It's been a bad winter

I don't get sick very often. But when I do, it's usually a doozy! This winter, I've been seriously ill twice with flu-like symptoms. I say "flu-like" because like every year, I got the flu vaccine before the bad weather started. In January, I had a period of nearly three weeks when I was either completely incapacitated, or in various stages of recovery.

Now, this past week, I visited a client who was sick, and three days later, I've come down with it myself. Yet another bout of serious congestion, vomiting, inability to sleep, and inability to enjoy food.

In three days, I've dropped nearly 8 pounds of weight (water weight, most likely) and feel like hell. I've missed a day of work, and those days when I did bother to work, it was a substandard effort.

Finally, I was planning to have my mom over this weekend to celebrate her birthday, but the way I'm feeling (and the likelihood that I'll be passing it on to my wife and son), I don't think I'm going to follow through on that plan.