Sick Puppy

So it started with the dog being sick the day after Thanksgiving. We have no idea what's was wrong with him. But he's on 3 different antibiotics and now prednisone. BTW and FYI, the vet says that the dog can get the flu AND meningitis and that we can catch those things from him.  Then my husband got sick. That lasted 4 days. Then JW got sick. He went to the doctor. Note to self. Make an appointment with the grown up doctor for him. He's 18. He probably shouldn't be going to the pediatricians office anymore. She gave him Tamiflu. Did you know that Tamiflu is a PIA to get out of the package. Here you are all sick and now you have to wrestle with the Tamiflu packaging resulting in crushed capsules. Then I started to feel like crap today. Late in the afternoon. I have been drinking OJ with powdered vitamin C from Trader Joe's. That always does the trick. Not so much this time. Must be a strong bug. I stopped at the market and got 2 chickens to make soup. $1.49 a lb. I also stopped at Aldi's and the chickens there are .89 a lb.

Got the chickens home. Put them in  pots. Used Andrea Watman's (Zabar's) recipe. Jewish penicillin. and yum. What sucks about being the mom is that I have to make my own chicken soup (although really as the mom I'm technically not supposed to get sick) and then I have to clean everything up afterwards.

My hands are raw from washing them so much. I am slathering calendula cream all over them and wearing white gloves everywhere. One thing that's nice is now having my own computer. Now that JW graduated high school in June he has his own. The keyboard is a germ infested petri dish but now the germs are mine all mine.

I should go to sleep. Early day tmw. It's Christmas time. I can't be sick.