Recent content by FoverM

My advice would be to carefully and thoroughly go through your expenses and calculate how much you think you'll need per year to live like you do now. Then carefully figure out how much you'll be able to withdraw from your investments per year to maintain that level of total income. After doing...

We're mid-50s.

Here's the last update on my wife's breakthrough case (Pfizer in March+April). She's basically back to normal. Taste and smell have returned. I looked back at my posts on this and here's an overview: 07/10 - we assume this was the exposure date 07/13 - very minor symptoms (occasional sneezing)...

My side effects from the vaccine shots were the same: a quarter-sized area around the site that felt bruised. Lasted a day or so. Wife's side effects were different: nothing on the first shot and a little soreness on the second shot. I don't think she's more prone to illness. She did suffer...

Am I the only one who sees this as a bug and not a feature? You have three nozzles for space and three for in an atmosphere. All six will be required to achieve LEO and they'll be alternately underexpanded and overexpanded along the way. I'd much rather see Musk have his (excellent) engineers...

Interesting discussion going on here. I wanted to post an update on my wife and document a few things (someone here might find them useful). She's at, I'd say, around 95% recovered after three weeks since her initial exposure. Saturday 07/10: what we think was her initial exposure to the virus...

I hesitated on writing "congestion" because her nose isn't clogged up or runny. She describes it as "pressure" behind her eyes. She had terrible headaches for a couple of days. I assume this is due to some sort of inflammation and/or coating. How do you lose your sense of smell and/or taste???

Update on our breakthrough case, if anyone's interested. Eight days in and my wife's doing fine but there are two lingering issues: fatigue and lost sense of taste/smell. She takes a nap every day, which is unusual for her. The main thing that's driving her batty is the total loss of taste. I've...

Just received my test result: negative. The CVS page says this for the "component": LabCorp/Helix SARS-COV-2 RNA, QL NAAT, RT PCR/TMA I really didn't need to see the results because I feel perfectly fine. What baffles me is that I clearly have been massively exposed to this virus. We didn't...

Our daughter tested negative for CV19 using the rapid test (antigen?). She had the J&J vaccine back in April and had a pretty strong reaction to it. She felt fine after the shot but was sick when she woke up the next morning. IIRC, the sickness lasted around 12 hrs. I should get my results by...

Had the Pfizer vaccine in March+April, so around three months ago.

She felt nothing on the first shot. A little sore around the injection location on the second. That's all. I had the same reaction on both shots: about a quarter-sized area around the spot that felt bruised for a couple of days.

I haven't posted in a long time but I wanted to post an update. My wife started sneezing last Tue/Wed then got "sick" on Fri. I took her to CVS on Sat morning for a nasal swab test. She received results this evening: POSITIVE. This is our first and only positive result. Both of us had the...

I don't know but I'm leaning towards the medicine causing the soreness. Of course, if someone screws up giving the shot then that can factor into soreness! I believe both of my shots were by nurses. The first had excellent technique and I didn't even realize it happened (she applied the...

We got our second Pfizer shots yesterday. After reading stories here and elsewhere about reactions following second shots, we had prepared for feeling sickly afterwards (had easy food ready to go, Tylenol, etc.). Well, we're both doing fine 36 hours later. Both of us have soreness around the...