The allergy-flu? ...bedsick. Trying to figure out if this puff stuffy nose is a cold, or an allergy. Allergies don’t usually come until April for me. DayQuil was like poppin’ a tic tac on steroids, Claritin-D worked for maybe an hour. {Sneeze}  Benadryl, made me sleepy-groggy. Gooey clear water is seeping from my nose, and I have a tissue farm infested around my bed. Four deadlines Monday, three Wednesday, and one Friday, and did I mention I have to figure out what I’m teaching for my senior lecture in June?

Warm tears fill up my pink eyes and then I cough. My baby dog loves me so much I saw her eating one of my snotty tissues. Tearing it apart and making neat little piles all over the room. I want someone to love me like that, to not give up when it gets hard. Well, maybe not exactly like snotty tissues. But maybe, not having to get my achy legs out of bed to fix my own tea. How lovely is it to be bundled in bed, when there are so many bigger things I need to do?