In like a lion, out like a lamb. That's what the old saying is. But today is beautiful. Can you believe it is still winter with gorgeous blue sunny skies and no snow on the ground?Is this right? I know I have been praying that the weather will cooperate for my recital so that people will be able to travel without problem, but this is amazing!
If it keeps up, people will just want to be outside and not inside listening to music on a Sunday afternoon. Ah, everything in perspective. Of course, the temperature fluctuations are wreaking havoc with health. The coughing thing is making rounds. It is hitting some very hard. And repeatedly. Just when they think they have thrown the cold, it suddenly turns into bronchitis. And when they get help for that and are finally coming up for air, they have pneumonia. And after battling that, they get either a broken rib from so much coughing or pleurisy, just as bad if not worse.
Doctors are calling this the 100 day cough. That's what they used to call pertussis or whooping cough. I remember when Michael had that. Since his immune system was compromised, the immunization didn't take and the poor little tyke - all of about 6 years old - begged me with tears in his eyes to take him to the Emergency Room again and again, convinced that someone would figure out how to help him stop coughing.
Back then there were no super duper cough medicines. He just had to wait it out. My heart was so torn for his agony. As it is now for people going through this thing. I wish I could wave a magic wand and they would be over it. As soon as I hear that anyone is starting to cough, I immediately suggest they go to the doctors and head off anything serious. I suppose the doctors don't appreciate that.
Well, March may not be coming in like a lion weatherwise, but it certainly is healthwise. Here's hoping health improves for everyone continually until by the end of March this stuff is done with!
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