Happy Easter to those who celebrate this religious holiday.
Just a little update - in between all the A-2-Z postings.
I missed last Sunday's check in. I didn't want to miss today's check in.
The bad news is nothing to report on walking ... because ... I have been too sick to do anything beyond take naps, stare at the TV with glassy eyes or listen to an audio book. I thought this might be another cold (6th of the season), but, no, nothing simple like a cold. After 4 days of increasing symptoms I visited a mini-clinic near me. Flu A, was the diagnosis. Apparently it was a strain that was not covered by my flu shot.
Friday was my birthday. It was a pretty miserable day - feeling terrible - rain - and all our weekend plans cancelled.
Saturday morning I woke up even worse. Could . Not . Swallow!! Eyes both blood shot red red red. So I returned to the clinic ... who bounced me to the ER! Six hours later - after fluids to get me hydrated and a CAT scan of my neck and a push of steroids through the IV to shrink my swollen throat and blood work, and new prescription drugs - the diagnosis still is .... All Flu. Flu. Flu.
And Saturday night, while I was feeling half way to human again - my husband spiked a temp of 102.6. We are not out of the woods yet, I fear.
Walking?? Well, its been over 2 weeks since my shoes have hit the pavement - no walking unless you count the steps from the living room recliner with TV to the bedroom and back again (between naps.). The flu really takes it out of you.
All I can say is I am glad that I wrote and scheduled all the A-2-Z postings in March. At least that goes on without me. I am behind visiting the blogs in the challenge, but may be able to catch up at some point.
While I am in a flu-coma I am listening to the audio book Gone With The Wind. I know I read the book a very long time ago and I saw the movie and I probably listened to this audio version before - but it has been great fun to hear the story again - and at 44+ hours of listening (long book), it should distract me until I am more well. There is a lot of civil war history in this story, of course, but it is the kind of history I really enjoy: how people lived, what was important to them, what that war was like for the civilians - the inside story that is often missed in factual retelling of history books.
I'll check back next Sunday with an update when I am not a human germ making machine (hopefully.)
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