[at-l] You Too?

[Bluetrail@aol.com]

Reporting in from Florida, our home is the house of pestilence.  After 
listening to several people coughing at work, the Sunday before Christmas I 
began coughing.  Monday I was running a fever of 101, Tuesday 100, Wedneday 
100.5 and off to the doctor who gave me an antibiotic because my cough 
appeared to be turning in to bronchitis.  Gutsy and Dan came in on Christmas 
day for dinner; fortunately, the fever was gone by then.  Rainbow Slick (AT 
95 (at least I think it was 95, maybe 96) and his wife were here the Monday 
after Christmas.  I hope we didn't pass this along to them either.  It's now 
two weeks and I'm still coughing and blowing my nose--and probably addicted 
to nasal spray.  

On the Sunday after Christmas Jon started coughing.  He's still coughing his 
head off, even after taking the same antibiotic I took.  We even cancelled 
out on our favorite New Year's activity, the FT campout in the Ocala National 
Forest.  We spent New Year's Eve with my son (13) and one of his friends, 
eating chilli dogs and shooting off old fireworks in our cul-de-sac and 
drinking sparkling grape juice.  On the theory that oxygen is good for you, 
Jon rallied enough to do a 1.5 hour hike on New Year's Day, but spent about 
40% of the hike coughing.  He's decided to wait before returning to his paid 
trail work job in SC; it's hard to cough and do trail work.

I hope NO ONE gets this thing, and I sure hope we didin't give it to our 
visitors.  It's malicious.

Joan
bluetrail@aol.com

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