Finally Healthy-ish

Wow.  Did not think I was ever going to get over that bout of the flu.

I get a flu shot every year.  I have done it for the past 15+ years, September rolls around and I start thinking about flu shots.  If Halloween hits and I have not gotten one yet, I go to the doc-in-the-box and sit down for 5 minutes and let them poke me with needles.

A lot of people tell me this is crazy.  They point out they THEY have never gotten a flu shot and THEY have never gotten sick..so I should be fine without one as well.  Talk about messing up cause and effect.  Just because THEY haven't caught the flu does not mean I will not catch the flu.  Come on, I am smarter than that.

Anyway, I got the flu shot back around Halloween same as always and figured all was good....until the trip back from the U.S.S. Alabama.  Kevin was driving back that Sunday and my throat was sore. Woke up Monday to aches and pains, figured they were from sleeping on a 70 year old battleship so I popped a couple of ibuprofen and went to work.  When I came home from work I still felt like crap so Paula insisted I hit the Doc-in-the-box again.  Went down, they did the cotton swab up the nose test and yep, the flu.

I mentioned I had gotten the flu shot and was told that this year the flu that hit was a different strain than the one in the flu shot, so the flu shot was a waste....and yet I did not get my money back.

They ordered me home and here I have been since then.  I had already planned to take a couple of weeks off from work - the school closed all offices between Christmas and New Years' anyway, so it had just cost me 3-4 days of leave, but instead of resting and getting some much needed housework done I have spent the last 10-12 days lying in bed feeling like crap.  All of that broke yesterday.  Actually woke up and I could breathe which was a great feeling.  I still have a very bad cough and my nose is a little more clogged than I would like but considering how I have felt I will take it.

About my plans.  I plan to post several articles I have thought of over the next couple of days.  Originally I had thought to predate them so they showed up as having been written during my illness, but I don't really see the point in that.  I wrote them now, I am the only one reading this and it is not like I will forget I was sick..I just reminded myself.