Flu, but is it swine?

It has not been a good week. I woke up on Monday morning with stomach cramps, diarrhea, weakness, fatigue. I stayed home from work and rested — it just felt like a "stomach flu" or something. On Tuesday I felt somewhat better, and by afternoon, was in pretty good shape - I went to Church assignments on Tuesday evening and was fine. I went in to work on Wednesday morning.

But after coming home at lunchtime, I felt like I was hit by a truck — fever, dizzyness, alternating sweating and chills, various aches and pains. So I made an appointment to see the family doctor. He doctor said it's not classic swine flu symptoms (no sore throat and cough, for example) but that it likely could be anyway, and suggested I treat it as if it were. They made me wear that cute face mask when I was in the office; luckily, I didn't have to wear it around the house.

So I took the rest of the week off. That meant no work on Thursday, and no Church meetings on Thursday evening (I did participate in stake presidency meeting via telephone). I did LOTS of sleeping, which was good for me. Fortunately, Friday was a holiday (July 3) which meant a "free" day off.

It's nice to have some "down time" now and then, but one of my symptoms was a real lack of motivation. I just wasn't eager to read, write, or anything else — and that never happens to me. So it was really some "down time" for me. I guess that was good. I enjoyed watching some Wimbledon tennis matches — that was helpful. The diarrhea eventually ended, but I managed to lose a few pounds in the process.

My sweet wife took good care of me. She got annoyed at how often I nagged her to wash her hands with anti-bacterial stuff, but so far, she's escaped the infection. We'll hope it lasts! Meanwhile, not only was she fixing me good things to eat and watching out for me, she was even performing all kinds of "manly" duties to try to "cover" for me. What a sweetie she is!