Space Girl

Well.  Three out of four of us have had swine flu in this house and we've all had very different experiences with it.  Child number two had a breathless, puking, non-stop hacking, heart racing panting mega-wheezing but No Fever version.  I had the same, but, with a fever.  My husband had a "cold".  What all these experiences had in common was the sudden severity of the onset.  This flu gets down to business.  It does not creep up on you slowly, giving you warning signs like an ordinary cold/flu.  It dives right in and tries to annihilate you.  Even my husband of the mild cold version had his symptoms come on with a vengeance.  Suddenly, without a warning of a drippy nose or swollen gland, or, sore throat, he was down, with all of the above plus a hacking cough.  He of the stellar immune system was back in form after a few days, but, is still hacking like the rest of us.

I've been taking Tamiflu and it seems to work.  I am going to get out of bed today.  I've been so useless, and, have not even been able to read.  I have managed a few online scrabble games between naps with a New York friend.  Thank goodness for that as my brain feels like a cauliflower.

Speaking of vapid, one of my friends sent me this video as he thought it might make me feel better.  I do think it has had an effect!