Day 12...

...and finally feeling better. About 50% better in fact. Today I was able to play my keyboard for a while (not serious playing, since people were around, but enough to get it out of my system for the time being), go grocery shopping at several local stores - then come home and blog about it on my Cheap'n'Easy Low Carb blog, and prepare a nice supper of meatloaf, fauxtatoes, and salad. Tomorrow I want to take my house back from the clutter that has accumulated while I was down!

And this recovery isn't a moment too soon! I'd gone for 9 days without ever leaving the house, and only rarely leaving my recliner or bed. My birds got by on a lick and a promise, both in diet and in cagekeeping.

While I'm really thankful for my recovery, I'm feeling really badly for my wonderful husband, who did so much for me while I was down. Because now he's got the same flu that I had, and he has it bad. He's so miserable, and I know just how badly he feels, having just been where he is. The only thing that I'm thankful for is that he got started on the Tamiflu within the first 18 hour of his symptoms...so I'm hopeful that he will have a short run of it.

My seasonal job has ended for the year, I've got lots of plans (fall cleaning and reorganization that will probably take us straight through the winter!) and things I want to do around my home, and of course am looking forward to getting more hours babysitting that adorable, funny, smart grandbaby of mine, and lots of time with my great kid Casey too!