Quarantine!

[shalanna]

NEWS FLASH-- Entire Village Afflicted with Plague* and/or Double Plague**. Film at eleven.

* (Flu)
** (Walking pneumonia)

Hubby and I both came down with the same crud that Mama has. It came to visit during the night on Tuesday and decided to stay. I had fever, night sweats, clammy chills, and coughing. Fever in one ear was 101.9 and in the other 102.3 until I took aspirin. Doctor's office is closed on Wednesdays (!!!) so we couldn't get in until today, by which time Hubby was coughing and said he had awful body aches. We were all sent for lung X-rays to make sure we don't have pneumonia. Crap!! Double crap!!

This is all the election's fault. Mama caught this at the caucus when we went to the elementary school cafeteria and sat at the kids' lunch tables. Then it snowed. Then she insisted I wait on her ("Bring me some oatmeal," "Take away this bowl of oatmeal that I couldn't eat," "Fix my covers that I have just coughed all over," "Sit on the foot of my bed and catch what I have.) So I caught it and was generous enough to share it with Hubster. Whee.

The dog is fine. Frisky and barking. Wants to know why we all moan and lie around all day.

Stay away from the coughing trio. Far, far away. Maybe the germs can't travel through the wires.

Comments

[dennismhavens.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh! And today we have a south wind, so those virii could be aimed right at us. Well, they'll have to get past whatever's causing my sinus infection. Good grief, we all sound like a bunch of nursing-home troublemakers, don't we? Time for the clear, healthy air of Marfa.

The dog is fine because for the most part dogs are immune to human diseases, and vice versa. There are exceptions, but obviously what y'all have isn't one of them. And he's probably being frisky in an effort to cheer you up, because with his superior sense of smell he knows you're sick, and it's the only way he can help. So laugh at his jokes, even if he's barked them at you before.

Get well quickly as possible.

As for germs traveling through the wires, there are six computers for 4 people in this house, so there's a decent space between mine and the router. I love routers: they're kind of a quantum experience.

Today is Albert Einstein's birthday. His 129th. I imagine they threw a big party for him, wherever he is.

[pameladean]

It is democracy's fault! The worst virus I ever got, the one that knocked out my sense of smell for a year and a half and involved eight solid weeks of coughing, I picked up in the jury room while doing my duty as a citizen. Feh.

I hope you guys feel better soon.

P.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I just have a cold, thankfully, rather than 'flu, as do several people on my friends list. The fact that I'm in the UK and the friends are in the US and New Zealand leads to worrying thoughts that the viruses can travel down the wires!

I hope you all get better soon.