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

[Grace Cangialosi]

Not a milder variety for a great many people here, and sick folks really do need to stay home! My son-in-law was laid low with it, and he had the pediatrician call in a scrip for the twins, just in case, since they are especially susceptible to respiratory ills.
Half of the choir and both LEMs were out at the church on Christmas Eve, and I had received a frantic call that afternoon from the church where I recently served as interim. Their new rector and his family were down with the flu, and they needed someone for Christmas morning. I did that service, and both readers were out sick, so someone stepped in.
The hospitals here are apparently full of flu cases.

> On Dec 28, 2014, at at in case.10:05 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>