days, except for being able to my arms and hands. Shortly after that I was able to sit in a chair for a day, and around then they moved me to a room in a regular war in their respiratory diseases unit. I was there for around a week. Towards the end they weaned me off Oxygen (went from 4L a minute, to 2, to 1 to 0 in a day) and once I had been off Oxygen for a day they were happy to let me go. I went to my parents' place. That was about 4 and a half weeks ago.
Recovery is ongoing. At first I was weak as a kitten- I was exhausted walking out of the hospital ward and would get badly out of breath just going to the bathroom. The first few days I focused on eating a lot of food and then I basically spent 3/4 of the next 5 or so days in bed or on the sofa. After a week I got really frustrated because I was literally no better, still exhausted and out of breath from doing almost nothing. So I started doing more active rehab, walking laps of a section of the garden (probably about 15m per lap), breathing exercises and some bodyweight squats and knees-down pushups. First time I could do about two laps, and I had to stop regularly and was sucking air hard. After a week it was a lot easier to do laps of the garden so I started walking up the hill my folks' house is on. First time I tried I managed about 20 meters, had to stop three times and was bent over double at one point. A guy stopped in his car to check if I was okay. But I tried to do it twice a day and add some distance every time. I guess I progressed really quickly because after about 10 days I was able to walk a bit over a mile uphill continually. Breathing hard and heart pounding, but was able to do it.
This week my partner and I went on holiday to the Lake District. We went on two hikes- the first was about 5-6 miles with a 350m rise, the second was 4 miles, with a 450m rise all in the first hour. The second hike in particular was really hard for me- pretty much at my limit these days. It felt *really* good to be standing at the top of these hills, just over four weeks after being released from hospital, and five weeks after nearly being on a ventilator. There is still some way to go- apparently people who had severe/critical COVID like I did have lung damage that takes 3-12 months to recover from. I feel like it will be 3 months for me, but we are only one month into it so I will see.
We found out later that there was some issue in the testing lab in Liberia. Had I got an accurate test I am not sure I would have made it- they wouldn't have let me out of the country and I was basically at the limit of their ability to provide treatment. At the least, I would have ended up in a crappy Liberian hospital attached to a ventilator from the 80s that would have given me permanent lung damage.
tl;dr- Jaunty df. COVID by KO- 8-10, 8-10, 8-10, 10-9, df. in R5 by Jaunty being awesome.
It's quite a story.
Contracted it right at the end of May and became symptomatic in early June, with fever, cough and sore throat. Because of the obvious, got a PCR test and it said negative. FYI at that point, as now, I had had my first shot of Astra Zeneca. That was a relief because the best/only half good clinic in the country doesn't take COVID patients. Because I had a false negative they thought the clouding in my lungs was something else and they said bronchitis. Gave me a load of medicine for that and sent me home. Had a few days of really horrible symptoms and then a colleague persuaded me to go back. So they admitted me. After a few days I started having problems breathing. Blood oxygen down below 80. So they put me on Oxygen. It wasn't great because they ran out of Oxygen for a while. And there were a lot of other complications like the tank didn't move and I had to take it off to go to the bathroom, which mean I would be gasping for breath by the time I was done. I won't tell all the details of how messed up the clinic was because they probably kept me alive and I don't think anywhere else in the country would have,
Around about that time my security company decided to evacuate me, so they started working on medical evacuation. I spent a couple of days sick as hell, and also got another COVID test. Because you can't get out of Liberia without one. And shortly after that I got my SECOND false positive PCR test. So they loaded me onto an air ambulance. I then lay in a tiny plastic tube for 8 hours. Just me and two paramedics, Liberia to Edinburgh in Scotland direct. Crashed hard on the plane due to the low air pressure, and they had to put me on 'Non-Invasive Ventilation'- a breathing apparatus that pretty much smashes your face with high pressure oxygen and makes you breath. Because they suspected COVID (despite the two negative tests) I wasn't allowed out of the tube. Had a chemical sock to piss in.
Got to Edinburgh, transferred to the hospital and diagnosed with COVID within about 10 minutes. Found out later it was the Delta variant. They transferred me to ICU in a specialized COVID unit and gave me countless different drugs. Apparently it had already gone after my heart while I was in Liberia but I beat that one back, but obviously it was going after my lungs, plus also liver and kidneys. I basically hadn't slept for the last 5 or so days and was delirious so they also sedated me. Next day my blood gasses got a bit worse (despite being on high pressure oxygen at the max setting) and they said if it got any worse I would have to be ventilated. Fortunately almost immediately after that my body got its shit together and apparently my Oxygen demand went down 70% in the next 12 hours. Basically I was completely immobile for the next 4-5 days, except for being able to my arms and hands. Shortly after that I was able to sit in a chair for a day, and around then they moved me to a room in a regular war in their respiratory diseases unit. I was there for around a week. Towards the end they weaned me off Oxygen (went from 4L a minute, to 2, to 1 to 0 in a day) and once I had been off Oxygen for a day they were happy to let me go. I went to my parents' place. That was about 4 and a half weeks ago.
Recovery is ongoing. At first I was weak as a kitten- I was exhausted walking out of the hospital ward and would get badly out of breath just going to the bathroom. The first few days I focused on eating a lot of food and then I basically spent 3/4 of the next 5 or so days in bed or on the sofa. After a week I got really frustrated because I was literally no better, still exhausted and out of breath from doing almost nothing. So I started doing more active rehab, walking laps of a section of the garden (probably about 15m per lap), breathing exercises and some bodyweight squats and knees-down pushups. First time I could do about two laps, and I had to stop regularly and was sucking air hard. After a week it was a lot easier to do laps of the garden so I started walking up the hill my folks' house is on. First time I tried I managed about 20 meters, had to stop three times and was bent over double at one point. A guy stopped in his car to check if I was okay. But I tried to do it twice a day and add some distance every time. I guess I progressed really quickly because after about 10 days I was able to walk a bit over a mile uphill continually. Breathing hard and heart pounding, but was able to do it.
This week my partner and I went on holiday to the Lake District. We went on two hikes- the first was about 5-6 miles with a 350m rise, the second was 4 miles, with a 450m rise all in the first hour. The second hike in particular was really hard for me- pretty much at my limit these days. It felt *really* good to be standing at the top of these hills, just over four weeks after being released from hospital, and five weeks after nearly being on a ventilator. There is still some way to go- apparently people who had severe/critical COVID like I did have lung damage that takes 3-12 months to recover from. I feel like it will be 3 months for me, but we are only one month into it so I will see.
We found out later that there was some issue in the testing lab in Liberia. Had I got an accurate test I am not sure I would have made it- they wouldn't have let me out of the country and I was basically at the limit of their ability to provide treatment. At the least, I would have ended up in a crappy Liberian hospital attached to a ventilator from the 80s that would have given me permanent lung damage.
tl;dr- Jaunty df. COVID by KO- 8-10, 8-10, 8-10, 10-9, df. in R5 by Jaunty being awesome.
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Fucking hell, that is quite the story. Very glad to hear you made it, and are on the mend.
Fingers crossed you are back to full health in 3 months or so.
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And I didn't even go into how much mass I have lost from my pecs and biceps. This disease is truly monstrous.
Thanks! Three months is definitely the target.
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+1, that is quite the story @JauntyAngle and I'm glad you've come out the other side. I haven't "known" too many people who have had COVID, but this is definitely the worst account of it of someone I know (albeit via Sherdog).
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Get well soon, @JauntyAngle! I know a few people who had somewhat nasty cases of COVID, but your story trumps them all. Glad you're here to tell it.
Completely unrelated: I just got back into making my own kefir, are any of you into fermenting stuff?
Completely unrelated: I just got back into making my own kefir, are any of you into fermenting stuff?
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of fermented foods, I've made milk kefir for years. I found a place to get raw milk not too far from me so have used that exclusively the past couple of years.
I've also experimented with water kefir in the past, and make kimchi occasionally.
If you can get raw milk I'd definitely recommend trying it for kefir. It tastes even better, there 'may' be additional health benefits, and potential contamination concerns of raw milk are significantly reduced as in theory the kefir grains should kill any nasties.
If you can't get hold of it, it's no worries though, kefir made with pasteurised milk is still incredible stuff.
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Never made kefir, but I've made kimchi, sauerkraut, fermented jalapenos, kombucha, beer, mead, wine, and cider. I have a curing chamber, but haven't done any fermented sausages yet, only whole-muscle cures.
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Fucking hell. Someone award that man a Jaunty Point. Glad you're alive @JauntyAngle
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I can get kimchi from the Korean mom and pop-store right across the street, it's so fucking good. Raw milk is really, really expensive here, but I might give it a try at some point. Water kefir wasn't really vibing with me for some reason, not sure why.
Homemade fermented sausages must be dope, all I got going is a little biltong every now and then, which is already great while much, much simpler.
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I'd love to get a curing chamber, maybe in the next house when I'll hopefully have space. I can't believe I've never brewed beer, I'm going to have to try it soon.
Yeah, I didn't last long with water kefir. I made a lemon and ginger recipe a few times and it tasted great, but it feels like more effort than milk kefir. I like the fact that with milk kefir I can leave the grains in the fridge with some milk for months if I take a break, and they're happy until I use them again: in contrast, water kefir was a much more continuous process. There's more research around the benefits of milk kefir in comparison too, so I settled on that.
Raw milk's not too expensive here, although the price has gone up recently to £1.20 per litre (~ €1.41 / $1.66). I buy it direct from the farm (they have a raw milk vending machine!).
I agree that proper kimchi tastes amazing! There's some interesting research on the benefits of using/introducing Lactobacillus sakei (present in some kimchi) for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis.
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About a year ago I was complaining about waiting for feedback from job interviews in my training log, today I was informed that I'll be leading my own team in the department from August on. Thank you, Sherbros.
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That's great. Congratulations.
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Glad to hear you pulled through and are getting better JauntyAngle. My case of covid was like a bad flu and I always tell people it sucked but could have been a lot worse and holy shit Jaunty yours was a LOT worse.
In training news, I finally bought a bike and my spare bedroom is finally cleaned out enough to use weights in. Time to get healthy!
In training news, I finally bought a bike and my spare bedroom is finally cleaned out enough to use weights in. Time to get healthy!
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Thanks! I recall we went back and forward on this quite a few years ago, and it turned out that the International JauntyPoint Committee doesn't allow me to get JauntyPoints. It's a burden.
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Thanks, Dr. B. It's definitely going well. I started jogging again last week. I am up to being able to jog continually for about 40 minutes now- albeit at a speed slow it's not really that different from a walk.
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