FLU

WAH.......

I've been sick all week...the FLU. Can you imagine having the FLU back in, say, the 1600's? in the middle of winter? There you are in your layers of clothes from the 1600's, fever of 103, you live alone...you have to go out and get wood for the fire. No indoor plumbing...(not that I'd take a shower anyway, is there no worse feeling than cold water on your skin when you have a fever and even your hair hurts?!) Not to mention what it would take to prepare something to eat! Perhaps you'd always have soup going in the hearth...but, no popsicles to help bring your fever down...or Clint Eastwood movies to throw in the DVD player while you nap...no phone so your friends and family can call and check in on you...I wonder what it will be like having the FLU 400 years from now..."oh those poor people back at the turn of the century, they used to get this thing called the FLU...and they had to lay around for days...couldn't even go to work!"

I think getting sick is nature's way of saying "sit the f*ck down and relax...NOW!" I've never been good at doing nothing. I'm a "producer," I have to constantly be accomplishing...something. For me, it's a good day/week when I can look back and see the things I got done on my list of things to do...you know the list...the one that never ends...I will certainly die without doing everything I want to get done...probably from the FLU.