You know how when people get the flu they always say they feel like they've been hit by a truck?
Well this particular truck didn't just flatten me as it came around a corner, it was more like I was just lying there waiting while the inevitable happened. Like I was listening to the little alarm that beeps when a big truck backs up, and I was powerless to move out of the way. So it back over me and stayed parked there all day yesterday.
God is so good! Tim called from Albama and said that he had tried to get a flight out on Thursday night, but the weather was really bad and there weren't any. He had a call in to a doctor who was working on the same project and who was going out at 2:30 am. Tim was going to try to hitch a ride to the airport with him. His flight would be at 7:00 a.m. He was concerned though because the weather was looking really bad here and he was concerned that he wouldn't get home in time.
He got out just before they cancelled thousands of flights all up and down the east coast! We had a really nasty ice storm.
A MIRACLE!!
And by the time he got home at 10:00 a.m. , I was flat on my back firmly planted under the very large truck with "Influenza A" printed on the side. I went to bed and didn't get up for most of the rest of the day. When I did I was so dizzy and weak that I had to sit back down right away.
It's really not as bad as everyone predicts though.
I read on the internet to expect it to be around 5-7 days. Paul got it the worst of all and he only really had it for three days. I have had it for three at most but the worst of it was yesterday. Today I just feel wiped out.
John and Brendan have a touch, fevers and stuffiness but not the way Paul did.
We won't make it to Mass this weekend. We could probably all get there but with all the sneezing and coughing that we are doing, it would be really unChristian to spread this to the whole parish.
We just have to watch for nasty secondary infections. Other than that, I'd say we came out considerably better than the predictions of the docs and the internet. Good thing too, Tim has to leave again tomorrow morning. I am really praying he doesn't get sick!
Well, our health is certainly better that that of the dryer...
but I'll leave that for another post.
