Health is something I’ve always appreciated, but not more so now that I’ve been sick with the flu.  I took all the precautions, so I thought.  I got the flu shot early.  I washed my hands before and after every patient contact.  I avoided touching my face.  When it’s your time…it’s your time I guess.  So I’ve been miserable with the flu for the last week.  At first it started off as just a respiratory thing, so I worked through that.  Lately it has turned into more of a GI thing and I just can’t stand that.  Always with that pukey feeling.  Coughing till it feels like you’d hock up a lung.  Not to mention, eating is nearly impossible.  When I do try to eat something, it just doesn’t taste like anything.  It makes me think of that curse from the movie, Pirates of the Carribean, where the crew of the Flying Dutchmen couldn’t satiate their thirst or hunger, where food turn to ash in their mouths.  Maybe hell is a little like that.