1-1-26 SHORT HILLS: I realize that it’s been almost two weeks with no post. No post about Xmas, the Party, the weather, the guests, the dogs, the horses and all the festivities. It wasn’t because we were having such a good time, but we were both sick, sick, sick.
I started with fever and an unrelenting cough, weakness and prostration. After a fight, I let them take me to the DHMC-ER where my X-ray showed pneumonia and my flu test was positive—a double header. The doc turned out to be the nephew of a classmate from BU Sch of Med back in the sixties! Dan and Judy poured me back into the car for the trip to CVS for antibiotics and then home. I was afebrile after a couple days on the antibiotics and well enough to make it to the party for a few hours between naps.
Judy got sick a few days after I did. She had a terrible cold with nasal symptoms and then a sore throat. She drove us home while sick, packed and unpacked the car, saw to the dogs, watered the plants, all while dodging snow storms and frigid cold. Both of us have slept and slept and slept, and neither of us has any appetite. We watched CNN for New Years, but they never showed the ball drop, or we dropped off and missed it.
The Party was a huge success, and we are still eating left-overs. All the snow we had in VT almost totally melted, before new storms arrived with fresh snow, almost enough to fully replace that which was lost. We had snow in NJ and got plowed before we got home and last night we got a few inches more. Today is cold and very windy. The sunshine isn’t warming anything up. I’m still coughing. I know someone I can wish this on.
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