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Hearing Home -- Shelby
Sickness
We've got a fair amount of illness running (well, shuffling) around the house at the moment -- both my wife and daughter are down with the phleghms. Actually, my wife is down with it; she's totally knocked out at the moment. Athena (my daughter) is doing that thing kids do, with a burst of activity that collapses into lethargy and moodiness about 10 minutes later. She's on the "up" part of that cycle at this moment. It won't last. Also, it's raining. Which isn't so bad, I guess; if you're going to be sick, better to have it be on a miserable day. There's nothing worse than being sick on one of those glorious days that demands you go out in its fabulous beauty and prance about like a Von Trapp on a mountainside.
I'm not sick, which is to say I'm not sick yet. I tend to be the last person in the house to get sick with whatever's going around, since -- there's no better way to put this -- I don't get out much. Athena gets everything first, because she's in preschool, and the chief purpose of preschool is the dissemination of our nation's microflora to the greatest possible number of people. Krissy is next because it's that whole mom-kid thing, and then finally it gets to me. My immune system is surprisingly hardy, except when it isn't, in which I collapse into 36 hours of sleep and vomiting. This happens about once a year.
Oddly enough, back when I worked at a newspaper, there were two consecutive years when I became vomitoriously ill the same day I was to interview Dolly Parton. I always felt bad about that, as it seems to imply that Dolly Parton makes me want to puke. It's really not like that at all. I love Dolly. It's the viruses that apparently have an objection.
We'll know within the next couple of days whether this cold going around the family knocks me on my tuckus. If you see an entry on Wednesday or Thursday that consists of the words "help me" followed by spastic bursts of random characters, you'll know which it is. Also, don't expect much more out of me that day. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
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Yes, I've already been advised of the Vitamin C thing by my wife (of course, look what good it's done her). She also suggests Zinc as well.
Thanks for the concern! That's awfully nice of you! -
You might want to consider taking 5,000 mg of Vitamin C now before the symptoms occur. It really seems to help keep it at bay or at the least, lessen the severity. Good luck sweetie...M
9/22/03 8:27 PM
I'll have to remember to use that sometime...