Snapshot of having the flu (Raquel)
March 12, 2008 by sharppointythings
The day before I came down with the flu, Gabrielle was telling me about a woman who started out as a missionary and then ended up getting bounced between POW camps and concentrations camps a couple of times. Gabrielle tells me that this woman survived on a few hundred calories a day, and had malaria, dysentery and beriberi all at the same time. Wow. And I’d just been thinking that I didn’t feel like dealing with the day I had in front of me. Apparently I am a wimp.
That Sunday I had to make it downstairs to refill my water bottle. I had serious doubts about that actually working. Standing up, if anything, confirmed my doubts, but I decided I just had to do it. Halfway down the stairs I had to sit down and rest. And as I sat there on the stairs, exhausted from walking down the hallway, wondering how much more of this flu I could take, I thought: malaria, dysentery and beriberi. I am such a wimp.
If its any comfort, people have died from the flu before, you know. Just the flu.
Um, I’m not sure if that’s comforting or not.
I could go with ‘yes, it is’, though…