A Plague developed at the day job, which then traveled home. I have never been this sick before and was out for four of five workdays (the one day I was there was only part of the day). I have never used that much sick time ever in my life, and I've had colds and flus.
This flu, though, was devastating, and I was vaccinated. Luckily, the kids seemed to get through it rather quickly (good that they didn't suffer much).
My wife and I, on the other hand, have been wrecked. We're still recovering after a week in. There is a possibility, from our research and info from the CDC, that this was H1N1. It was a fairly virulent strain that swept through my colleagues and took out most of our department.
The one day I was in, the place was like a ghost ship. Those who weren't down with illness warned off the rest of us with Lysol, or were holed up somewhere hoping that isolation would save them.
Needless to say, very little writing done this week. For the entire week, I logged 639, down from nearly 4,000 the week before.
This illness was one bad motherfucker.
