Still Sick

This is beginning to get really old. I've been ill in some form or another since the middle of October. Today, I'm sitting at home bundled under blankets while it's 80 degrees outside attempting to sweat out a fever.

Isn't the flu suppose to be a cold climate illness? One you get because you're trapped indoors with other people and the germs fester and grow in the warm uncirculated air of office buildings and classrooms. Where children fail to wash there hands and the grime of the urban sprawl is everywhere. Or a grad school illness? When everyone is overworked, underfed and exhausted so their immune system is compromised? Again trapped indoors 24/7 hunched over masses of work in a warm, confined building without proper circulation?

Head cold to bronchitis to the flu. Next it will be strep throat leading to tonsillitis followed by an appendicitis.

And a migraine to boot...

But on the flip side, my boss offered to bring me medication and chicken soup when I called in sick. And told me if I even thought about working on the show at home today instead of resting I'd be in trouble. He may be a gruff, defensive, micro-manager who can never be wrong...but in his heart he's a decent guy.