and that’s not the denial I was in for the first 2 days I was sick, just going on with my life as if I weren’t feverish. And not the, “I’m fine! I’m fine!” thing I was doing as soon as I had periods of a day with no fever. I’m actually better now, except for a lingering cough and congestion (both mild now).

I think we all had flu (despite having had flu shots). Our local NPR station did a story about MA being hard hit with it this year, and said “Even those who had flu shots are vulnerable.” In other words, it’s a strain they didn’t predict. So then I went to the CDC website and we had every single symptom, including the extended nature of it.

I whined a lot . . . but really, I felt lucky. We had nothing major going on that we had to miss, S wasn’t away at a conference, we didn’t have a snowstorm to try to clear while ill, etc., etc. It could have been a nightmare in so many ways that it wasn’t.

_{I’m finished babbling now.}