A De-abilitating Flu Bug

I guess I knew this was bound to happen to me as it has all happened before. I get pretty revved up for the holiday season and get myself all busy, but having a great time. But then I get too busy and don't take care of myself and the littlest of bugs takes me down. And this was no exception...I picked up the most de-abilitating flu bug! Now I don't know if it was swine flu or some other horrible version of it but I was literally secluded in my bed for 38 hours sleeping and downing codine laced cough syrup.

Addison had picked up bronchitus and needless to say when I went to the GP, he thought I did too. I got some antibiotics, but I couldn't breath without having to cough and my body ached and I just couldn't move.

Wednesday morning, Kevin knew I wasn't feeling well and asked if I wanted him to stay home. I never ask him to do that but I wasn't doing well. He told me he had to run in a start a couple of tests and then he would come home early, well I heard what he said but I wasn't moving out of my bed. Later he told me that he thought in saying that to me that I would at least make my way down the stairs to lay on the couch and be by the kids, but after I didn't come down he knew I was pretty bad and called into work. I did literally stay in bed for the next 38 hours and begged for NyQuil to just knock me out as sleeping was the only time it didn't hurt, except when I would wake up in a pool of sweat then be freezing.

I had so many plans to do before Christmas - make up cookie plates, write up my Christmas cards and more! This year was our last Christmas in England and we were actually going to be all on our own for the first time and doing it with just the four of us. We were going to the neighbors for a Christmas Eve party, go to the village church for the service, then the pub afterwards, but we didn't get to do any of it. It is probably a very good thing that we didn't plan on going back to the States for Christmas because #1 the snow shut everything down and we wouldn't have been able to fly out and #2 I was so horribly sick that travel wouldn't have been advisable.

This is the second time that I have gotten the de-abilitating flu just before Christmas...next year I'm getting the flu shot!!!!!!