Chuck52
Veteran Member
So, how many of you folks out in TBN land have had this year's
version of the flu? Mid-Missouri has been hit pretty hard...
closed schools and cancelled events and such. My wife got it
two weeks ago. High fever, with aches and pains, headache and
some respiratory involvement. She's a nurse and refuses to go
to a doctor until the hearse shows up in the driveway, so she
just suffered along for a week, getting better and then relapsing.
When she got over that, she developed a bacterial sinus infection
and I finally forced her to see a pill-pusher. She started feeling
just fine about last Friday, so in order to continue the fun I got
it. Same symptoms. I hit 101 yesterday, after taking my usual
aspirin....as close to a "natural" analgesic as any. So the wife
had me take three ibuprofens. A few minutes later my chills were
replaced by what I bet a heat-flash feels like. I seem to be sensitive
to pain medications as well as most decongestants.
Anyhoo, here I am. I don't feel good enough to go to work, and I
guess I'd just be spreading the bug anyway. On the other hand,
I really don't feel all that bad right now. I was having some
chills a while ago, and I decided to make use of the !@#$% Jacuzzi
we paid so much to have included in our new master bath addition
and have used maybe eight times in as many months, and at least
two of those were the grandkids. OK. Got the cordless phone at hand
so I wouldn't have to bail out to answer it. Then I started looking
for something to read...get's kinda boring just sitting there
cooking. Turns out I've read every book in the house, some twice.
I've also been through most of the magazines, and I've read the
Grizzly catalog all the way through a few times. I ended up reading
"The House on the Cliff", which some of you may recognize as a
Hardy Boys Mystery. At least it had been quite a few years since
I last read that one! It might not callenge the old intellect, but
it was somewhat distracting. Then I noticed that I was holding
the book on my high-and-dry stomache as I lay in the tub, and I
then spent an entertaining few minutes trying to estimate the
volume of gut, and the weight thereof, extending above the
waterline. I think perhaps I should run a phone line into the
bathroom so I can hook up the computer in there. Then a cordless
and waterproof keyboard would let me submit these valuable ramblings
while I simmer.
Chuck
version of the flu? Mid-Missouri has been hit pretty hard...
closed schools and cancelled events and such. My wife got it
two weeks ago. High fever, with aches and pains, headache and
some respiratory involvement. She's a nurse and refuses to go
to a doctor until the hearse shows up in the driveway, so she
just suffered along for a week, getting better and then relapsing.
When she got over that, she developed a bacterial sinus infection
and I finally forced her to see a pill-pusher. She started feeling
just fine about last Friday, so in order to continue the fun I got
it. Same symptoms. I hit 101 yesterday, after taking my usual
aspirin....as close to a "natural" analgesic as any. So the wife
had me take three ibuprofens. A few minutes later my chills were
replaced by what I bet a heat-flash feels like. I seem to be sensitive
to pain medications as well as most decongestants.
Anyhoo, here I am. I don't feel good enough to go to work, and I
guess I'd just be spreading the bug anyway. On the other hand,
I really don't feel all that bad right now. I was having some
chills a while ago, and I decided to make use of the !@#$% Jacuzzi
we paid so much to have included in our new master bath addition
and have used maybe eight times in as many months, and at least
two of those were the grandkids. OK. Got the cordless phone at hand
so I wouldn't have to bail out to answer it. Then I started looking
for something to read...get's kinda boring just sitting there
cooking. Turns out I've read every book in the house, some twice.
I've also been through most of the magazines, and I've read the
Grizzly catalog all the way through a few times. I ended up reading
"The House on the Cliff", which some of you may recognize as a
Hardy Boys Mystery. At least it had been quite a few years since
I last read that one! It might not callenge the old intellect, but
it was somewhat distracting. Then I noticed that I was holding
the book on my high-and-dry stomache as I lay in the tub, and I
then spent an entertaining few minutes trying to estimate the
volume of gut, and the weight thereof, extending above the
waterline. I think perhaps I should run a phone line into the
bathroom so I can hook up the computer in there. Then a cordless
and waterproof keyboard would let me submit these valuable ramblings
while I simmer.
Chuck
