Patient X

Any sign of the disease must be wiped out …

On the way down to Atlanta on Friday, I may have caught the sniffles when the weather changed as we cut through the blowing rain. When we got to Atlanta, I felt a bit tired from the drive and having woken up around 5 AM. I took a healthy dose of Grandad’s cough syrup (read Wild Turkey 101), but I still felt a bit out of sorts on Saturday. With all the SEC Tournament and tornadic activity going on over the weekend, I soldiered on to help win the Cranium Championship along with my cousin Kristin. I felt a bit better on Sunday. We laid around all morning and then went to the Vortex for burgers and wings at lunch. I was tired, but in decent shape at the start of the ride home. We stopped for gas and Sonic drinks in Dalton and then I let the hammer down the rest of the way home. When I got home, I took a dose of Nyquil, 2 Tylenol PM and a multivitamin before going to bed. I didn’t feel great when my alarm went off, so I shut it off and went back to bed. I woke up a little over an hour later, took a nice long shower and came on into work. It has been a very long day at work today. I still have a sore throat which I am relieving with Halls cough drops. I also have a runny nose and a slight fever. I’m planning to go home and take some medicine before heading off to bed. More than likely, I will not be at work in the morning. So to anyone that gets sick from this weekend, I apologize. Hopefully, the large amounts of alcohol circulating among the group kept everyone well.