Illness Strikes
in Metis
My family has been hit by the flu.
You can prepare all you want for all kinds of mishaps. But you cannot prevent them.
I’ll not be the first in the cohort to be absent due to illness. Amy won that prize. But I will have to take a couple days absence this week.
Fortunately (so far) it’s not me. Oh, I’ve been nursing my own bugs. But my stuff has been annoying sinusitis. What did the doctor call it? I think she said it was “sub-acute sinusitis”. The “sub” part is easy to diagnose. If it’s not “sub-acute” you don’t wait several weeks to go to the doctor. In any case, I did go to the doctor after the first week of the Bootcamp. That may have been incredibly fortuitous because I got the flu shot while I was there. I hope that helps protect me.
My son showed significant symptoms Sunday morning and my daughter succumbed late yesterday afternoon..
Oh yeah… I’d better call that attendance line… Come to think of it, I wonder if my wife called it yesterday…
I alerted the Metis instructors that this week might be dicey. My wife shifted some responsibilities off to coworkers and took Monday and Tuesday off. Alice suggested later this week might be feasible for me to stay home and work remotely.
There may be no “good” time to deck out of this intensive bootcamp. But this may be better than other times. The third project is just beginning. I give my first investigation this afternoon.
I just hope I don’t get the flu myself. That would be… bad… very bad.