As you may have noticed, there has been a gap in my posting articles. I am alive and well – now. But for all those out there who have not yet had the luxury of getting a Thanksgiving gift I got, I will give you fair warning. Unfortunately, my wife didn’t get the warning and got the bug too. At least our daughter was spared.
What was this Thanksgiving gift? It was an insidious little viral bug that is just wicked. This is not your garden variety cold or flu bug. Nope, this vicious beast comes camouflaged to maximize the misery for a full 7 days.
How does this bug work? Well, for all purposes it is like a bad head cold. Since the symptoms are a running nose then really stuffed up sinus, sneezing continually and a frontal headache. This gets worse to the point where it prevents you from getting rest on the first two nights as you have to focus on breathing. Your eyes start to hurt so the standard of laying low and just watching the idiot box doesn’t work. That hurts too. But all of the ailments are contained to the head so it is a head cold right? Bring out the chicken soup.
Wrong move. This beast acts like a bad head cold but it sneaks in a 100–101 degree temp. It was the flu in disguise! Of course, you realize this after you ate the chicken soup and standard stuff you do for a cold. So now your gut starts kicking in.
Combine being overtired from little rest or sleep, a temp, drainage into the stomach, and other food in the stomach you get the glorious sensation of feeling like you want to puke. But that is as far as it goes. You feel like you want to throw up for hours on end but never do. The feeling just hangs there.
Add in your hearing becomes ultra sensitive so even the ringing of a phone hurts and makes your headache that much worse. After the sneezing dies down, then here comes the coughing. Eventually, you lose your voice and each cough and sneeze makes the headaches worse and your ribs sore.
7 days later and you finally get a reprieve from the bug. Followed by having to catch up on a week’s worth of dishes, vacuuming, and the laundry build up, this virus ranks as one of the meanest little bugs in a while.
Just when you thought the cold or flu was bad, now they are imitating each other. Sheesh.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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