Re: Sorry for unannounced AWOL.

On 19 Lug, 03:27, Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
chris thompson wrote:
On Jul 18, 6:15 pm, Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:23:54 -0400, raven1
<quoththera...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:08:06 GMT, Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm back. Was rushed into hospital Saturday evening with a temp of
41.2C (106F) blood pressure through the roof, heart rate at 180bpm and
a head that felt like it had exploded been swept up, minced, pounded
and then stuck on an oven on full blast. I can remember looking up and
seeing four bags on the drip trolley, but I don't remember anything
else until Sunday morning.

Lots of tests later - and all they can really put it down to was a
virus, though what virus is still under debate. By Monday I was ready
to go home but of course I had to complete the course of IV
antibiotics so it was a long wait to Wednesday evening before I could
escape. Now feeling almost 100% better, so its back to the grindstone.

OK, I've now got 1503 posts to go through - and I not putting any
money on one of those announcing the publication of Ray's paper :)

Wow, you're really lucky, Bob! 106F is incompatible with life over any
significant length of time. Glad you're better!

Course, they give it in this new-fangled centigrading as 41.2C and I
kept asking "what's that in real money?" But nobody could do the
conversion for me until I got home to the computer.

--
Bob.

1.9 degrees F to 1 degree C is a good rule of thumb. So, you were 4.1
degrees over normal in Eurogrees. That's about 8 above normal in
realgrees.

For differences between temperatures, +1 C is exactly + 1.8 F. I
think I've been told that "maximum normal" is intentionally a round
figure in Celsius and the Fahrenheit figure is incidental and
misleadingly precise - healthy temperature varies through the day and
between people and maybe with age and climate and is normally below
37.0. Anyway, it's C x 9 / 5 (or x 1.8) plus 32.

Actually the Celsius scale was designed for scientific use: before
being redefined in terms of the Kelvin scale, it was defined on the
freezing and boiling points of water at standard pressure.

The Fahrenheit scale was originally defined on the freezing point of
water and the average human oral temperature, which was set at exactly
96 F by definition. Later it was redefined to have the boiling point
of water exactly at 212 F, and thus the human average temperature was
shifted to about 98 F.

Anyway, the average human temperature is not a round figure in either
scale:
Wikipedia says 36.8 °C ±0.7 °C, or 98.8 °F ±1.3 °F for oral
measurement and about 36.6 °C or 97.9 °F for armpit measurement.

.

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