Saturday, November 28, 2009

Swine (H1N1) Flu

I contracted the flu at the beginning of October.  I remember it vividly, both because I was sick (not fun) and because it was the same weekend that Hudsonville Ice Cream had its factory sale in Holland.

That Saturday morning I felt fine.  Felt fine the whole time we stood in line at Hudsonville Ice Cream's factory waiting to buy two giant-size ice cream containers.  And felt fine most of that afternoon.

Didn't feel too well that evening.  Bad enough that I decided I'd stay home on Sunday.

Which turned out to be a really good choice.   I felt really bad, definitely flu but a little worse then normal.  By evening I lacked the energy to sit up.  That was not fun.

Monday hit like a load of bricks... that had the flu.  You know you're sick when you lack the energy to simply roll over on a couch.  Fortunately, I slept a lot, too.

My fever finally broke Monday evening after a nap.  I felt much better then!

I don't think I'd ever been so wiped out by the flu before, leading me to think it was swine flu.

By the way, I refuse to say "H1N1" for various reasons, mostly because it takes longer.  Unless we instead pronounced it as "Heye-neye" flu.  Could you imagine news people on TV and politicians calling it "heye-neye" flu?

Despite having had swine flu, I'm undeterred in my love of all pork products, especially bacon.  Mmm... bacon...  Frankly, I wish I could have bacon more often.  Perhaps it would've protected me from swine flu.