From:joe and tina e-mail:joe.tina-A-verizon.net
Subject:RE: Two Mile Ride Date:Thu Oct 14 11:29:41 2021
Response to:2068

Joe will not be there. He's had a recent rough patch. He spent 6 days in the hospital after a "complication" from his spinal epidural steroid injection for his disc disease.He gets them about yearly when he has a flare up. This time he had a bleed into the spinal space, the very definition of "excruciating" pain. Long story, he was released 9/30 and was recovering then..last sat started getting sick. High fever/shakes/chills, crappy. We spent 9 hrs at the KP Urgent Care center at Tysons Sat. Covid test was neg, no Flu A/B, no RSV, so he was sent home on antibiotics. Then he had a reaction to the antibiotics. Then another Covid test yesterday ..neg.My test was also neg. Now he's on another antibiotic to see if this one knocks it out. He is very tired, sleeps a lot and still has fever and all but not like earlier this week.
There is a lot of this stuff going around right now. Not Covid, not Flu A/B, not RSV...just some kinda crap.The hospital was a risk factor and he was on high dose steroids for the back and that can make you more susceptible to stuff.