Greetings all on this day before Christmas Eve.
I’ll be working at home as it appears I should have taken my wife’s advice and gotten a flu vaccine. Woke up with a 101.7 fever and all the other common symptoms I’ve had since last week. Too bad.
If anyone has an emergency story, they can get ahold of an editor at 715-2260 or e-mail newsroom@bellinghamherald.com.
I will be trying to blog post today in between bouts of trying to get some rest. Enjoy your day!
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:22 AM
ST take care, and please do not hesitate to seek help if needed, you are in the “at risk” age group for H1N1, my friend.
AFY!!thesheepdog!!!
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:25 AM
I was under the impression, actually, AFY, that I’m just a few years past the “at-risk” stage.
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:36 AM
ST, a few years ain’t enough buffer if you ask me!
Don’t take any chances here, if there is the least bit of doubt seek help, please! I would really miss me enjoyment of giving you a hard time me friend!
Get well!!!
AFY!!thesheepdog!!!
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Get well soon, Sam! If it’s any comfort, I got the flu shot and still ended up with the creeping crud…I think I got it at the hospital while having a baby…darn hospital…they should only let well people be there.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Have your kids had a flu shot? I heard a statistic recently that nationally 1 in 6 have/have had the swine flu. That was sort of flabbergasting as I haven’t personally known anyone who has been definitely diagnosed with any flu and only 2 (who live south)who have/have had some as yet undetermined variety of flu.
Since some circulatory problems years ago (not a heart attack), I have started getting the flu shot and just got the swine flu shot this week. I know a lot of folks who are just shining this on. The folks who believe they had it describe mostly respiratory distress during the couple of weeks they felt badly. I have also wondered if I had some immunity as a result of having a case of full blown influenza back in the 60’s that, if my Mom were still alive, I might know of what variety. I just remember being really ill and missing about 3 weeks of school in the spring of 63 in N. Seattle.
May the effects on you and your family be mild and your recovery quick. What a bummer at the holidays. I will be sending you the mental equivalent of a big steaming bowl of chicken soup. Get well.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Sam, should you need an ambulance trip to the hospital, please write an article for page A2. Would be newsworthy that the government newshound is down for a few days…..
Seriously, get better soon.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Sam,
I hope it’s not the flu!
Warning signs for secondary infection include chronic fatigue, chest and or abdomen pain.
Nyquil at night helps with the fever and pain.
I hope you feel better soon!
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:49 AM
I hope you feel better for the holiday!
Take care and get well soon!
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Forget the Nyquil, it’s addictive and will have you chasing tires like AFY. Try some of the new pseudo-fed.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Hey, chasing tires is good exercize!
AFY!!thesheepdog!!!
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Just went to the walk-in clinic thanks to a drive from my wife. No flu! I have a sinus infection and am still infectious. They put me on antibiotics and I’m supposed to be “better-safe-than-sorry” not contagious in 48 hours.
Thanks to all for the well wishes. And Andy - if I end up in an ambulance, you’ll know.
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Good show young man!
Better safe than sorry! Get some rest and have a MERRY Christmas as best you can!
AFY!!thesheepdog!!!
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 PM
It’s exercise anyway.
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Mr Sam Taylor,
I assert that you have more than fulfilled your obligation to your editor and your community as a professional journalist.
You also have an affirmative obligation to your family.
I am confident that your career has intruded on your family’s fair share of your available time and attention countless times in 2009. And as a reward for that patience and support, your family now gets to celebrate a holiday and nurse you back to health at the same time.
Your best will always be good enough for your family, which is a claim that can never credibly be claimed by any newspaper editor or any reader.
Your family deserves a better Sam Taylor than they got this Christmas, and the rest of us got a better Sam Taylor than we deserve.
Until you are well and have spent some of that well time with your family, I am willing to muddle through without you. I ask the rest of the readers of the Herald, the blog particpants and the editorial staff of the Herald to do the same.
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Apex - I appreciate the kind words, that was nice. I’m not being forced to work today. But I feel well enough despite my illness to work from home, so that I don’t spread my sickness to my coworkers. I have plenty of sick time to use where I could just lay here and do nothing, and my bosses are awesome about letting us use it. But I want to work today before this Christmas season and I really am feeling up to it, despite this sinus infection.
Thanks again for the kind words and Merry Christmas!