Breakthru Covid is no joke! Got a note from Satby:
Jackal zzyzx needs some good thoughts. Can a mention be made in an open thread?
Well it’s a look. The doctors are mostly optimistic that it’s just a bad day in the worst part of Covid. Oh and by the way, I’m hooked up to a machine… pic.twitter.com/Xa3KgLnRfj
— ⏱?David Steinberg⏱? (@zzyzx) September 28, 2021
Baud
Get well, and be sure to thank your nurses!
SiubhanDuinne
All good wishes for a full and speedy recovery, zzyzx!
Joy in FL
I hope today is followed by increasingly better days.
And that is a very cool mask.
Miss Bianca
Oh, no!! Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
HeleninEire
Get well. We are all rooting for you!
Snarlymon
Definitely be nice to the nurses! They can make ur stay more comfortable. N get better quickly.
Fair Economist
Best wishes, zzyzx! Get well soon!
Comrade Colette
Yikes! Best of luck for a speedy and complete recovery! Awesome mask, also, too.
PS. Is it The Machine That Goes ‘PING!’? Because that would be really annoying.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Oh my goodness. Keep us up to date, zzyzx
Nicole
Oh no! All the good thoughts that you feel better very soon, zzyzx. And yes, excellent mask. Always important to share one’s joys, even in the hospital.
Satby and Anne Laurie, thanks for making sure we all knew.
Old School
Get better soon!
prostratedragon
Best wishes, zzyzx. Hope they take good care of you, and that you have a strong recovery.
Delk
Get well soon!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
a snake bit zzyzx once and after 12 hours of agonizing pain the snake died.
the worse mistake covid ever made is attempting to mess with zzyzx.
Elizabelle
You are rockin’ that mask. But you head home soon, hear?
catclub
@Joy in FL: I think I want a mask with a red clowns nose.
phdesmond
resolutely overcome Covid by applying the power of B-J Thought!
Ohio Mom
I generally enjoy discovering the real names and faces belonging to Juicer nyms, but not under this sort of circumstance.
Sending good thoughts for a speedy and complete recovery. Please keep us posted.
lafcolleen
Best wishes zzyzx!
today my daughter and I had rapid tests done because she has a sore throat and congestion. I feel like I have swollen glands but no other real symptoms. i was at work on Thurs & Fri last week and it turns out my co-worker’s girlfriend developed symptoms and tested positive as well as my coworker and another staffer (both were no/very minor symptoms). My daughter works in a grocery store.
so im feelimg pessimistic about the results but we are all fully vaxxed at home so other than not wanting to spread it, I’m not too worried
I kept both my kids home from school this week until we get results.
i am pissed though. 18 months of being super cautious and still potentially have COVID. Ugh
karen marie
My full sympathy. You’d have to feel pretty shitty to not only go to the hospital but to be given a bed.
I don’t know if you have an Audible subscription or not but get one if you don’t so you can listen to Robert Rankin read his books to you. They are absolutely hilarious. Sadly for Rankin, I’ll never buy one of his books because I could never read them to myself as well as he does. In addition to Rankin books you can buy with your credits, there are a bunch that Audible lets members listen to for free. Yay!
Of course, Librivox is full of literary treasures, and it’s free (although they will happily take your donation). My favorite reader is Mil Nicholson. Even if you think Dickens is dumb, give her readings a shot. She does character voices so well and really brings the novels to life in a way that surpasses anything you’ve experienced in the past.
Get well soon!
JPL
This is what thoughts and prayers should be for. I hope that you are sent home soon to finish your recovery.
Yutsano
AL, could you suggest a Caring Bridge account for zzyzx? I don’t know how comfortable he is with releasing his real name but we’ll see. I know it was a great way of keeping up with wifey when she was in the hospital. It can’t hurt to let his spouse* or his loved ones take a look at least.
*I think he mentioned a wife once but I’m not sure.
zhena gogolia
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Edmund Dantes
Get well soon zzyzx!!
Love the mask!! I am actually in process of re-watching NuWho. Almost to the end of Capaldi’s run.
mrmoshpotato
Hoping for a full and speedy recovery!
The Lodger
Get better zzyzx!
Jim Appleton
Best wishes and speedy recovery.
What were your precautions, and any idea how you were infected?
Suzanne
Awww damn! Hang in there, friend!
Bluegirlfromwyo
Kick Covid (you pick the spot!) and get well soon zzyzx!
SpaceUnit
Sincere best wishes for a quick recovery!!
Omnes Omnibus
Get well soon.
dr. bloor
Channeling good energy your way, zzyzx. Maybe the docs can do something about your Vowel Deficiency Disorder while you’re there.
Dan B
It’s too nice a day to be inside with a macine! At least it is in the south end. Get well!
zeecube
Good thoughts for zzyzx. Just started watching season 1 of Ted Lasso, and it is really a “feel good” series. Can’t help but have good thoughts after watching that. And lafcolleen, you and family take care.
WereBear
Wishing you the best. Bounce back quick, zzyzx!
opiejeanne
I hope you feel better soon.
I Love the mask.
CaseyL
Oh, no! Best wishes for a full recovery. Will you need help once you’re home? Are you in Seattle?
I bet I should be asking you that on Twitter. So I will.
Noskilz
Best of luck of with a bad situation.
Mai Naem mobile
Good luck zzyx. Does not look like fun.
I have a friend who works in a hospital so she was in the first batch vaccinated. A little after her second shot, her parents(too early to get vaccinated) who she lives with, both got COVID but she didn’t. But, then she got COVID(relatively mild) about a month ago and they didn’t. She got Pfizer and they got Moderna. I am guessing between them getting COVID and moderna they’re about as COVID proof as they can get and her Pfizer started waning???
geg6
Oh gosh! Sending good and healing thoughts his way!
feebog
Aw crap. Along with everyone else in the joint, wishing you a speedy recovery.
eclare
All fingers, toes, and paws crossed here for a quick and full recovery!
Mel
So, so sorry that you are having to deal with this awful virus. Sending virtual hugs to you and your loved ones.
Is there anything that your BJ family can do to help?
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
Yikes!
I’m so sorry to see you down, zzyzx! May you be better soon, and able to recover at home.
eddie blake
goddamn, that sucks. hope you make the virus rue the day it dared to infect you.
also, sweet TNG hat!
Betty Cracker
Well wishes tweeted! Jeebus, this is a scary time.
Jane2
I was afraid to open up the link, expecting some ICU machine, but whew! A Tardis is good for just about anything that ails you or the universe. All the best for continuous improvement.
SiubhanDuinne
I read through zzyzx’s recent tweets and noticed his adorable cat. I hope she’s getting good care and feeding from relatives or neighbours while zzyzx is unavailable.
debbie
I hope you’re better soon and your recovery is even speedier!
chopper
get better quick, dogg
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Oops, sorry, it’s a he. Mr. Barleycorn, Barley for short.
Mel
Just took a peek at zzyzx’s Twitter, hoping for good news, and it looks like he is being discharged!
Cermet
Thank goodness you have the vaccine – a breakthrough isn’t fun or anything to take lightly but without the good sense you had to get vaccinated, it could and likely would have been far worse.
Best wishes and here’s to a fast recovery and no ill effects.
trollhattan
Best wishes on the recovery, may it be speedy and complete!
Breakthrough is no joke. Our humble county alone reports over 8,000 positive tests and over 2,000 active cases among the fully vaccinated. I’ll get that jab #3 whenever they tell me I can.
Baud
@Mel: ?
rikyrah
Get well.
Don’t be mean to the staff.
Will???? for you.
kindness
What ever you do….don’t let your ‘friends’ tell you about the joys of taking Invermectin. They aren’t very good friends if they do.
rikyrah
My COVID news for the day:
Peanut’s test came back NEGATIVE??????
Kristine
Best wishes for your speedy recovery.
Kristine
@rikyrah: great news!
HRA
zzyzx it is being said you are being discharged now. Take it easy when you get home and recuperate well.
Barbara
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Ugh.
VeniceRiley
Time Lord! Get well soon zzyzx! You’ll be out yesterday in notime!
Another Scott
Yikes! I’m glad you’re over the hump!
Take it easy and get well soon.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Leslie
Glad you’re being released! Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
trollhattan
On the covid topic, yes, please.
Just do it
trollhattan
@rikyrah: Super duper!
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Soooo relieved.
ZZYZX we are all sending you our best and hope that you recover fully and quickly.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
YAY!! That is very welcome news!
SiubhanDuinne
@Another Scott:
Oh, such good news! Happy and relieved.
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah: Wonderful!
Mel
@rikyrah: Thank goodness!! That is fantastic news!!
stinger
Best wishes for a quick and complete recovery, zzyzx! Even being fully vaccinated isn’t a 100% guarantee against getting it, but from the sounds of things (recent comments upthread) you are already on the mend.
My local pharmacy doesn’t have enough shots for walk-ins to get a COVID booster, but they will start taking appointments tomorrow. So I got a flu shot today. There were many other apparent “seniors” there, asking about both (and getting the flu shot). The pharmacist said maybe wait a couple of weeks for the COVID booster. So far my arm is barely sore at all.
Starfish
@Yutsano: Twitter has been fun with your virtual love fest, and I want to reply with this.
banditqueen
zzyxz: keep on pushing and pulling through–and don’t let anyone put fuxnews on–you need to rest up!
There go two miscreants
Late to the thread, but best wishes for rapid recovery! Happy to see that you’re being discharged.
Zzyzx
Thanks everyone. This has not exactly been my favorite week ever.
Kelly
Best Wishes!
I plan to get my booster in late October when I am 6 months out from my second Pfitzer shot
Starboard Tack
@Kelly: I got the Pfizer booster Saturday. A little worse reaction than the first, not so much as the second. I was ok yesterday.
HRA
@rikyrah: Great news and the best news!
Brachiator
Best wishes zzyzx. Get well soon!!
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@Zzyzx: Very sorry you’re feeling poorly. Here’s to much better, healthier weeks ahead.
JAFD
Hope you get lots lots better real real soon !
( Ivermectin ??? … Just say ‘Neigh ! )
Ken
Sometimes being late to the thread is better! Congratulations on your discharge!
(Though I wish hospitals didn’t have multiple meanings for that word….)
laura
Chiming in with the get well soons zzyzx, but your rough scuffle with breakthrough Covid just makes me furious. All of us have done so much to do our part for ourselves AND for others – family, friends, coworkers, youngs, olds, the health challenged, and random strangers we may pass, people we interact with on the regular and people we’re never ever going to meet or pass in the street to end this deadly global pandemic. But for the dedicated selfish consequence avoiding bullies who blame us for their obstanance and refusal to unite over health & safety, you’d be commenting about grammar pedantry.
Great news about the negative Peanut test Rikyrah!
Josie
So glad you are being discharged. Hoping you continue to improve and have no lingering side effects.
Mary G
From following your Twitter for a while, zzyzx, I know you are a huge Phish fan, so get well soon so you can see another show! Glad your hospital stay was so short.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Wishing you a speedy recovery and glad you’re being released
Lyrebird
Many many good thoughts to a fine Jackal!
@rikyrah:
…and to a wonderful Peanut, hooray!
Zelma
Glad you’re being released. Take care of yourself.
scav
Adding more best wishes & mask admiration to a considerable pile. Go zzyzx! and may a xyzzy escape emerge as well.
Zzyzx
@Mary G: Phish’s guitarist gave me a shoutout at the show tonight.
Citizen Alan
Had and passed a covid test today. Which was reassuring since I just spent 4 days back in the hell hole of Mississippi for a wedding. I’m now back in queens and feel so much safer.
Citizen_X
Great to hear that you’re improving. Don’t go eating no horse paste now!
ETA: @Zzyzx: Woot!
?BillinGlendaleCA
I see you’re in the hospital and already out, things move fast here…
Get well soon.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I hope you have a full recovery! Best wishes for your healing… :)
Betsy
Sending a prayer for your quick and full recovery.
Hoping you feel the kind thoughts of your fellow Juicers surrounding you.
Hoping you rest easy in the goodness and skill of all the nurses, docs, and others who are there to help you – right down to the researchers and engineers who invented those machines and medicines.
The world is full of wonderful people, and they are on your team.
Jean
@rikyrah: yay! So much relief
Jean
@Another Scott: Great News! Rest and be well soon!
lafcolleen
My daughter snd i both got negative test results!
i was actually shocked – i was convinced the results would be positive.
this is the second time I’ve been tested and the third for my daughter. we got tested in the past due to close contact with someone that tested positive but no symptoms. Masking for the win!
now this is just a reminder to keep up all the mitigation efforts.
Kattails
Just catching up here, glad you’re headed home, breathing is a very good thing. Sorry you had to go through that at all. I’m up in New England and the local Hannafords grocery is putting out the fancier masks in single packets just as you go in the door, so they’re taking this seriously. And this is why.
All the best wishes.
Kayla Rudbek
Good to hear that you are getting out of the hospital, and hope that you fully recover very soon!
Kayla Rudbek
@rikyrah: excellent news!
Ms. Deranged in AZ
My thoughts are with you, zzyzx! Please take care and get better.
Ohio Mom
One thing I think we can be pretty sure of: if the hospital docs say you are good to go home, you are. They are all Covid experts now.
This isn’t like one of those medical conditions that stumps them and is misdiagnosed by many specialists over many years and is used as an example in that “Diagnosis” series in the NYT Sunday Magazine. At least now, after a year and a half it isn’t.