#021 InfectShawn ReflectShawn

I got up for work today feeling pretty good, and thought, 'Wow, we dodged a bullet here. Only one of us got sick with this nasty cold.'

Five hours later...I received a text, 'I'm sick as a dog...'

From the Patient to the Doctor in just a couple of days!

I've never been very good at being an Optimist. Clearly this is a prime example. How is it, no matter how hard you try, it is impossible not to spread a bug through the house. Thank god the dogs can't catch it!

'In sickness and in Health' as they say... So now I will fill in the roll of Nurse Maid, Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. And I do so willingly. I have to say that while I was under the weather with that nasty cold, Marcel waited on me, hand and foot.  Honestly if it wasn't for him I'm sure I'd still be horking up a lung.

So I will gladly make whatever he wants to eat, get his medication, hot drinks, cold drinks, another box of kleenex, rub vicks on his chest... whatever he needs, I'll do so without delay. (I sure hope he doesn't read this)

Hmmmm, sorry, gotta dash... someone wants a hot toddy...

# 015 CongestShawn

Well, it started today. 

I woke up with a little tickle in my throat. An hour later as I was exiting the Metro I  felt like I'd been hit by a steam roller.

Somehow I had the wherewithal to bring some zinc tablets and Vit C to the office.  Once I got in the door, I grabbed a hot tea and some Advil and decided that I was going to win this. I was sucking on zinc tablets and alternately drinking tea and then effervescent vitamin C all day long. 

By about noon the pressure behind my eyes faded. Maybe I can do this.  Maybe I can beat this bug into submission from the very beginning.

For lunch I was decided I'd step it up a notch. Chicken Tonkinese Soup with extra Sriracha.  Et voila... I could breathe again!

Unfortunately, by about 4PM a deep cough took hold. I was beginning to lose the fight. Cough drops were useless.

Suppertime called for more soup... Chicken Tom Yum. Delicious but still the congestion continues to increase... 

I have one final attack tonight. I will do a double Neti-Pot and pray that come morning I don't become the walking dead. 

...but I'm not holding my breath.