A House of Pestilence

It’s that time of year again, and all three of have fallen ill with some kind of bug.   This one doesn’t seem as bad other years.   There’s been no puking.  None of us have even had any noticeable fever.   But, what it lacks in horrible symptoms, this critter makes up for in persistence.   It’s been about two weeks since Gabe first started to get sick, and about a week and a half since all of us fell one way or another.

Stephanie has been hit the hardest.   She even took today off from work, and went to the doctor.   This gave us welcome confirmation that it’s nothing worse than your average flu.    Still she’s full of aches and pains, and has been losing her concentration and falling asleep.

Ironically, tomorrow they get the vaccine at work.

I haven’t had as many symptoms, but have been getting splitting headaches.   My new highly mobile lifestyle has been really hard.   There were a couple of days where I woke up feeling like death and found it very very hard to motivate.

Gabriel has been almost completely unphased.   Some days he says he feels sick.   Some days his nose oozes green slime like some kind of Ghostbusters’ haunted faucet.   But all through he’s continued to zoom around and bounce off the walls like his normal overly-energetic self.

Gabe and I both got the vaccine this year.   It doesn’t seem to have helped us very much!