Subj : Re: Being Full
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Mon Nov 04 2019 20:30:04

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 29-Oct-2019 09:16 <=-

 BM> Woke up to just under a quarter-inch of snow!  Not the earliest
 BM> recorded snowfall but definitely towards the the top of that list.  And
 BM> they're talking the possibility of two to three inches on Halloween!

Which as it turned out, you did get... we only had rain, and then high
winds Thursday night into Friday afternoon...
 
 BM>> Yet for a very minute percentage a sniffle could be life-threatening.
 NB>> Yup, particularly those with a very compromised immune system, or
 NB>> very susceptible to severe respiratory illness... One of those I used
 NB>> to care for had COPD... if she caught a cold, chances were it would
 NB>> go to pneumonia in no time flat... at the first signs of the latter,
 NB>> I was on the phone with the doctor's office to call in a script for
 NB>> antibiotics... if we caught it in time, we could avoid that trip to
 NB>> the ER...  :)
 BM> Yes....  Sort of reminded me of the handicapped vehicle parking thread
 BM> we had a little while ago.  Maybe the person looks healthy; looks can
 BM> be deceiving.  Same for "oh it's just a runny nose": for most it's
 BM> carry an extra Kleenex, for a few it's doctor time.  As always, no one
 BM> rule or consideration for everyone.

Exactly... not always self-evident... but one does need to know what the
situation is for one's self and for those they care for.... :)

 NB>> ... Gee! Slow day on the nets ... only 1,100 messages to read!
 BM> I had 100% of the messages in this packet!

As did I, for this echo, anyway...  ;)

ttyl        neb

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