Hantavirus...NOT

I initially tried to post this on the 21st...but it
wouldn't post. The week referenced is Nov 16 - 22nd.

This past week was a busy one, lots of social interaction.

I had coffee with Jo on Monday and lunch with Suzanne on
Tuesday. The Ochs came for dinner on Wednesday. Robert
went to his Cosmology group Thursday evening. Vernon
came up on Monday to bring me 20# of soy beans and
later he came me a huge sack of lemons that his frined,
Danny, brought from Arizona.

I made Andean stew with two cups of the soy beans.

On Friday I felt terrible. I thought my arthritis had
suddenly hit me really hard. During the night I was
awakened by a vicious headache and fever and knew it
wasn't arthritis. What I was afraid of was that I
had Hantavirus from cleaning out the garden shed
two weeks earlier. Either that or I had the flu.

I called my doctor's office and the on-call doctor
told me to go to urgent care, so we did. I saw
Dr. Watts who was very nice and verified with a
nose smear that I did not have flu. He clearly
knew very little about Hantavirus; I had read all
the information the CDC put out so knew more than
he, none of it good. He allowed as how he didn't
know what I had, but there was nothing he could do.
I should take Naproxen and Tylenol for the pain and
hope for the best. He wished me luck as he left
the room. I NEVER had a doctor wish me luck before.
Needless to say I was not reassured. However, on
Sunday I was light headed and very lethargic, but
the fever was gone. Today I feel fine. So, TG,
I don't have Hantavirus; just some weird thing that
was virulent, but short-lived.

I canceled taking Ariel today, but hope to have her
tomorrow. We have turkeys to build out of pine cones.
And Robert found a site with new games on-line.