Flu Update

This has been THE longest week of my life!! Since Saturday, I've felt better, the flu has returned, I've felt better, the flu returns... I started to feel like I was going crazy! I finally went to the doctor yesterday and her theory is that my stomach is just really knocked out of whack from this flu. My awful neck aches she feels are from stomach acid - gross - and she put me on 8 days of Prevacid. I feel much better today, but I've had this "feeling" 3 times since Saturday!! How frustrating. I hope this is the end.

The ONLY good thing to come out of this mess is that I lost 7 or 8 pounds (those last pregnancy pounds that I seem to lose and somehow creep right back on when I'm not looking!) Here's the diet: toast 2-3 times a day and water, occassionally crackers. Yum. I'm still going to take it easy for the next few days.

Brendan nor Jeff came down with this awful thing, thank God!! I still have to knock on wood, but I always understood that stomach flus spread like wildfire, and it's been 6 days. My house still stinks like Fresh Linen Lysol (not really Fresh Linen-y, just Lysol-y), and my hands are so dry from all the Purell I've been using! I've even been putting it on Brendan's hands before he eats -- you're probably not supposed to use it on little kids, but I don't care as long as he doesn't get this awful bug!!

I know I'm going to be a complete GERMAPHOBE for a few weeks. Anyone ever get like that? Once one of us has been really sick, I walk around and I can practically see germs. Then, after weeks of wellness, I'll get lax again and won't care anymore.

Stay well everyone!!