The flu flew

It isn’t often that I can tell you the minute I became ill, but this past Friday was one of those days.  I was talking to a friend at 11:15 PM and my stomach began hurting.  By midnight I was experiencing dry heaves.  Saturday morning brought on the real thing along with other less mentionable symptoms and I spent the next sixty hours as miserable as I have ever been in my entire life.

I ran out of sheets, towels and all my favorite pajamas and to make matters worse I knew they were coming to put in new windows at nine on Monday morning!  There was no way I could call them and our apartment office doesn’t open until 9:30.  Sunday night I took down all the blinds and drapes, gathered up my dirty laundry and dragged myself out to the car where I drove like a mad woman for my sister’s house, just hoping I got there before anything bad happened.

Once I was there, she took such good care of me.  Freezing 7Up and crushing it so I could munch on the chips, making me grilled cheese when I felt better last night and doing all my laundry for me while I lay in her extra bedroom or in her living room watching HGTV!  It might have been a world-class vacation if I hadn’t felt like I had been run over by a Mack truck.

I came home tonight and struggled up to my apartment with clean laundry and a heavy bag full of two-liter 7Up bottles.  I was dreading it.  I thought it was possible they hadn’t even put in the new windows and even if they had I knew I would have to replace the blinds and draperies.  I just didn’t have that kind of energy.

The windows did not bode well.  There were no new stickers on the glass as I approached the building, but when I stepped inside my apartment!  New windows with the shades and draperies replaced and even the grating on the electric radiator replaced!  I called to thank the office and they seemed surprised.  It seems maintenance came in and did all of this without asking or telling!  I am so touched!

I am also relieved, because today I was able to really eat real food for the first time since Friday.  There is nothing like feeling bad to make feeling good extra special.