Flu, Great Leveller of Man

Bryon was talking to his mother last night. Turns out she'd had the flu for about 3 days. It was a weird flu. When you ate something, your stomach hurt, not with the usual nausea of flu, but you know, like if you'd eaten sour apples and were paying for that particular sin. There were chills. If you stayed away from food, you were mostly okay.

Yesterday I heard about this kind of flu on the radio. New flu, so if you got the flu shot, well, too bad. Flu's a mutating adapting viral machine.

And so, had trouble sleeping last night, again, just like Monday. Couldn't get brain to slow down after another busy work day. It was my plan today for my motif to be tired but martyred, go to work and stumble around.

Except I ate breakfast this morning, and I was hit by a wave of nausea and tummy soreness. Thinking I was open to the power of suggestion, I struggled on through about half a glass of milk and half a bowl of cereal before it became unbearable.

The good news, of course, is that there are periods were you feel pretty good. Just as long as you don't try to eat/drink anything to speak of.

So, I'll be home today, missing my 4th class with my students and getting behind at work. Yay. I hope that I can get this taken care of in one day, but it is what it is.

Catherine

Mirrored from Writer Tamago.