We were just sitting down to a glass of wine before dinner yesterday evening when Graham announced that he was not feeling too good and that I’d best not give him too much to eat. By ten, after struggling to eat a couple of mouthfuls, he was ready for bed, paracetamol, and extra rations of “oh, you poor sausage.”
He was running a mild fever, and had aches in his joints. A minor cough, nothing special.
So I told him that if he died of swine ‘flu I’d never talk to him again and tucked him in with great care.
Middle of the night I woke to find that I wasn’t feeling too good, either. Much the same symptoms.
So we stayed a’bed, following my oft-repeated philosophy that sleep is the best medicine.
I was up and at ‘em again by mid-day. Graham was feeling much better but still had a lot of sleep in him to use up so I took him tea and told him to stay where he was, call me if he needs anything. Then I tiptoed down to brew myself coffee.
I’m working on a killer line for when he wakes.
Oh, my! Hope it has really and truly passed off for you and that Graham is all better soon. Dolly can’t have the staff calling in sick!
Poor you, the two of you!!!
Let’s hope the 24 hr. bug doesn’t linger. Killer line eh?
So very sorry a bug found the two of you. Maybe you can work Wendy’s line about Dolly’s staff into a morning remark.
Yup. You can’t hardly beat the effectiveness of Wendy’s staff remark. Dolly will back me up on that. In the meantime, mucho get-well-fast mojo for you both.
OH NO! Feel better!
Thanks, friends! I’m pretty much finished with it now at 17:53, less than 24 hours by my count. A further nap this afternoon helped no end and now I’m sizzling, waiting for Graham to catch up. He’s groaning and moaning a lot but all the main symptoms have either disappeared or diminished almost to nothing.
We just heard that more than one in five British schoolchildren are estimated to have had the swine ‘flu bug already, and recovered fully from it. That sounds good.
24 hr bug, at least it doesn’t last long. Feel better!
John, a few weeks back, I had a very similar short febrile illness, shaking, feeling awful, sweating profusely — but better within a day. ‘Swine flu’ in someone whose had H1N1 in a former epidemic? I believe it likely was, can’t prove it though. Hope it was, at least. Nice to hear you fellows are feeling better now.
You poor things! Hope you are feeling lots better? Staff? my cat has slaves.