[Magdalen] Feeling flu-ey. I'm sure it's a passing phase.

[Jay Weigel]

This year's flu is apparently not totally prevented by the flu shot.
Apparently one gets a milder variety, but yuk.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:15 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at icloud.com>
wrote:
>
> Please understand, influenza is a potentially fatal disease, and it's
> everyone's responsibility to prevent transmission to others if one is
> infected.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Dec 28, 2014, at 12:04 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > < Public Health Professional Hat = ON >
> >
> > Do Not, repeat NOT go to church tomorrow. Assume the worst (and hope you
> are wrong) that you have influenza. Next, get thee to a physician. Tamiflu
> can be helpful but only if you start it within a couple of days of the
> onset of symptoms.
> >
> > Jim Handsfield
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Dec 27, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Got up from working today to get some groceries and immediately felt
> >> potential flu symptoms, or maybe a cold. Dizzy-ish, nauseated-ish,
> >> achey-ish, fever-very-ish. It's all at a very low level. I had my flu
> >> shot, so certainly it isn't the flu. Kindly pray it away if you will.
> >>
> >> Didn't keep me from playing a restored video of Lessons and Carols
> >> from King's in the Boris Ord days (he was choirmaster). I was just
> >> thinking of switching to something else when the dean said something
> >> about those who "rejoice on another shore, and in a greater light." I
> >> burst into tears, as you do. Just like when I last read the Prodigal
> >> Son gospel at Vespers with my dear partner. That was a sobfest. I
> >> think I'm seeing what matters most to me. I thought of Dad being on
> >> that other shore (not so very far away) and rejoicing and thinking his
> >> son needs to look up from all the work for this project and rejoice
> >> too.
> >>
> >> Both cats were transfixed by the L&C video...don't know whether it was
> >> the music, the readings, or the flickering candles.
> >>
> >> I'm subdeacon tomorrow and need to chant the Revelation lesson for
> >> Childermas. No flu, please. Antigens, do your thing, bolstered by the
> >> flu shot. Never mind the news items about it being a weak dosage this
> >> year...surely the Chicago one is extra strong for us with the big
> >> shoulders...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Scott R. Knitter
> >> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>