Top 10 Ways to Survive the Flu

1. Have it line up over Christmas Break, as visiting family can do all the cooking, chore-keeping, and kid-caring.
2. Be married to a teacher, who has two weeks off to serve your every whiny need.
3. Powerade Zero - Grape! The only drink that doesn't taste like cough medicine.
   
4. Mucinex every 4 hours (with Tylenol or Motrin, on a rotating schedule, until the fever breaks, which took 8 days for me!).
5. Layers of clothing, including fuzzy warm socks.
   
6. Layers of blankets, especially a snuggie.
   
7. Cough drops and peppermints and butterscotches.
8. Three pillows, minimum, for propping in bed to battle the cough.
9. A laptop! Great for surfing, listening to sermons, and passing the time!
10. A perfectly timed Christmas gift of a new graphics program to occupy the non-fever, still fatigued and cough-filled days of recovery. See, Christmas is really the perfect time to get the flu.
    

I pray you survive the flu by never getting it. Wash those hands. Avoid stress. Change you life to get good sleep. Practice saying, "No." This has been a wake up call for me. Things will be changing, as soon as I am strong enough to get out of bed and get back to life.

By His Grace, more than ever,