I hate it.  Which is why I get the shot every year.  But it takes up to two weeks to confer immunity and I started coming down with the one I have now about two days later.

Right now I’m pretty miserable.  This was not a good time at work for me to be taking off sick.  And I’m sitting here at Casa del Garrett with an absolutely skull splitting headache due to spending too much time in bed.  So I can’t go lie down like my body wants to right now, and I can’t stay active because I’m too weak and feverish.  

This is the other reason why I stock up on supplies for the winter in November.  Being single means there’s no one else around here to go get things at the store while I stay home sick.  So if I come down with something I’d better have everything I need here at home.  Even so, every time I come down with something like this now, it reminds me how vulnerable I am because I’m single.  I was stepping weakly down the stairs this morning to go to the kitchen and get a glass of OJ, and maybe make myself a quick sandwich, and it felt like my legs were barely able to hold me up.  That’s the first time a flu has ever done that to me.  It put me to wondering what would happen if some illness simply made me too weak to even get out of bed.

Next year, I’m getting the shot earlier.  I waited this year for the usual freebie shot we get at work every year and it came (obviously) a tad too late.