The Sense of Fatigue

Yesterday I went for a run and I struggled. The distance was four point five kilometres so it was short. I suspect that it's running straight after lunch that made me find the run hard.

Last night I felt fine. I felt like cycling today, and I hesitated between the group ride and going for an Ingress First Saturday event in Geneva. Now I find that neither motivated me this morning. I woke feeling tired.

I don't know whether it's for atmospheric reasons, given that the barometer is going down ahead of rain, or because of pollen as my immune system fights the pollen from two types of trees. I suspect that the barometer and pollen are playing a role.

I also suspect that the weather today, and the thought of a strenuous bike ride also contribute. I enjoy cycling but I like to be on top form. As I flit between sports I am not as strong a cyclist as some of them.

I also suspect that I have little to no desire to go to Geneva. Ever. That also weighed on me this morning. My desire to go to Geneva was killed by their desire to discourage cars. I also don't want to go to a population centre when I hear coughing, and people don't mask, or at the very least, use their sleeves to absorb some of the spray.

And Finally

Yesterday's run was affected by running too soon after eating but today's is due to the slight decline in sunlight, and the huge amount of pollen in the air. And finally, if the weather was good and I felt full of energy I'd cycle to Geneva, participate in the event, and then cycle home. It's because I feel fatigued today that I question whether to participate. The joke of going to Geneva and back is 10 CHF.

It feels like a waste given that I don't feel one hundred percent.

Learned an interesting fact today... Its kind of common sense iff you have a persistent and powerful cough it can irritate your lungs but when the outside lining of you lungs become irritated it can produce sharp chest pains that don't seem related to breathing or coughing at all.

I've had a horrible cough for about a week or two with spells that last for a minute or more and cause me to get light headed or grey out (obviously POTS related). Last night it got worse to the point that I began vomiting and then started having pains across my chest and occasionally down into my stomach as well. Reluctantly I talked myself into going to the ER and after Iabs and X ray as well as (thankfully) 2L of saline that's what was explained to me.

#Coughing #POTS #ChestPain #ChronicIllness

Violet Stegosaurus

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Sigh. After a week of me #coughing & going through tissues at a great rate, last night I #tested #positive for #RSV.

Me, being me, had never even heard of it.

Sigh. It’s just after 5am, let’s see what fun life has in store for me today.

#health

"May?" The sky is already a strange yellow hue, I'm #coughing and #eyes are #burning

https://gothamist.com/news/wildfire-smoke-from-new-jersey-may-affect-nyc-air-quality-officials-say #brooklyn #parkSlope

https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/539/

Not gonna lie, icecream helps my healing

#pardonOurArtist #covid19 #recovery #tuesdayvibe #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #icecream #soothing #sorethroat #coughing #covidisntover #TuesdayMotivaton #VibeCheck

Simulating a Sneeze

Sneezing and coughing can spread pathogens both through large droplets and through tiny, airborne aerosols. Understanding how the nasal cavity shapes the aerosol cloud a sneeze produces is critical to understanding and predicting how viruses could spread. Toward that end, researchers built a “sneeze simulator” based on the upper respiratory system’s geometry. With their simulator, the team mimicked violent exhalations both with the nostrils open and closed — to see how that changed the shape of the aerosol cloud produced.

The researchers found that closed nostrils produced a cloud that moved away along a 18 degree downward tilt, whereas an open-nostril cloud followed a 30-degree downward slope. That means having the nostrils open reduces the horizontal spread of a cloud while increasing its vertical spread. Depending on the background flow that will affect which parts of a cloud get spread to people nearby. (Image and research credit: N. Catalán et al.; via Physics World)

#aerosols #biology #coughing #COVID19 #diseaseTransmission #droplets #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #physics #science #sneezing #turbulence

By the by, if you use your dishwasher to clean glass jars and bottles before putting them in the recycling, make sure to rinse out any spicy stuff as well as you can beforehand.

If you don’t do that, you’ll end up with a dishwasher that’s basically full of CS gas, at least if your spouse doesn’t know this and then puts in a jar with some jerk sauce left in it.

On the upside, now she’s not a big fan of the cops tear gassing protestors.

#ByAnyMeansNecessary
#Coughing
#ChemicalWeapons
#HomeTips