Yes, it's true. I got the dreaded influenza bug! I am really not surprised as I had 4 students out over the course of 3 1/2 weeks with it, plus a very high-stress classroom on top of that, so I think it was bound to happen. At first I thought it was just a chest cold and would have stuck with that if my OB/GYN had not pretty much insisted that I go get tested. They were out of the tests in the office, so I had to go to the hospital lab to get the test. My doc said she would call me with the results. But then, she was the on-call doctor, so I didn't hear anything and didn't hear anything and didn't hear anything.
Finally at 11:30 on Friday night, I called the office to leave a message for the "on-call" doctor knowing it was mine. She called me back a few minutes later apologizing because she had been called in and didn't get out of the ER until 11:00 and figured that was too late to call me. But she confirmed that the test was positive and sent a prescription to the Walgreens (luckily a 24 hour one is just a few blocks away) and my wonderful husband picked it up for me on his way home from a movie with friends.
So basically, I spent 18 of every 24 hours in bed on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. My hips were very sore from being only on my sides so much and Pret was very glad to come back to OUR bed on Monday night after sleeping on the couch so I could stay in the bed (and he could get away from my hacking cough!) I braved school again on Tuesday and life has been pretty good. My kids are probably glad that I can't yell at them right now (I still have a VERY rough voice) and they have been as cooperative as my class gets with everything.
In summary, I did get a flu shot back in September and I think that is the only reason that I didn't end up in the hospital with this. But in the end, I think it was the Lord's way of saying, "You need a break and you won't take it without some intervening." Thank you Lord! I'm not even going to complain about the side-effects!
