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I have decided – after a week of fighting this damned, energy-sapping, freedom-robbing flu bug – to live.
This decision does not come easy. My energy level remains somewhere just above nil, depleted by too much dehydration, sapped by too many purges of my system and stretched beyond the limited physical prowess of old age. I’ve devoured every magazine in the house while sitting on the toilet, used up more toilet paper than those damn bears in the Charmin ads and drank enough liquids to float an oil tanker.
A trip to the doc on Thursday confirmed the flu bug is, indeed behind me, although Amy still faces another day or two of recovery because she can muster up the strength to deliver a promised punishment for bringing this dread disease into Chateau Thompson.
Yard work postponed from last weekend will have to wait another week. Rain dominates the forecast for most of this weekend. Maybe I’ll use Saturday to revisit the Transportation and O. Winston Links museums in Roanoke.
Or maybe I’ll just enjoy not being sick.
Teresa
April 10, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Glad you’re feeling better, Doug, and I hope Amy is better soon, too. I caught a flu bug like that back in the summer of 1994, and I’ll never forget it. I honestly thought I would die before I got better. It totally zapped my strength for quite awhile, and I’m a strong woman. Welcome back to the world of the well.
fred1st
April 11, 2006 at 12:42 am
Welcome back. Almost.
Sherry Mahady
April 10, 2006 at 5:07 am
Sorry to hear you’re sick, but it explains the uncharacteristic typos and grammatical errors in today’s rant. (Until I read about your flu, I was going to write and scold you.) Next time you’re under the weather, feel free to send your article to me ahead of time and I’ll proof it for you.
Thanks for all you do to try and make sense of what’s going on in these very scary times.
Sincerely,
Sherry