You don't appreciate just how good it feels to be alive and feeling normal until you've gone through a spell where you don't. Saturday I was seriously wondering how I would get through the week, since this flu had hit The Girl and Sister #2 so hard. Yesterday, I was starting to feel more normal and my temp dropped back down to where it is supposed to be. Today I actually feel alive again.

To some degree, I'm grateful for my morning coffee that gave me a little push each morning. I'm also grateful for the essential oils that I put into a mug of boiling water and sniffed three times a day (rosemary, lavender, eucalyptus and peppermint; later I added thyme and tea tree to the mix). Add my echinacea tea and throat lozenges to lots of bed rest, and something did the trick.

Now, hopefully, I won't come down with a rebound bout.