Person versus Bugs

Hi, Rhys on Wednesday.
It must be grouchy writer week, because I too am in full grouch today. I am fighting off a horrible cold, flu, respiratory infection. I can't tell you which yet because I haven't let it come out but it is lurking, with headache, chills and sweats and leaving me feeling totally wiped out. Maybe I caught Jane's through the ether, but I rather think it was a lot of little kids at a St Paddy's party last Saturday.

Anyway, it could not have come at a worse time. For those of you who aren't into such things, it is Easter week. I am a cantor and choir member at my church. I am scheduled to do much of the singing at services three days in a row. It's okay in the back row of the choir. You can open your mouth and fake it. But standing alone at a mike with a thousand people in the church watching you... not so easy to fake.
So I'm valiantly fighting it off. This involves staring in the mirror and saying fiercely, "You may not be sick right now." Also taking EmergenC, Zicam up the nose, echinacea tea with honey, hot chicken soup, curry, steaming, sitting in a sauna--anything to zap those darned bugs into submission. If anyone knows a brilliant way of defeating colds or flu, please email me asap.

Oh, and did I mention I have to speak at a store in San Francisco this evening? Since the cold is still lurking in my head my thought process is...well... slow. The audience may be in for a long night!

Oh, and did I also mention that the famous composer, Dan Schutte, who wrote such church classics as City of God, Here I am, Lord and a zillion others, will be sitting in the congregation, listening to me singing his music?

So please, anyone who reads this waft some positive vibes in my direction. I'll let you know whether I beat the bugs or not.

Rhys Bowen

Comments

[Jody]

All I can tell you Rhys, is that my grandson had the flu a couple of weeks ago. The doctor put him (& the rest of the family) on Tamiflu. He was better in two days, though my daughter kept him home from school another day after that.

[Jane Finnis]

Rhys, you poor thing! I really sympathise, and wish you the best of success in your battle against the bugs.
You're doing all the right things, but - if you're in the shape I was in last week - you also need to sleep. I slept for England last week; pity it's not an Olympic event, I'd have romped home with a gold.

Break a leg in the Easter music. It will pass...this morning, the first day in the last ten that I can honestly say I felt reasonably well, I had the most brilliant sequence of ideas for Aurelia #4. Also it occurred to me I'll give one of the characters a stinking cold at some point if I need them uncharacteristically slow or impaired. Just have to find out how the Romans would have described such things...

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