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Speaker 2: Now I'm going to change topics here. We talked for
Speaker 2: three hours about the terrorism attacks in New Orleans and
Speaker 2: it's one of those subjects that, hey, doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 2: But I want to go to a subject which hopefully
Speaker 2: some of us can share some information which might actually
Speaker 2: be helpful to one another. Shortly before I left on
Speaker 2: vacation in mid December, my last show was on December twentieth.
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Speaker 2: are some quick thirty second commercials which basically you got
Speaker 2: to listen to, but just get through it and you'll
Speaker 2: listen to the hour, the substance of the hour in
Speaker 2: its entirety. So when I was wrapping up my last
Speaker 2: week in December, my last work week in December, which
Speaker 2: was the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden I came down with this really horrific lousy
Speaker 2: It was kind of a head cold chess cold, and
Speaker 2: it got worse, and it stayed worse for a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. I still haven't shaken it. And if any
Speaker 2: of you are out there and have suffered the symptoms
Speaker 2: that I'm about to describe, I would love to hear
Speaker 2: from you for a couple of reasons. One, misery loves company,
Speaker 2: and there are probably a lot of people in our
Speaker 2: audience right now who are sitting at home and are
Speaker 2: going through the same malaise. And it's no fun. It's
Speaker 2: absolutely no fun. You get head congestion, you get a
Speaker 2: horrific cough that it's impossible to get rid of, and
Speaker 2: it's impossible to avoid. I mean, you literally feel like
Speaker 2: you're gonna cough up along and at the same time
Speaker 2: you cough and you can feel it in your chest
Speaker 2: and it's miserable. But guess what it doesn't provide. The
Speaker 2: coughing doesn't provide any relief. So I was in in
Speaker 2: really a lot of discomfort, and talk with my doctor explained,
Speaker 2: and they gave me. They gave me what was called
Speaker 2: the Z pack, which, to be r honest with you,
Speaker 2: didn't do much for me. Maybe it forestalled it from
Speaker 2: getting worse, but it didn't seem to turn the page.
Speaker 2: I remember when I did contract COVID a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago. I got Paslova, which worked marvelously, I mean,
Speaker 2: just was great. The Z pack, which I don't know
Speaker 2: if I've had a Z pack before. You there are
Speaker 2: six pills. At a Z pack. You take two immediately,
Speaker 2: and then you take one for each of the following
Speaker 2: four days. So it's a five day treatment of six
Speaker 2: pills too. On day one, one for the other of
Speaker 2: the other five days, Day two, day three, Day four,
Speaker 2: Day five. I said, look, I could feel a lot
Speaker 2: of easing in my chest. The doctor sent me to
Speaker 2: get an X ray, which I got and it came
Speaker 2: back negative. I also tested myself for COVID twice, that's
Speaker 2: how bad I felt, and came back negative both times
Speaker 2: on Tuesday and on Friday. And this was my last
Speaker 2: week of work. I actually remember I called in sick
Speaker 2: on Wednesday. I didn't want to, but I literally slept
Speaker 2: sixteen hours that day, which I think was really helpful.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if it was bronchitis. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was up a respiratory infection, or if
Speaker 2: there's a difference between that but I would love to
Speaker 2: just talk to some of you who have gone through
Speaker 2: the similar symptoms, and I'd love to know how long
Speaker 2: it takes for whatever this is to clear, because even
Speaker 2: now I felt tonight had to cough a few times,
Speaker 2: and I'm able to control all the coughs, but for
Speaker 2: several days I couldn't. I mean, you had to cough
Speaker 2: and you felt, oh, this is going to be great,
Speaker 2: this is what's going to end. The congestion didn't work.
Speaker 2: And I'd love to hear from any of you in
Speaker 2: New England, if this is a New England problem, or
Speaker 2: if it's all over the country. So I'm opening up
Speaker 2: the phone lines. This is an opportunity for all of
Speaker 2: us to help one another. That's what my purpose of
Speaker 2: this hour is. If you're sitting at home and you've
Speaker 2: been dealing with this for a couple of weeks, or
Speaker 2: you're just dealing with it and you feel you're never
Speaker 2: going to get rid of it, or if you're dealing
Speaker 2: it for a longer period of time, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. I've talked to enough friends of mine who
Speaker 2: tell me that they've been dealing with similar symptoms. No
Speaker 2: one has been able to definatively tell me what it is,
Speaker 2: including my own doctor, who essentially said, could be bronchitis.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's upper respiratory. I don't know. I still don't know.
Speaker 2: I would love to hear from someone who has gotten
Speaker 2: a definitive diagnosis. I know I feel a lot better
Speaker 2: tonight than I did two weeks ago, because two weeks
Speaker 2: ago was the night that I called in sick, which
Speaker 2: I haven't done I think in at least five or
Speaker 2: six years. I have pretty healthy guy, but this one
Speaker 2: knocked me on my butt. Six one seven, two, five
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. Let's share the misery. Misery Loves Company
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two five four ten thirty. Both the
Speaker 2: lines at six one seven, nine three one ten thirty
Speaker 2: have filled up, so don't waste your time calling those
Speaker 2: lines six one seven, two, five four to ten thirty,
Speaker 2: and don't talk to my producer and tell me what
Speaker 2: the symptoms are. I want to hear from you on air, Dan,
Speaker 2: don't tie people up here. If they if they want
Speaker 2: to complain to you about it, have them call their
Speaker 2: own doctor. I want to hear what they've done about
Speaker 2: it and how they've solved. People have given me some
Speaker 2: of the home remedies. Oh, hot Toddie, hot tea. That's fine,
Speaker 2: and if something's helped, you'd love to hear about that.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven thirty back on night's side, How do
Speaker 2: we get rid of this? And why is it getting us?
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, I had all my shots,
Speaker 2: my flu shot in September, my COVID shot in October,
Speaker 2: my RSV shot a year ago. I was pumped up
Speaker 2: with everything I'm supposed to get. Now, maybe you're going
Speaker 2: to tell me if I didn't get the shots, it
Speaker 2: would have been worse. I'll buy that, But I want
Speaker 2: to know have you suffered? Have you dealt with this?
Speaker 2: Because it's no fun. Only lines open, six one, seven
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Speaker 2: You know, while I was on vacation, I was figuring
Speaker 2: that I'd come across some local news story about this
Speaker 2: problem that we've been dealing with. Let me tell you
Speaker 2: even right now, I just you know, I sort of
Speaker 2: caught myself. I almost coughed.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from you. What did you have this,
Speaker 2: but can you tell me? And if you're a doctor
Speaker 2: out there, love to hear from you, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Joe and Arlington. Joe welcome first on Nightside this hour.
Speaker 2: How are you Joe?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe from Arlington.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Dan.
Speaker 3: I was just calling because I have somewhat have had
Speaker 3: a similar call for the last two weeks. It sounds
Speaker 3: like mine is a little bit more in the head
Speaker 3: and less in the chest. But I've been feeling the
Speaker 3: same way. I've come very close to actually going into
Speaker 3: my doctor and saying, when am I going to get
Speaker 3: rid of this thing? But it does seem to be
Speaker 3: easing a little bit. Mike cough wasn't as severe as yours, though.
Speaker 2: So I had this cough which I would cough, and
Speaker 2: I was making noises with my cough, you know, which
Speaker 2: which scared the hell out of me. I mean to
Speaker 2: be like, it could be coughing and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to replicate it, but I was like I was here
Speaker 2: and stuff, uh, and and I thought that there was
Speaker 2: one night where I mean dead, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: from deep inside my chest, I hear what sounds like
Speaker 2: this is gonna sound weird to you. It sounded like
Speaker 2: a voice, which is.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: I'm very serious. I'm very serious, and I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 2: is this my soul talking to me? I'm thinking, what
Speaker 2: the hell was going on? It was?
Speaker 4: You know, you have to blow.
Speaker 3: I'm blowing my nose a lot. I know whether that's
Speaker 3: with you?
Speaker 4: Also, Yeah, a lot a lot of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was head cold. Some people mentioned to me
Speaker 2: the neural virus not a neural virus. I think of
Speaker 2: neural virus as being, you know, a digestive issue, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, not a not a head problem where you
Speaker 2: put it like that, you know, No, it's it was
Speaker 2: in my head and in my chest sounds.
Speaker 3: It sounds sounds like you're like me. Also because I've
Speaker 3: I've had got my RSB shot, my pneumonia shot. My
Speaker 3: Tobo truck is on the senior, so it sounds like
Speaker 3: you've done.
Speaker 2: The shot, all that stuff. I should have mentioned I
Speaker 2: had a pneumonia shot. I had all of that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: When I went for the uh the chest X ray,
Speaker 2: it was really interesting. It was a place that was
Speaker 2: fairly close to where I live, and it was so
Speaker 2: crowded you couldn't find They had a big parking a
Speaker 2: couple of parking areas. You couldn't find a parking space,
Speaker 2: so they literally valley your and there was no charge. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean, I tipped the guy, you know, five bucks
Speaker 2: when he brought the car back. But I thought to myself,
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a medical building and there's no
Speaker 2: parking here. I mean, but there was plenty of parking spaces,
Speaker 2: but they were all filled up, right, And I.
Speaker 4: Went ends.
Speaker 2: Two seconds, you know, in and out, take your shirt off,
Speaker 2: stand in the front of kimbo, turn B. Done. And
Speaker 2: then my doctor did call me back and say, well,
Speaker 2: the X ray look fine? Right?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 3: It was, I mean generally speaking, generally speaking, is I
Speaker 3: mean just hearing the scuttle butt around here out in
Speaker 3: Arlington Metro West, there has been views that for the
Speaker 3: last few weeks, some sort of virus and cold you know,
Speaker 3: syndrome is really going around with a lot of people.
Speaker 3: If it's sick and with similar sounding type coals, I think, you.
Speaker 2: Know, well, I should I should label this segment what's
Speaker 2: up dog, meaning tell us if you're a doctor out
Speaker 2: there and you really know what that was going on,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, this is the worst that
Speaker 2: I have felt in a long time, and I'm pretty healthy,
Speaker 2: to be really.
Speaker 4: Honest with you.
Speaker 2: And by the way, yeah, I hadn't. I always think back,
Speaker 2: like forty eight hours when I start to feel something
Speaker 2: coming on, like who did where was I doing? Forty
Speaker 2: eight hours ago? And forty eight hours prior to that,
Speaker 2: Monday was well Friday, and I stayed home all day Friday,
Speaker 2: so I had no contact with anyone in the outside world,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, how did I get something if i'd know?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, I wish your best of luck, Joe. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you calling in and sharing misery with me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, one last question, did an neither you know
Speaker 3: any of this stuff like musinex or cough pills help
Speaker 3: with you? Were you taking any of that stuff?
Speaker 2: Well? You know, it's funny you mentioned musinek. I had
Speaker 2: never taken musin x before. I think it helped, right,
Speaker 2: but maybe I should have got to it earlier. I'm
Speaker 2: still actually took one of the Musinek pills this morning, musedek.
Speaker 2: Is I supposed to dry you up?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Isn't that what that does?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: I think? So? Am I right or wrong? I see
Speaker 2: the ads on TV which I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it is supposed to draw you up too. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: it sounds like what you needed was something to break
Speaker 3: up all that congestion down your chest. I hope one
Speaker 3: is one of these doctors who are in your listening
Speaker 3: audience call in and give us some tips on this thing.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: Well they prescribed the z pack, but the z pac
Speaker 2: didn't do much, uh huh in truth, now, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: it was too late. You know, people say if you
Speaker 2: get COVID you got to get to the Paxlova within
Speaker 2: a few days, a couple of days, that if you
Speaker 2: go five days, it's going to not going to help
Speaker 2: you out. So I don't know. Joe, appreciate your call.
Speaker 2: Hope you feel better. Happy New Year, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Happy New Year to you too. Hope you feel better also.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks very much. Gotta go to Charlestown. I
Speaker 2: have never heard of the name Blight, but but it
Speaker 2: says Blake from Charlestown. Hi, Blight.
Speaker 4: How are you? YEA I talked to you?
Speaker 3: To you?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that is that a norm the gear here or
Speaker 2: a nom to plume or is that your actual first name?
Speaker 2: Blight Dwight? Yes, oh it's Dwight. Oh no, but my
Speaker 2: guys got up on the bard here Blight like you know,
Speaker 2: Blake b Ella. It's Dwight, of course, Dwight. Okay, Dwight, Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: I talked one before a while back.
Speaker 2: All right, so have you been dealing with any of
Speaker 2: these these problems.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm a veteran. I had all my shots, and uh,
Speaker 4: I thought it cut COVID. But we have a mask
Speaker 4: all the time. But I have a long comfortable for
Speaker 4: a while now it's just kind of subsider now.
Speaker 2: So wait, so you you did test positive for COVID.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I just have a bad cough chess car.
Speaker 4: I thought I have bad chess.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I have. But I tested for COVID
Speaker 2: and I came back negative twice. So I know, by
Speaker 2: the way, separated by about four days, because sometimes you
Speaker 2: can catch text negative and then you're positive.
Speaker 4: Right, all right, So you know, take a little NIQ
Speaker 4: will now and a.
Speaker 2: H well, you know, I took some. I took some
Speaker 2: of that on Tuesday night and it knocked me on
Speaker 2: my butt. I had like this, Uh, I was half
Speaker 2: asleep in my last hour on Tuesday night, I'm telling
Speaker 2: that I was. I I'm not a niquil guy. I
Speaker 2: don't take niq will, but let me die. It was
Speaker 2: powerful stuff. I didn't realize that niquill couldn't literally knock
Speaker 2: you out.
Speaker 4: We wait sleepy for Wednesday, but it will cut the
Speaker 4: cough a lot at night. It's great at night. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I went and I got, you know, your typical
Speaker 2: over the counter medication cough medicine that you know said
Speaker 2: it was an expectorant, which obviously means is going to
Speaker 2: help you clear your your your your lungs or whatever,
Speaker 2: clear your throat. Didn't do much for me. When did
Speaker 2: you when did this? When did this hit you? Dwight?
Speaker 4: Well four weeks now?
Speaker 2: Whoa, So you've been you had hung with it for
Speaker 2: four weeks?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Have you seen a doctor yet or no? Did you
Speaker 2: did you go to your doctor?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I told you I did. Yeah. He suggested we'll
Speaker 4: take over the cow stuff.
Speaker 2: He said, I've been able to go to work. Are
Speaker 2: you working?
Speaker 4: And no? Oh no no not I let me tire
Speaker 4: it a.
Speaker 2: Are you really how long were you in the military
Speaker 2: for Thank you for your service.
Speaker 4: What did you do all those yeah? Quater Master really
Speaker 4: never get it. Yeah maybe yes.
Speaker 2: Good for you, sir, Good for you. Well, thank you
Speaker 2: for your service, and thanks for calling. Have you called before?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I did? Yeah, Well, back a few years ago I
Speaker 4: talked to I just thought you might be remember me.
Speaker 4: Well the name? Do you don't get that? To whatself?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I wasn't sure, but do me a favorite. Don't
Speaker 2: wait a few years to call back. I might not
Speaker 2: be here a few years from now. Okay, okaypy Hey,
Speaker 2: Happy new Year, Dwight. We'll talk so okay too. Thanks man,
Speaker 2: doctor you let me go to Barbara up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: Is next?
Speaker 9: Hi?
Speaker 2: Barbara? How are you tonight?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 10: Then a call to tell you that I have had
Speaker 10: the same thing as you. I started the Sunday before
Speaker 10: Christmas and today I am still suffering.
Speaker 2: You know something, So you would have started on the
Speaker 2: twenty second right right? Okay, Well I was, and.
Speaker 1: I have had nurses.
Speaker 10: I have had nurses look at me, and I have
Speaker 10: no chest congestion. My head feels like it weighs body pounds.
Speaker 2: So wait a second, what about a cough deep cough?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, the cough is there, and I have been
Speaker 10: taken usinis and how is that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to sound like a total dummy here, But
Speaker 2: what is that supposed to do? I see the ads
Speaker 2: on TV, the little character Oh.
Speaker 10: No, no, oh, you know, well I thought it was
Speaker 10: supposed to break up any sinus ingestions. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 10: what somebody said to me. Oh, I think you have
Speaker 10: sinus something or other.
Speaker 2: Sinusitis or something like that.
Speaker 10: But when I checked, I'm at home being taken care
Speaker 10: of by visiting nurses for another problem. And when they
Speaker 10: come and they hear me and they're like, Barber, what
Speaker 10: is going on? So they listened to my chest, they
Speaker 10: do my vital signs. I don't have a temperature, but
Speaker 10: I have this cough. In a minute, I lay down
Speaker 10: in bed. I sat coughing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the cough it's almost you just can't stop.
Speaker 10: And it's no, I can't. I have to sit up
Speaker 10: and have a drink of water and wait a few
Speaker 10: minutes and then lay down again. Yeah, it has been
Speaker 10: a terrible ride.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: My doctor prescribed a small amount of codine, like five
Speaker 2: millilters of codeine before you go to bed. I think
Speaker 2: that eventually helped me. I don't know if you think so. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 10: Well, my nurse is coming tomorrow and if I still
Speaker 10: have this cough, she said she was going to get
Speaker 10: in touch with the doctor and get me some cough
Speaker 10: medicine or something. But I take so many medications right
Speaker 10: now for another problem that I don't want to take
Speaker 10: too many medications.
Speaker 2: I know the issue. Did the Musenex help?
Speaker 10: You know, it's helped me during the day, and then
Speaker 10: you know, and then but my I don't have much
Speaker 10: of an appetite though I am eating, but my case,
Speaker 10: my case seems to be off. But that's been off
Speaker 10: for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I I can identify with that as well.
Speaker 2: I again, I got it a little bit before you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know any no one else
Speaker 2: in my family. I did not infect anyone in my family.
Speaker 2: We have family family Christmas.
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, we had a family reunion and my son in
Speaker 10: law got it, and my grandson, who was four years
Speaker 10: old going on five, he got it and it was
Speaker 10: just but the others my husband hasn't he got a cold,
Speaker 10: but he hasn't got what I got.
Speaker 2: Did Do you think your son and your grandson contracted
Speaker 2: it from you or did they have.
Speaker 10: It previously, No, they had they already have at it.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 2: Well that that at least makes your conscience feel a little.
Speaker 10: Better, right, Ye, my son in law came here from
Speaker 10: San Francisco with my daughter for the holiday and ends
Speaker 10: up being sick and in bed.
Speaker 2: Well, you, you and I share we both have daughters
Speaker 2: who live in San Francisco and their son.
Speaker 10: We do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hop about that all right? Hey, Barbara, I hope
Speaker 2: you feel much better, and I hope you feel much
Speaker 2: better quickly. I really, I really.
Speaker 10: Call you in a couple of I'll call you next
Speaker 10: week and let you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you. I think you're a little
Speaker 2: bit behind me, so you're not out of the woods yet.
Speaker 2: I think I'm closer to recovery than you are. But
Speaker 2: you know what, wouldn't surprise me if I'm still dealing
Speaker 2: with this and you call me and tell me you're
Speaker 2: you're one hundred percent better. So I hope you are.
Speaker 6: I hope So I hope.
Speaker 2: Thanks Barbara, Thanks, Happy New Year to you. Well take
Speaker 2: a quick break six one seven, two five four ten
Speaker 2: thirty one line there six one seven nine three thirty
Speaker 2: one line there feel free? Uh? And again I'm hoping
Speaker 2: to here, maybe from some medical professionals who can help
Speaker 2: us out here. This is like a mystery illness, mystery
Speaker 2: medical illness. I don't know if it's categorized as bronchitis
Speaker 2: or upper respiratory infection, but it's nasty. We'll be back
Speaker 2: on nights Out after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night's Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite Texas callers, in is in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 2: In has this mystery medical illness made us all the
Speaker 2: way all the way to Texas.
Speaker 7: Yes, but I had it. I have some good information
Speaker 7: for you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm looking for it. Help me out.
Speaker 7: You're you're almost in the clear. First off, a good
Speaker 7: two weeks I had it, and I but I had
Speaker 7: it a good sixty eight weeks ago. And uh, what's important.
Speaker 7: What's important is to keep that cough down because that
Speaker 7: that's wheezing, those crazy sounds out of your lungs and
Speaker 7: your lungs, that's the wheezing. And that's like, uh, the
Speaker 7: bronchio spasms and or this is what I believe, I'm
Speaker 7: not a doctor, and or inflammation and the cough that
Speaker 7: gotta roll awful dry, gotta row cough is awful, and
Speaker 7: the head cold. Yes, and vitamin C extra vitamin C.
Speaker 7: There's a great powder called Emergency and it's a thousand
Speaker 7: milligrams of it's over the counter at CBS or wherever
Speaker 7: you go. Yeah, it's called E M E R dash C.
Speaker 7: It comes in yummy mercy.
Speaker 2: Okay, got it?
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, it's a powder and it's dissolved in water
Speaker 7: and so that. And then let me.
Speaker 2: Ask a dumb question. Can you mix it an orange juice?
Speaker 7: You can mix it however you want, all right, yeah,
Speaker 7: however you want. But it is flavored. It has some
Speaker 7: sugar and that does help.
Speaker 2: And what did you did you actually go to your.
Speaker 7: Doctor in you know, I believe I did. I'm not sure,
Speaker 7: but I didn't get the next ray.
Speaker 2: Did you ever get a.
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: Did they ever diagnosis and say it.
Speaker 7: Was well, I didn't. I don't think I did go
Speaker 7: the doctor. I did the two COVID tests, which were
Speaker 7: clear negative no COVID A few days apart. I mean
Speaker 7: I can ditto everything you said that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I just said I checked myself on Monday.
Speaker 2: Oh no, excuse me. I checked myself on Tuesday and
Speaker 2: then on Friday. And the reason I checked myself. On Friday,
Speaker 2: was the weekend, can't was approached, and we went to
Speaker 2: a Christmas Saturday night and I didn't want to bring
Speaker 2: it there. And and by the way, my daughter, who
Speaker 2: was home from San Francisco, she said, if you give
Speaker 2: me this, I'm going to really be upset. I said, please,
Speaker 2: this is not a gift. This is not a Christmas gift.
Speaker 2: And she has not.
Speaker 7: I can emphasize talking about the guilt trip.
Speaker 2: It was the ultimate kuilt trip.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: I think I know your voice well enough to know
Speaker 2: that you're not a.
Speaker 7: No no Dan, Dan, is we spend like this. I
Speaker 7: was born with this crazy voice.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's a pretty set if you want to
Speaker 2: know the truth. And I hate to say this, but
Speaker 2: it's a very sexy sort of voice. But but but
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's kind of like you see female voice.
Speaker 2: So I please, I'm not insulting you. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: that I did not recall its sully as deep as
Speaker 2: it as it is, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: Oh, actually, well right, Well, usually when i've spoken to
Speaker 7: you before, maybe later at night and I'm half tired,
Speaker 7: you know, so I might be a little more peltry,
Speaker 7: but this is a voice sultry.
Speaker 2: Ye seltry and you get better. Okay, you too, And
Speaker 2: I want you to check in next week and tell
Speaker 2: me that you're all that you're all all taken care of.
Speaker 7: Fair enough, Okay, fair enough. That's good evening. Hope you
Speaker 7: gel better.
Speaker 2: I say, not back at you. Happy New Year. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks so much, let's keep rolling it. Going to go
Speaker 2: to Mike in Pembroke, Massachusetts. Mike, you were next on
Speaker 2: night side. Hello, Hello, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 8: Yes? I wanted to tell you my neighbor had COPD.
Speaker 8: That's a composive obsessive pulmonary disorder and it makes you
Speaker 8: cough all the time. And she took something that I
Speaker 8: think was called el trix e lt rix. I think
Speaker 8: it was prescribed by her doctor. I don't know if
Speaker 8: I have the right name, but it's something like that.
Speaker 8: And it's too late for me to call her and
Speaker 8: find out.
Speaker 2: Oh no, don't no, don't do that. That's for sure.
Speaker 8: So it's COPD. Is this composive attempt to cough?
Speaker 2: Well, isn't so much that it was I had to cough.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like I wanted to cough. It was just
Speaker 2: all of us sudden. You had this urge to cough,
Speaker 2: and you were hoping that you could bring some stuff
Speaker 2: up and get rid of it, and I know nothing
Speaker 2: was coming up. Well, I don't want to get I
Speaker 2: don't want to get a descriptive.
Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, some of the callers that
Speaker 8: I was listening to that called you, they can hardly
Speaker 8: talk because they're choking up on coughing all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Ian sounded a little a little uncomfortable, and
Speaker 2: Dwight did as well. But okay, I'm gonna check so OPD.
Speaker 8: I still think you have that and the other thing
Speaker 8: I wanted and and talk to your doctor about Eltrix.
Speaker 2: All right, that's a good suggestion that preach.
Speaker 8: Other thing I wanted to tell you, and I know
Speaker 8: you're not gonna like this, but my wife and I
Speaker 8: never took any of the COVID shots because they can
Speaker 8: create all kind of complications. And you not the shot,
Speaker 8: but you took several boosters. Yeah, but really guilding the lily.
Speaker 2: But let me just tell you this, Okay, you have
Speaker 2: a right to your medical care, and I have a
Speaker 2: right to my medical care. And I'm never going to
Speaker 2: criticize you for not taking a shot.
Speaker 8: No, I'm not saying you should criticize a question me.
Speaker 8: I'm just telling you that I know a lot of
Speaker 8: people that have had very bad side effects.
Speaker 2: I'm probably one of the The thing that's interesting about this, Mike,
Speaker 2: is that I'm one of the healthiest people, god willing
Speaker 2: that you'd ever know. You've let me tell you for
Speaker 2: a long time. How many Knights have I called in
Speaker 2: sick in the last five years? Mike?
Speaker 8: How many?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 2: How many Knights have I called in sick? I do
Speaker 2: this show tonight?
Speaker 8: Okay, so let me just finish a little bit more.
Speaker 8: I have a very good mail carrier lady and her
Speaker 8: husband got one COVID shot, and excuse me, he ended
Speaker 8: up having a heart attack.
Speaker 2: Again, Mike got I really don't want to. I'm not
Speaker 2: interested in talking about that tonight, but I appreciate your
Speaker 2: suggestions on the eltrics.
Speaker 8: We'll talk again because you took all these COVID shots.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Okay, again, there are people out
Speaker 2: there who you can't reason with, and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to reason with anybody on this at all. Rick and Bill,
Speaker 2: Rick or Rick get you in here before the break
Speaker 2: the right head.
Speaker 9: Rick happy, you know you're Dan.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks Rick back at you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you, thank you. You know in your case,
Speaker 9: I'm a hypochondriac. I'm not a doctor, so I have information. Uh,
Speaker 9: I think it the Z pack. You must have had
Speaker 9: something viral, because Z pack is for bacterial self Z
Speaker 9: packs are effective as anything. And if it didn't work
Speaker 9: on you, then maybe or maybe the fact that you're
Speaker 9: getting better it really did work and you might not
Speaker 9: think of that. But uh, you know, last year, I
Speaker 9: had something. I took a couple of COVID tests. People
Speaker 9: said they saw that I couldn't see the red the
Speaker 9: second you know, the second line.
Speaker 8: But I have.
Speaker 9: Something that you had and ruined everything. In fact, I
Speaker 9: had singing gigs, I wanted a hotel. I had to
Speaker 9: cancel that. I called it COVID because well, I guess,
Speaker 9: I guess. When I went to the hospital they said
Speaker 9: I had it. I can't even remember it as a fog,
Speaker 9: but I had something like that last year, and it
Speaker 9: took took a while to get over. It took about
Speaker 9: two weeks, yeah, about two weeks, and.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm at the two week month. Actually a little
Speaker 2: more than two weeks. Right now. I will tell you this.
Speaker 2: I have had COVID that I know of, once in
Speaker 2: November of twenty twenty two, and I thought I had
Speaker 2: it tested myself, and my daughter said to me, Dad,
Speaker 2: get a prescription for Paxlovid. I got Paxlovid, and I'm
Speaker 2: telling you my COVID was nothing more than sniffles. And
Speaker 2: I tested for COVID every day for five days. It
Speaker 2: came back positive every day, and after the fifth day
Speaker 2: it was gone. And the worst. It was the easiest
Speaker 2: case that anybody in history had COVID. So when my
Speaker 2: doc suggested a z pack, I thought, oh, it's going
Speaker 2: to work like Paxlovid. Paxlovid was great. Z pack didn't
Speaker 2: do a thing for me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I've heard it was that considered one of
Speaker 9: the non remedies. It wasn't the COVID show what what
Speaker 9: were they called the things that you could take that
Speaker 9: would would help shorten the life of COVID. But it
Speaker 9: wasn't that one of the it was, well, it was called,
Speaker 9: but it was called one of the I forget whether
Speaker 9: it was a group of drugs. Pax Slovid was one
Speaker 9: of a few of them in this category, but I'm
Speaker 9: glad it worked for you. It's it's a good thing
Speaker 9: to consider. I guess I had COVID last year, but
Speaker 9: but I couldn't see the line. I took the test
Speaker 9: and there was no line. But I just remember going
Speaker 9: through that. Recently, I'm going through nosebleeds that are bad
Speaker 9: and I get them. In fact, I just put ice
Speaker 9: on my nose, but I got saline that I put
Speaker 9: in my nose. I got a probably Netty bottle a
Speaker 9: little less or make make the saline solution a little
Speaker 9: stronger on my Netty bottle. But it could also because
Speaker 9: of the lack of snow. People are saying, because I talked,
Speaker 9: you know, the lack of snow, there's stuff out there,
Speaker 9: out out in the end, you know, outside environment.
Speaker 2: And uh, well, the funny thing about it was when
Speaker 2: when I contracted this, I was right around the time
Speaker 2: where we had the snow before Christmas.
Speaker 9: Ironically, Okay, it's it's so there are so many things,
Speaker 9: and it's so I'm still.
Speaker 2: Open to hear from some doctor's going to be able
Speaker 2: to say to me exactly what it was. Because my
Speaker 2: own doctor was a really greod doctor. Uh he basically said,
Speaker 2: I think you know, kind of eliminating everything. I think
Speaker 2: he had bronchitis, but boy it came. Oh uh, it was.
Speaker 2: It was tough. It was a rough few days. Rick,
Speaker 2: I gotta let you wrong because my brain.
Speaker 9: We'll talk soon, Okay, Zinc and see. I was just
Speaker 9: gonna say, zinc and see and Garlic, I have a
Speaker 9: good one.
Speaker 2: I take zink every day, and I take Vitamin C
Speaker 2: every day, and I take a multi vitamin on top
Speaker 2: of the vitamin.
Speaker 9: I think it's just the two weeks and maybe would
Speaker 9: take a month from most people, and you're just in
Speaker 9: better shape, let's hope.
Speaker 2: So thanks, Rick, appreciating good night six two ten thirty one.
Speaker 2: Line there, six one seven nine three one ten thirty one.
Speaker 2: Line there, Bob in Newton Falls, Ohio. You are next.
Speaker 2: Then I will talk with Bob and Hingham, and I'll
Speaker 2: talk with Terry on Cape Cod and I got room
Speaker 2: for two more calls. Six one seven, two four ten
Speaker 2: thirty six one seven, nine ten thirty back on Night's
Speaker 2: side after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Night six Studios on w BZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got full lines. We're going to try to
Speaker 2: move everybody a little bit more quickly. We're going to
Speaker 2: start with Bob and Newton Falls, Ohio. Didn't realize it
Speaker 2: was the Newton Falls in Ohio. Bob, how are you tonight?
Speaker 5: Yes, there is dan uh similar problems with which you have.
Speaker 5: I had here in Ohio probably about a month ago.
Speaker 4: How long did it?
Speaker 2: How long did it last?
Speaker 5: Probably over a month lead five weeks. My mother had it.
Speaker 5: She's eighty eight and I'm sixty five, and I was
Speaker 5: concerned because I'd just been dealing with lymphoma and my
Speaker 5: immune system is back not to normal. That I was
Speaker 5: concerned about, you know, being weak in my immune system
Speaker 5: with lymphoma and the treatment that my doctor when I
Speaker 5: come down with what you're describing, prescribed to z pack
Speaker 5: and it didn't even touch it. My mother is the
Speaker 5: same way, but he did, and then I apologize. There's
Speaker 5: a thing that they call chemo brain. It affected my
Speaker 5: memory going through the treatments. I don't remember the name
Speaker 5: of the antibiotic happened to z pack. My family position
Speaker 5: put me on. But he also put me on which
Speaker 5: I was a steroid and I had COVID back in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, my brother passed away from it. But
Speaker 5: I had chest chest congestion, coughing stuff up, so he
Speaker 5: put me on a steroid. Dan, I wish I could
Speaker 5: remember what Aaron I bought if he put me at.
Speaker 2: A problem, A lot of problem. Hey, Bob, you've never
Speaker 2: called my show before. I want you to do me
Speaker 2: a favorite and become a more regular caller. Okay, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for listening.
Speaker 4: Well, thank Dan.
Speaker 5: I was a many many years ago. I was a
Speaker 5: big b Z Boston radio listener. Larry Glick, Bob Rowley mcmire. Sure,
Speaker 5: and I know Larry passed. I can I ask Bob
Speaker 5: Brawley is he still with this.
Speaker 2: Bob passed away within the last couple of years?
Speaker 5: Did he? I just wondered because I had a quick
Speaker 5: nick T shirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, all right, you do me a favor. You
Speaker 2: got to call early. I can give you some more time,
Speaker 2: but I got a whole bunch of folks who want
Speaker 2: to give just a minute.
Speaker 4: Or so too. Okay, that's best.
Speaker 5: Worshious to you.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year too, Bob, call it call again. I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dan, Thank you much.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Bob and hanging Bob, you got
Speaker 2: to help me out here go ahead, be quick for me, please,
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 6: My wife had the same thing your had. She ended
Speaker 6: up in the hospital. Well she's out of the hospital today.
Speaker 6: But she started that Christmas with headaches. Then she had
Speaker 6: then on Thursday last week, that cough. It almost sounded haunted.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 6: I never heard a cough like that.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, but then she couldn't breathe because the cough
Speaker 6: was controlling it. Yeah, So I said, okay, that's it.
Speaker 6: That's it, We're going to hospital. We went to the hospital.
Speaker 6: They admitted her. I told you, she got out today.
Speaker 6: She had a virus in her lung. They took X rays,
Speaker 6: they did it. She was in South Shia Hospital for
Speaker 6: four day Fridays, whatever it was. But the cough didn't
Speaker 6: stop for two days, and they were hitting them with antibiotics,
Speaker 6: the heavy stuff and a little bit, the little one.
Speaker 6: They pushed him into her arm, but then they put
Speaker 6: the big drip in there and still took her over
Speaker 6: two days to stop that crazy cough.
Speaker 5: Oh God, and she.
Speaker 2: Will hopefully, I'm not going to get you have told
Speaker 2: people very clearly to take this stuff seriously.
Speaker 6: Oh take I'm telling you to take it serious because
Speaker 6: it doesn't get better on itself. You might stall it,
Speaker 6: but it's coming back. That's what the doctor told me.
Speaker 1: In my wife, you stalled the diagnosed.
Speaker 2: Was there a diagnosis or bronchitis or roper respiratory? What
Speaker 2: was the diagnosis?
Speaker 6: Well, but she didn't take care of it. So what
Speaker 6: happened was she got some kind of virus in her
Speaker 6: in her lungs and she ended up with double low.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Bob, thank you. That's a word of caution.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: You have to go to the doctor. If you can't
Speaker 6: give it, it doesn't go away.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Bob. We'll talk from the new year.
Speaker 2: Cheryl is in situate. Cheryl, you're next one. Nice, I
Speaker 2: go right ahead.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I just want to make it quick. I'm coming
Speaker 11: out of work. I work at the Brigham Woman's falk
Speaker 11: in the hospital and the emergency room. It's going around
Speaker 11: all kinds of different strings. It's back to here, bacteria, viral.
Speaker 11: What you're doing seems right. Just take care of yourself.
Speaker 11: I know sometimes it's good to get advice from other people,
Speaker 11: but do all the right things. You seem like you are,
Speaker 11: and I want to wish you were happy. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 11: keep it simple because I know you have other calls.
Speaker 2: Cheryl, you're the best. Thank you very much. Let's call
Speaker 2: some nights.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I hope you feel.
Speaker 2: That would you? Did you say you're a Falkner?
Speaker 11: I worked at the I work at Brigham Women's Falkner.
Speaker 11: That's why i'm calling your late.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I've been a person. It's a great hospital. Thanks,
Speaker 2: Thanks Cheryl, my good luck. Bybye you too, doctor a
Speaker 2: good night very quickly here Mark and Salem in Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Mark got about maybe thirty seconds for you. What can
Speaker 2: you do with it?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 6: Dan?
Speaker 4: I thought you were on a much needed vacation or
Speaker 4: deserved and then I found it you're sick.
Speaker 1: I think I've got you.
Speaker 2: I was on vacation. I was on vacation, but but
Speaker 2: I happen to be coincidentally sick.
Speaker 8: Oh well that's not not a good combination.
Speaker 4: But no, I get this cough.
Speaker 5: I've had it, like you know, ten days.
Speaker 8: It's not brutal, but it's just like, why isn't this
Speaker 8: thing going away? So it sounds like I don't mind it.
Speaker 1: The same thing I think we do getting worse.
Speaker 2: I think we do, but watch it. You just heard
Speaker 2: what Bob from Hingham had.
Speaker 4: To Yeah, what she just said, right, keep an eye
Speaker 4: on n well and.
Speaker 2: What Cheryl said as well.
Speaker 8: Good luck and happy new Year to you.
Speaker 2: Happy new Year to you, Mark. I appreciate your call
Speaker 2: and we'll get you in longer at another point in time.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Okay, all right, let me get
Speaker 2: Terry in the cave. Terry, I got only about twenty seconds.
Speaker 2: What can you do with it?
Speaker 12: Hi, Dan? I got a couple of suggestions. Get a
Speaker 12: pen out, hand washing your first.
Speaker 2: I do that all the time. What's the second one?
Speaker 12: Put a little pot of water on the stove steam
Speaker 12: and put your head over it quick, ye up. Vapor
Speaker 12: rub on your chest.
Speaker 2: I have a vapor ride. I have a vapor riseer,
Speaker 2: trust me on that. Okay, we're good.
Speaker 12: Yeah, your chest, drink lots of water, chick, and you're gonna.
Speaker 10: I hate to do this to.
Speaker 2: You, but I'm flat out at time. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I love you, Thank you much?
Speaker 2: All right, good night, everybody, damn nice job. Remember Dwight.
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