I’ve been deathly ill for the last several days with the worst flu (I think that’s what it is) I’ve had in years: fever, gasto-distress, nausea, headaches, and more. Don’t get it.
UPDATE: The doc told me today that it almost certainly not flu, but an acute case of viral gastroenteritis. Ugh. It’s going around and it’s highly contagious, but only for the first 24 hours or so, so it’s safe for me to see other people again.
FURTHER UPDATE: I’m on the mend, but this really makes you weak. I weighed myself on Tuesday and found that from Thursday night to Tuesday night I had lost 7 pounds. Tonight (Wednesday) was my first trip back to the gym, and my heart really wasn’t in it.
I will miss you until you return. Hope that you get well soon. I recommend your readers in the meantime to go through the archives. I became interested in your blog and your organization from the interview that you posted years ago between NPR and Senator Rick Santorum.
Would you like to visit my blog?
http://brazilfan.blogspot.com
I’ll be checking out the archives myself. My dad is also a fan too.
I heard the story about a priest who cures himself from the flu with a hat and a bottle of brandy.
He puts himself to bed. He puts the hat at the feet side of the bed. He drinks from the bottle until he sees two hats. By then, he is cured.
I hope that u get well!!
Get well soon Tom!
Just after sending you the message, I have visited your personal site (probably I should have done other way around:)) and seen info on your disease. Glad to hear that you have already recovered.
First-time commenter here. I too recently came down with a gastro-intestinal norovirus, the sort of virus that breaks out on cruise ships. It has been sweeping through my home state of Wisconsin, shutting down schools even, and I gather from USA Today that it has been wreaking havoc nationally as well. I lost 8 pounds in 3 days and took a week to fully recover. Hope you are you are doing much better! Big fan of the blog.