On the Mend

So, you know how on Monday, I stated that I had some “gross symptoms of the flu”? Well, that was pretty much upgraded from “gross symptoms” to “get me into a fucking hospital NOW” a few days ago. But because I’m a man, am uninsured, and feel I deserve it anyway, I went ahead and just stayed home after calling off work.

And man, this has been one of the longest weeks of my life. Only today am I trying for a full meal; yesterday I some plain rice, but spent the previous 48 hours not even bothering to eat since nothing was staying in my stomach anyway. I think I may have returned to work one day early, because I was pretty dragging for the first half of the day. But after lunch—in this case, a one-hour totally uncomfortable nap in my work area—I wasn’t doing too bad. So now I’m home, I’m scraping together a meal, and I’ll have Burn Notice to look forward to after WWE SmackDown since I totally forgot about it last night.

Other than my Would You Rather post on my blog and some ancillary work on WWE ’12 for IGN, I haven’t done a damn thing this week. I feel like I’ve lost the whole week and have nothing to show for it… I don’t get sick very often other than allergies, and when I do, it’s usually over with in a couple days, and it’s certainly never debilitating to the point where I can’t work on an IGN assignment. This… this was an unpleasant first.

I guess I’m on the mend, but the timing kinda sucked, because we had Christmas dinner today. By “we” I mean Wal-Mart, of course, this being one of the two days they feed us. But I’m not a jerk, so I kept my ass out of the break room; it’s bad enough I showed up at all, but as long as I stayed in my own little corner in the very back of the store, the chance I’d infect others was minimized. Hopefully I’ll be 100% by the time I’m on the other side of the weekend because I’ll be seeing and old friend and don’t want to be spreading my flu around to him either.