I'm Back, Alive...Kind Of....

So the last month of 2009 had me cursing the entire year, loathing it and bidding it a very happy farewell on NYE. Two days after Thanksgiving our family got hit by the H1N1 flu. Thankfully my kids only had a cough and 48 hours of 104 fevers and that was it. My husband literally only got a light cough and I.....I GOT HIT BY A TON OF SWINE BRICKS.

Normally, I don't let myself get sick....even with stomach flus I have powered through the illnesses and managed to run the tight ship I call my home. Not this time. I had fevers of up to 105, hallucinating, sever bodyaches, and I would either be freezing to death or burning up to the point where I would literally drench my clothes several times an hour. After 5 days of this hell and constant daydreaming of taking a long walk off of a very short bridge, my fever broke and I was well. Weak but well. A week later my cough had turned into bronchitis and then a sinus infection emerged. I literally spent the last 6 weeks of 2009 sick, snotty and feeling myself rot. Lovely.

I still don't know where or how we got the swine....since no one else we know got it...and no kids at my childrens' schools had it either. All I know is that I am glad it's over and any bad karma I mayhave accumulated in my past is now paid off with interest. I have since become a HUGE fan (if not addict) of Kombucha tea. I drink it daily and so far so good. This is, of course, hitting my wallet hard....the stuff ain't cheap...but when you've been as ill as I was, you will sell your soul not to feel like that again dammit!

And you may think I am crazy, but I am still glad that we did NOT get the H1N1 vaccine. I am not an anti-vacc nazi....but I have learned enough about vaccines and how the Pharm companies and the FDA treat us ALL like guinea pigs to shun placing some random, truly untested crap into my body or my childrens' bodies. News reports in Europe have stated that many people have died from the actual vaccine....not a chance I want to take with my kids...or myself for that matter. I also love how we don't hear about deaths from the vaccine on the news here. Oh man...my conspiracy theorist side is coming out now.....LOL!

Anyways....we went through it and lived to tell the tale. Like nature intended. And I am just glad to be through that guantlet of pestilence. Let health and this new decade begin! :)