Doh! The Flu

Man, I've never had it, except maybe once when I was a kid according to my mom and it sucks. It hit me quick and hard on Tuesday night last week and I woke up on Wednesday wishing for someone to put me out of my misery. Now my concept of the flu is that you're going to be feeling miserable for a few weeks. However, now a days there is actually a prescription you can get from your doctor to stop the flu called Tamiflu, as long as you get it early enough in the flu. That got me feeling pretty good in about 4 or 5 days and now I just have the cough and nasal congestion that started on Monday this week. I'm working my ColdBusters from Jamba Juice and drinking tons of fluids, taking ecchinasea (no idea how to spell that one), going to bed early and staying close to my cube at work. This has been helping and today I started to feel the congestion beginning to break. I'm going to start back up with walking and some jogging and hopefully at least go out with the group on Saturday for running. I was bummed to have missed the 5k last weekend, but, what do you do? If you've got the flu, you have to listen to your body, right?