Well, the whole family is finally recovered from the swine flu. When all was said and done, it had run rampant through our home for nigh on two weeks leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. In addition to taking down Alex and Emma, both Hannah and Holly got hit pretty hard too. Thankfully everything is now back to normal and everyone survived.
I was fortunate in that I managed to avoid becoming ill. I’ve since been exposed to the swine flu virus again at work (allegedly) and still feel fine. Either my immune system is freaking amazing or I’m doing something right because I’ve had multiple encounters with swine flu and come out on top every single time. Since I seem to be so lucky, I thought I’d share what has worked for me so that it can hopefully help you, my faithful reader, stay healthy.
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Over the past month or so, everybody in the family has been battling one form of illness or another. It all started with everyone suffering from bad stomach cramping. It then evolved into a mutant virus that might be confused with the stomach flu.
Emma was the first to begin exhibiting flu-like symptoms. She ended up missing two days of school and, even now, is still not functioning at 100%. Holly also got hit by this bug causing her to miss three days of work. I think that she is now finally over it after a week of suffering. I’ve been experiencing some symptoms including stomach discomfort and a fever but, so far, I’ve managed to avoid too much downtime. Alex has been able to avoid the majority of the contagions very effectively. Hannah, on the other hand, has not.
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We’ve had a bit of a rough time lately with our health. If I recall correctly, Alex was exposed to something a few months ago. Now, every week somebody new seems to be sick.
I’ve determined that having three little outbreak monkeys, a wife that is surrounded by outbreak monkeys every time she does a clinical, and me working with an outbreak monkey means that there’s a good chance that we’re going to get sick. It’s like our life is a pinball game and the virus that we keep getting is just banging around, racking up points each time one of us goes down. Stupid flippers…
Alex, Hannah, and I all spent Easter weekend sick. Instead of looking for Easter eggs, we were all in a NyQuil induced sleep. Well, I was anyways. The kids had to settle for children’s Motrin. Now, we’re all trying to get over this nasty bug that refuses to die.
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