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Flu This

The Hooks family just completed one week of barf-o-rama.  So far, I am the lucky one that seems to have eluded the illness but I do have an impending sense of doom that something bad is going to happen at any moment.  It all started eight days ago when we got the call from school that Jacqueline was vomiting and needed to be picked up.  Karen leaves work early and then has to stay home on Tuesday while our little one just lays on the couch and watches television and sleeps.  It’s not too bad staying home from school for the kids when you have three hundred channels to choose from.  I remember when the choices were “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” or “That Girl” and you were dying to go back to school just to get away from the bad television and the boredom.

Of course, Karen had planned on taking Veteran’s Day off but had to work after missing the day before, so I decided to stay home last Wednesday.  It was a good day.  I had the kids work like slaves and we cleaned the place up nice and neat.  We decided to go to the new Sonic that opened up that all the kids are talking about.  Crazy, the line of cars was an hour long for food.  It’s sad that the most exciting thing to happen in Vista in the last twenty years is a Sonic opening up, but who am I to pass judgement on this little town.  Anyways, all was good until Jennifer walked in the door from her friend’s house at 5:15pm bawling her head off.  In trying to console her, we gathered that she had puked in the street right before walking in the front door.  We got another sickie poo!  Wait, what is that I hear?  Mom just got home and she’s puking.  We’re on a roll now.  Stewart gets it on Friday, but didn’t actually puke until Sunday.  Weird.  I’m just thankful that I have still dodged the bullet.  The puking comes on suddenly with no warning.  I sat in a conference room with twelve people all day Friday praying that I wouldn’t spew all over everyone. 

All I see and hear about seems to be getting vaccinated for the flu and H1N1.  No, thank you.  My father had heart disease and was strongly urged to get the flu shot every year by his cardiologist.  He and my mom got the flu shot every year and then proceeded to get the flu about two weeks later.  Call me superstitious.  Karen got the flu shot and then she gets the flu.  I think she might even have had the flu twice in the last month and now she has to get the H1N1 shot because she works for a health care provider.  Suey! 

I hope everyone has a healthy Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Nothing worse than being ill over the holidays.  Take your vitamin C.

Flu this.

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