Uninvited Guest

That pesky little stomach flu bug.

I just got rid of him.

Usually I like guests, I really do. But this one was not only uninvited, but overstayed it's non-welcome...almost a week! He had been going around from what I hear, from uninvited place to uninvited place, but my understanding is that he only stayed a day or two...Needless to say, last week, while visiting my little friend Caleb, who is three, he (Caleb) plopped himself right down on my lap to snuggle with me as I met with his family and team of therapists. I was touched. It was sweet. Caleb and I had a strong bond I walways felt, until...it happened. Caleb, threw up everywhere. Including on me (hair and all). I work with children, so this sort of thing has happened to me before. I survived, or so I thought, until the next day when I realized that Caleb had oh-so-generously shared his little visiting flu bug with me and I too was unable to keep anything down (I apologize for sharing) for almost an entire week. This is a long time, or so people kept telling me. Calebs flu came and went in 24 hours, as did nearly everyone else I heard about who "caught" the same bug, but my uninvited guest must have been quite at home because he stayed and kept me on nothing but water for the week.

But now he is gone, THANKFULLY. And I can eat again (Hooray!). I love food, so I am sure it won't take me more than a week to re-find those five pounds I somehow lost while my uninvited guest was here.

It's just nice to have the place back to myself again.