Flu Week 2020

Is it just me, or does the flu seem especially rampant this year? Maybe it is just because it happened to us that it feels that way.

Never will I ever regret not getting a shot so much as I regret not getting the flu shot. Alan had his, so he’s had the curse of having to do both my job and his job this week, plus constantly Clorox wiping the house. It’s been rough. Only he and Joshua have escaped, and since all of us are still contagious, who is to say that they won’t still catch it.

I’d like to say that it was like a couple of weeks ago when I wrote “Sometimes Our Disadvantages are Actually Blessings”. The thing is this wasn’t like that at all. I cannot think of a single good thing that came from having the flu. I saved on gas money? Ha! That’s reaching, isn’t it? We spent less on food because no one was eating? I am not even sure if it made much difference.

This is only the second time in my life I have had the flu, and it knocks me down hard. This was my fourth day of high fever, but tonight, blessed glory of tonight, my temperature is down to 99.5, and I can use my brain again!!

Wahoo! Welcome back, Brain. To all of you who received text messages from me updating you on our illnesses etc. in my misery, with tons of autocorrect mistakes thrown in, I am sorry. I am hoping that by tomorrow my fever will break, and I will have a fully functioning mind once again. This week I was pathetic, lonely, and not thinking clearly.

Would you believe that Caleb was the first one to come down with the flu, and this disease lasts so long, he was not tested for it until SIX days after his symptoms (fever especially) began, and the test still came back positive. You are contagious with the flu for a solid week.

Even as I type this, I’m beginning to fall asleep again. Next year, I am getting the flu shot, and so are the children.

While I have been sick, I have watched Season 3 of the Crown, watched hours of comedians on YouTube, and caught up on reading Facebook posts and gossip about the royal family of Great Britain. Nothing whatsoever of any value was accomplished because my head was too fuzzy.

I will leave you with a message I came across during my research on the royals. You see, watching the Crown means that I have to pause it every 20 minutes and fact check the episodes. Most of it is highly altered from what actually happened, or it is speculation, but since my history knowledge is lacking, I have to Google what parts are real and which are dramatized.

Use this link to watch Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas address from this past Christmas, 2019. (You’ll have to scroll down a good bit to get to the video.) I love how she references Jesus and goes back over things that happened in the past year. You can also watch it on Twitter here without having to scroll.

Funny Things Heard at Our House this Week:

Nothing was funny. It was completely awful. We ate almost nothing, and I cried at commercials, movies, and even Facebook statuses.

Lessons Learned this Week:

Get a flu shot.