This has got to be the worst flu ever. One whole week it took to run its course for me. And being the first to go down also means I am the first to bounce back to health. And what a relief it is to be without swollen sinuses, teary eyes, runny nose, an itchy, scratchy throat and a cough that wouldn't stop! The news today states that almost one in ten beds in intensive care units across the country are taken up by flu victims, with about 200 more people fighting for their lives against swine flu compared to last year. So, I have to be thankful that ours are just a horribly uncomfortable experience rather than life-threatening.
Julien is still not totally well and would not stop crying last night. He still has a lot of phlegm in him and while we sucked out as much as we could from his nose, there was nothing we can do for that trapped in the throat. This has affected his appetite and he fed only about 3 times the day before.
Still, he gave us a hard time last night. As a result, we all slept in and I ended up not having had time to cook a proper lunch and we resorted to a makeshift lunch of frankfurters and tinned soup... which incidentally did happen to be our snowed-in emergency stores... the irony!
Now, I finally understand why my fren A would be upset when someone sick turns up for gatherings. She once jumped back from me three paces when I told her I had the runs... And would only come nearer when I told her it's cos of something I ate. She is frightfully afraid of any virus passing on to her toddler and I had thought she was over-reacting then. Now, I know better. It really is a lot of pain being sick, when you are a little baby! Thankfully, his appetite seems to have returned and at one point today, he wanted feeding hourly. Hopefully, we'll all be well soon to enjoy Christmas!
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