Get vaccinated

     Last Wednesday Tom started complaining of sinus pressure and just not feeling super well. He called me on his way home from work and mentioned that he had a sinus headache and that he thought he was coming down with a sinus infection, which he is prone to get every now and then. He came home and I gave him some zinc and IBUprofen and he took a nap for about an hour and a half that evening at which point he woke up and mentioned that he was feeling much better. Over the next few days he got worse with congestion, cough, etc. until Friday, when he hit his low point. Friday, Tom called off work and stayed home with the same symptoms he'd been having. However, when I called him Friday afternoon on my way home from work he said that he had gotten worse and really wasn't feeling well. I stopped at the store and got some last minute things to take care of the sick hubs, including a thermometer, and ingredients to make some chicken noodle soup for dinner. When I got home I made Tom take his temperature and he had a fever of 100.6. I did my best to take care of Tom but at the same time tried to be very careful to not catch whatever it was he had. I should have known though, that when you share a bed with someone you can never truly avoid their germs. haha
     Early Tuesday morning I woke up feeling really congested. I knew that I was getting whatever it was Tom had. But, I was determined that it was not going to last any longer than it absolutely had to. I was drinking a ton of water and OJ, eating oranges, chicken noodle soup,  I took zinc, I was doing sinus rinses to clear my congestion, anything I could think of to make this pass by as quickly with as little discomfort as possible. Wouldn't you know my luck though, that despite all that, it hit me hard, in some ways even worse than it had hit Tom. Tuesday night I began to get a wicked case of the chills--which is usually a sign for me that I'm getting a fever. I had Tom take my temperature several times but it kept coming back normal so we went to bed. Sometime in the middle of the night I woke up coughing and I took my temperature, it had risen to 99.1 then a few hours later it had risen again to 99.8. I ended up having a fever for 2 days straight with plenty of congestion, coughing, achiness, and a few more rather unfavorable side effects. Here it is Friday, and my fever just broke last night sometime around 1am. Maybe Tom is bionic, or maybe I'm just a wimp. Maybe it's because Tom's hit more toward the end of the week whereas I got it smack dab in the middle, but in some ways I feel like it laid me up more than him. But Tom was, as always, wonderful and he took care of me through it all. Who knows why. In any case were both on the mend and doing marginally better.
     Moral of the story? Get your flu shots boys and girls!