Flu Shot...I miss you

For the last two years I have jumped on the bandwagon of the flu shot, but thought it was totally unecessary. After all, for the first 25 years of my life I had never had one, and I had made it through those flu seasons just fine. Well, this year I thought about getting it taken care of, but the opportunity never presented itself. In the past, I had done it at a health fair, or while at a doctor's office for another purpose. Well, mark my word, I will never wait for the opportunity to present itself again...I'll be finding a flu shot as soon as one is available.

On Sunday I started feeling that tickle in the back of my throat that spelled disaster. Mind you, a cold would be a disaster for me at this time of the year. So I grabbed my trusty Airborne, and 3 bottles of water. 6 hours, 2 Airbornes, and 3 bottles of water later, I wasn't feeling any relief. So I figured I would go home, take some Nyquil, get to bed early and deal with the sniffles in the morning. HA!

First of all, the Nyquil didn't cut it. Never before have I had such a hard time sleeping while drugged. So I got out of bed to get in the shower and nearly passed out trying to do so. I called into work and said "I'll see you tomorrow."

It's now Thursday and I am still camped out on my couch. My mom, bless her, has stopped by my office twice to pick up stuff for me to work on. I was going to go in yesterday, but was still breaking fevers and certainly contagious. Didn't think my office would appreciate me bringing that bug in! Then I got up to shower this morning...wanting to get back to work...and nearly passed out again.

I feel like such an invalid. And to make matters worse, I keep trying to get work done, but I kid you not...my brain is mush! I have completely lost my ability to think.

And let's not forget...class started last week, so I've missed a week of class only 2 weeks into the semester. ARGHHHH!

OK...I'm done venting, and this has tired me out. So I'm off to take a nap.

GET YOUR FLU SHOT!!!!!!!!!!