I tried really hard to avoid getting H1N1 flu, really I did. I used hand sanitizer and washed until I lost the feeling in my fingers. I tried not to breath deeply around coughing people.
Let's face it, my work environment is filled with hundreds and hundreds of little germ carriers.(Remember, I'm an elementary school principal.) I even used a mask when helping sick kids in the health room. All my precautions were for naught! I got it, boy did I really get it.
Here are some things I learned from my "swine flu" experience.
- Women must be genetically superior! As proof of this, I rode 4 hours in a car with two women while I was a sick as a dog "actively shedding virus" (medical term) and to date neither one of these women have become sick.
- You know your temperature is higher than your IQ when you can hear the hair growing on your arms.
- If you are hacking and coughing through a surgical mask and sweating as if you have just finished a marathon, people let you go first in line at the pharmacy.
- At any given time on satellite tv there are at least 4 reruns of Law and Order playing simultaneously
- If the world had a few more reality tv shows, the rest of us would feel much more normal.
- There is no limit to the level of crankiness I can achieve...just ask my wife. Even the cat stayed away from me.
- Saltine crackers are a survival food.
- When the nurse says, "Most people say this shot really hurts", it really does.
- When you think you hear growling and it is really you trying to breathe, it is time to return to the doctor.
The list goes on and on.
When I returned to the living, In certain settings I felt a little status when people found out I had H1N1. After all anyone can get the seasonal flu...
I'm glad it is over.
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