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Friday was my first day of spring break.  Yay!  I have sooooo much to do in the way of housekeeping that I’ve been putting off to when I had the uninterrupted time to paint and make everything look nice and clean and well kept as opposed to the chaos we usually live in. 

So when I came home from work Thursday evening with a sore throat, I was not happy.   I spent a restless night but woke up sore throat free and attributed it to the pollen instead of my boss, who had called in the previous Thursday with a temperature of 103 and a flu diagnosis, and was back at work Monday morning. 

I was in the kitchen yesterday morning, looking through the fridge and pondering whether I could stand another breakfast of Easter eggs when suddenly I began retching with no accompanying symtoms of nausea whatsoever.  My throat was too sore to eat anything the previous evening, so it wasn’t like there was anything to bring up.  I then started shivering with cold and on an 80-degree day was wrapped in an electric blanket turned on “high” with a comforter wrapped around for insulation.  

I spent the rest of the day in a fog of shivering, aching, and occasional periods where the temperature dropped briefly below 100, and I could actually read the news of the day and put up the occasional post albeit very slowly.

Well…I HAD planned on beginning a new diet and exercise program during my week off.  Having no desire to eat or drink anything whatsoever besides sucking on ice chips seems like a good start. 

Update:

Awakened again with pounding head at 12:30 p.m. to the sound of snoring.  Ol’ SwampMan is sitting next to me, snoozing, in his recliner, inhaling flu germs as I cough.  I was sleeping out here so he wouldn’t get sick, damnit! 

I’m waaay late on feeding the livestock, better grab some feed buckets and a bale of hay and get to it.

I spent about 1/2 hour out in the sunlight which I hadn’t been doing lately.  Vitamin D has been shown in some studies to be of value in fighting the flu.  Hey, I’ll take all the help I can get but don’t want to take Tamiflu.  That’s for people that are really sick.

Update Again:

While I was (am) sick and not feeding on a set schedule, the chickens ate all of my pansies.  Again.  Bastards.

Chicken soup is supposed to be good for respiratory infections, isn’t it?

Checked the scale out of curiosity and found I was 7 lbs. lighter in 2 days.  Yeah, I know it’s dehydration, but lemme enjoy it anyway.