epidemic

So the crud, flu, H1N1, colds, etc. are all floating around our small area and affecting everyone! I started to feel the icky throat on Saturday and stayed home from work today. Doing my part to not contaminate everyone else. I am planning on going back to work tomorrow since I am feeling better; but may not make the whole day. We'll see. My child however, has escaped being sick so far (thank goodness) even though one of her little daycare pals has influenze A. Luckily daycare was closed the day after that was diagnosed and no one else is sick. The neighboring small town had more sick kids than kids in school today. Makes me just want to scrub myself with Clorox after I've been out in public!

Aren't I too old for this?

So on Tuesday I discovered I had chicken pox. . .at the age of 28 :) As one of my friends from school asked, how did you not get it in kindergarden like the rest of us? I wish. I always thought I was immune because I never had them when all my friends had them and we were exposed at the same times. My daughter is vaccinated against them and had no symptoms when the little guy at daycare had them a few weeks ago. The good news is I don't really have that many; probably 2 dozen and then are pretty concentrated so you only see a few if you look at me really hard--and those sort of look like bad acnce! Plus, they don't all itch like crazy, only a few are driving me crazy. The final straw is that I found I had them once I had traveled 600 miles from home! But that's a whole other story. . .