I’ve been sick for over two weeks. First it was a head cold, then I was healthy for about two days, and now it’s a lingering chest cold. I’ve been feeling a bit sorry for myself and certainly feeling a bit surrounded by germs being an elementary school teacher by day, and mom to a toddler who is in daycare by night. It’s like a cesspool of viruses are just lurking nearby… waiting to find their way into my body.
All this is pretty awful, but to make matters worse many of my co-workers and students are now battling a flu that involves 6 hours of intense barfing. I just got a call from my principal, whose daughter is in my class, saying that she had to stay home with her daughter who is sick with this latest, most terrible illness. My teaching assistant is home with her son who goes to a totally different school because he spent most of last night vomiting. I even heard someone say that they saw a kid barfing out his car window while driving home. This is more contagious than one of those zombie viruses you’d find in a horror movie. It’s like the whole city is infected! Just thinking about it makes my stomach hurt. I’m doomed!
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