Well, we spent some quality (?) time with the SIL and her daughter, but boy did the SIL cough a lot. She told us she wasn't contagious and her daughter/our niece confirmed that, but I think she confirmed it thru her mom telling her that she wasn't. The SIL told us it was a nasal infection. Whatever it was, wife and I stuck it out with them while they were here. What is truly funny, but not also, is that Sunday evening, when they left our apartment to go back to the Timeshare, the SIL tried to kiss my wife on the cheek "goodbye". My wife wouldn't let her and was pretty shocked that she even tried. Some people! This morning, Tuesday, my sore throat seems to be getting better. Wife and I looked at it, in bathroom mirror with a flashlight and are pretty satisfied with how it looks. However, I will wait until Wednesday or Thursday, see how I feel/how it looks, before contacting my VA doctor for any type of medication. I may just beat this with the saltwater gargling and Cepacol lozenges. They left yesterday afternoon. Glad they're gone, but did have a good time with them. My wife is still concerned at how much/little her sister is taking care of herself, but that's entirely up to her sister.
My throat is much better now (1/2/25). No longer have to do the saltwater gargling. Anyway, for some reason, dear SIL has been, and is still, thinking more about "death". She is 81 now, which is old, but not THAT old. She told us that she asked her one grandson if he would drive her out here for my wife's birthday on January 27th, but he told her he couldn't...........THANK GOD!! IOW, we don't want her to come then or before our move in June. We just have too many things coming up, including my upcoming prostate biopsy next month and possible treatments. Plus, getting things ready for our move up north (Reno area) this coming June. We do hope that she doesn't find someone who will drive her out here. When she comes to see us in Reno, she will have to fly up.
Glad your throat is better and hope test come out good. I do understand about sick relatives wanting to visit, I just offer them a tent and games over. If it offends them I figure nothing like how offending virus is to us seniors. I ask them why come during flu season, supposed to be here Jan.17th.My granddaughter with the 2 yr old and her husband will be staying at morel in town, daughter, son and other granddaughter will be in a storage building in the yard with electricity. Will visit on opposite ends of the front porch. No huggy, no kissy till I get a hazmat suit.
I was supposed to go to a funeral today but I am sicker than a dog. I don't wish this on anyone. I don't generally get sick but the once every 10 years that I do, I don't go out and share it.
I have been baking myself when not at the barn. Burn out the fever. Hubby is going for marshmallows...
No problem. I NEVER get sick because I am the mother! I think this is hitting hard and fast and then will go away. I laugh when people suggest I take some supplements. My kitchen table is covered with them.
Seems like we can't go to any restaurant here without hearing someone coughing. Allergies, former/current heavy smoker or sick, we just don't know. One guy, when I mentioned about his cough, told us "I use to be a heavy smoker and a bad cough has caught up with me." I can't blame my sore throat entirely on my SIL, but she sure was "coughing up a storm" when she was here last month. My sore throat is much better now, but will still reappear at times.
You actually asked a stranger about his cough??? I would have told you I had TB, but not to worry because it was a mild case. And then I would have coughed in your face.
John, asking a person about their cough isn't rude, but coughing in the face of the person asking is totally rude. And, a darn good way to get kicked out of a restaurant and, possibly, legal action taken against the person who done the coughing in the face. I DO talk to strangers and it wasn't an offensive question and he didn't take it that way. Just too many people go out to restaurants sick and seem not to care. We complained about my wife's sister and her cough. At our age, and yours as well, the immune system isn't nearly as good as it use to be.
If you asked a stranger about his cough because you think he went to a restaurant while sick, it was offensive. What would you have said if he told you he had been fighting a cold for 3 days and was sitting next to you while you ate?