I guess it finally wore off
As a general rule, I don’t get sick. At least not very often, and when I do get sick it tends to be mild and short lived. This is in contrast to my wife and kids who get sick at fairly normal intervals and at what you might call normal severities.
One popular theory for my good health is that the Army gave me some super-immunization. I suppose it’s possible. When I was in the Army, they gave us immunizations for EVERYTHING. They just put us all in a line with our sleeves rolled up an walked down the line with a pneumatic injector. I don’t even know most of what they were immunizing us against (although I do remember yellow fever being mentioned at one point). So who knows, maybe they did give me some whiz-bang super injection. It would make sense - a sick soldier is not an effective soldier.
So what’s the point of saying all of that? If they did give me a super-shot, I guess it finally wore off, because I’ve been running a fever for five days now and have one heck of a deep chest cough.
The irony is that the last time I had a case of the flu this severe was when I was in the Army and they made us take flu shots. That was back when they still were using live virus in the flu shots and I did NOT react well to that. I haven’t had a flu shot in 15 years, but I’m thinking maybe it’s time to start taking them again.
Ugh. I hate being sick.