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Whatever I'm sick with is kicking the absolute E36 M3 out of me. My fever started yesterday morning but keeps coming back. It started at 99.9°F, then climbed to 101.5°F. When I got up earlier today, it was 102.8°F. I just checked it a few minutes ago and it's at 103.8°F. I've been eating 800mg of ibuprofen every 4-6 hours which has done a decent job of knocking it down but it seems to keep coming back.

If the last dose of ibuprofen doesn't knock it down this time, I think it's time to head to the ER 

Edit: Oh and I don't think it's covid because I took two at home tests and they were both negative.

stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:

Whatever I'm sick with is kicking the absolute E36 M3 out of me. My fever started yesterday morning but keeps coming back. It started at 99.9°F, then climbed to 101.5°F. When I got up earlier today, it was 102.8°F. I just checked it a few minutes ago and it's at 103.8°F. I've been eating 800mg of ibuprofen every 4-6 hours which has done a decent job of knocking it down but it seems to keep coming back.

If the last dose of ibuprofen doesn't knock it down this time, I think it's time to head to the ER 

Edit: Oh and I don't think it's covid because I took two at home tests and they were both negative.

Some sort of non-COVID cold ran through our house the other week. High temps, snots, aches. Not the 'Rona, something nasty though.

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

I am impressed, if I get to 102, I am nowhere near as articulate as you are right now.  That's the aching bones and delirium zone for me.

stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:

Whatever I'm sick with is kicking the absolute E36 M3 out of me. My fever started yesterday morning but keeps coming back. It started at 99.9°F, then climbed to 101.5°F. When I got up earlier today, it was 102.8°F. I just checked it a few minutes ago and it's at 103.8°F. I've been eating 800mg of ibuprofen every 4-6 hours which has done a decent job of knocking it down but it seems to keep coming back.

If the last dose of ibuprofen doesn't knock it down this time, I think it's time to head to the ER 

Edit: Oh and I don't think it's covid because I took two at home tests and they were both negative.

Definitely go if it gets any worse, 3200mg is the max of ibuprofen you can take a day

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

I am impressed, if I get to 102, I am nowhere near as articulate as you are right now.  That's the aching bones and delirium zone for me.

That's me if I hit over 99 degrees. My normal body temp is a bit over 94 so it's a 5 degree rise although it can be hard to get medical professionals to take it seriously 

I'm going to have to go to the ER. I can't get my fever under 101°F. I got up like 5 times last night to check my temp as I could feel the fever coming back. Lots of chills and strong body aches. My temps were around 102°F but some of that could be attributed to being buried under the covers.

Outside of getting COVID the first time in Dec of 2020, I've never been this sick. I've had a pounding headache for 3 days now and a deep, rattling cough. This sucks 

$38 to FedEx Ground a 10lb package not much bigger than a shoe box AZ-WA.

Drove out to the middle of nowhere this morning to pick up a couple of C5 wheels cheap. When I checked the address before I left, it pretty much put me in the middle of a cornfield.  I messaged an image from google maps to confirm with the seller this is where I was supposed to go, and he said yes.  Got out there.  Not the right location.  Messaged him, and he gave me some more directions, that put me back the way I came from, then south on a road that had the southbound intersection blocked for construction, and the detour took me way down back near where I live, and back out.  Still the wrong place.  That's when he realized he'd given me the right address number, but the rural road number was off by 1.  I needed to get home and make lunch by then.  He messaged me knocking $15 off the price for my trouble, so I went back out in the afternoon.  Got there this time, loaded them up, and headed home.  Cleaned them up at home and realized the back side of the rim on one of them was cracked.  I should have checked more thoroughly when I picked them up, but at this point I was frustrated and just wanted to get home, as I was already going to miss out on another errand I was planning on running today.  At least they are probably worth as much in scrap as what I paid for them, although I need to dismount the ancient R6s they came with.

Might get lucky and weld the rim, or at least get them to hold air and use them to figure out spacing on the latest project car.

I only need the rotors and calipers.  Maybe those strut hats might be better than mine.  

Four pieces from Rock Auto is $225 (w/tax/shipping) so I offer $100.  Guy gets them from warehouse and someone stored them outside.  Now it's not light surface rust....guy offers more parts I don't need.  Stock and a performance sway bar......

dang

It's been great working 60 hour work weeks with no lunch break for the past month. Base salary plus commissions berkeleying fun. I'm tired I'm grumpy I'm burned out and I'm sore. It would be nice to actually get a day off that I plan and schedule to have off too but that is definitely asking too much. I understand it's the busy season but berkeley me I need some time

I've been sitting in the ER for 2.5 hours now. The chest X-ray showed pneumonia. They are going to pump me full of IV fluids, IV antibiotics and pain killers as soon as they can get me to a room.

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

Wow, same thing happened to a coworker's wife.  She went to the doc-in-a-box with a fever / cold symptoms.  X-ray showed a big old blob of white - fluid in her lungs.

Best of luck and medical science, man.  You've had it rough lately.

In reply to Datsun240ZGuy 

guy admits first pic from 5 years ago....

In reply to Duke :

Thanks. I actually slept through most of the night last night. My fever is gone and the splitting headache finally subsided after 3 days.

I think the antibiotics are working as I'm hacking up lung butter which sucks when you're sound asleep at 2am.

But I'm starting to feel much better.

And today, I'm working on my laptop from home and coughing up my toes. 

berkeley. 

Someone really needs to drop a jailbreak for my TV or teach me how to block TV app YouTube ads. This election bullE36 M3 is just ridiculous, and TV app YouTube is only place I see ads of any sort.

In reply to RevRico :

I have read that if you use a VPN, select an Albanian IP.  Otherwise, I am listening.

In reply to RevRico :

I'm having a similar issue with spotify.  The number of political ads is maddening.

In reply to RevRico :

You should set up your Pi Hole

https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/s/wZYSMrojBE

Puddy46 said:

In reply to RevRico :

I'm having a similar issue with spotify.  The number of political ads is maddening.

I gave up on free Spotify years ago.  They played an ad literally every other song, and they usually only had 1 or 2 ads in rotation.

William Preston Lane Memorial Bridge and the traffic it creates.  I don't even have to cross the silly thing.  And it is Labor Day Weekend on top of that.

It could make for a 1.5  hour ride to go 24 miles.

*sigh*

Maybe I need an ultralight to fly to work.  But I probably would be shot down over Fort Meade.

*sigh*

Duke said:

I gave up on free Spotify years ago.  They played an ad literally every other song, and they usually only had 1 or 2 ads in rotation.

Same here. I did not know that there was such a thing as Pottery Barn Teen; now that I know, and have filed that useless bit of information deep in the mental round file, I do not need to hear it again.

75% of our TV use runs through an HTPC. It's much nicer to watch YouTube through a privacy-focused internet browser - not naming names, but one rhymes with Shmave - than to use the TV's own YouTube app. Ads almost never make it to us.

Mr_Asa said:

In reply to RevRico :

You should set up your Pi Hole

https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/s/wZYSMrojBE

 

DNS blockers alone won't get rid of YouTube ads, unfortunately. Those tend to need ad filters in the browser for now.

Opera GX browser runs YouTube ad-free, BUT you can not log in, but you can copy the video address and watch ad free. 

Due to a temporary cat, my allergies were in full swing last night so I took _a_ Benadryl before bed.  Here we are about 20 hours later and I still can barely keep my eyes open.

Why is this kicking my ass so hard?