Merry Christmas! For most, and then there is a case of what might have been a mild dose of Christmas Swine Flu. Here’s its story.
Tuesday had a suspicious wheezy throat. Thursday whole windpipe felt inflamed on a brisk very cold walk. Friday bad headache, sore throat that seemed to go well into my chest with a wheezy cough, sensitive to noises, a few aches, tired and cold in a warm room – just sat looking at the fire and slightly worried it might get worse or serious.
Saturday, Christmas Day, after a Beechams didn’t feel too bad but for the first time ever had no alcohol or Christmas Cake on Christmas Day. Sunday it was back to a bad headache and tired all day, not been eating much. Monday, today, feel a lot better with just an occasional cough. Might have been Swine Flu or maybe just something vaguely answering that description.
Update: Tuesday not so good, Wednesday went out and feel a lot better just for doing that.
So I guess it lasted a week but was hardly a fraction as bad as a dose I had 40 years ago that laid me well out of it for a whole day with my dad looking anxiously on for hours. Then I woke up and said can I have a bowl of hot milk with bread and sugar in it – so he said, something I had as a child. Guess my dad was worried as he lost a brother from flu in 1919.