His eye is getting worse so first thing in the morning, I will be calling the vet and taking him in for a recheck. I hope I am not coughing by then, I am on the tail end of the swine flu. It’s a brutal flu folks and when I don’t feel good, the cats all know this and they crowd around me. This flu is so miserable that I can’t even have them on any part of my body or it aches. Besides, when the coughing starts, the cats get scared and split with claws fully extended. Not fun!

We are short-staffed at work and I did make an appearance but really couldn’t do my shift. I called one of the other girls to come in for me and she came at 8:00 so I could go home.

I am going to go crawl into bed right now. The docs have given me lidocaine to gargle with and it is seriously like trying to gargle with elmer’s glue! But, it does numb up the throat and stop the coughing. Silly me, I thought I needed antibiotics, but the docs say that antibiotics can make the flu worse. So it is ibuprofen and rest and lots of fluids. I am on the downward spiral of the virus and no longer contagious. I will log in again when the vet has been consulted about little Wallie