Saturday, February 20, 2010

Allo maman bobo ! / What's up doc?

A l'heure où la grippe H1N1 se fait de plus en plus discrète, il fallait que quelqu'un se dévoue pour assurer un chiffre d'affaire honorable à la pharmacie du coin en ce début 2010 ! Nous avons donc succombé à la pression et à tour de rôle sommes partis nous réfugier sous les draps en attendant que l'orage intérieur ne passe...
C'est Ben qui a été frappé en premier avec un mal mystérieux qui l'a cloué au lit la journée du mardi avec de la fièvre pendant environ 24h. Les paris étaient lancés : grippe ? palu ? crise d'hypocondrie aiguë ? Ce n'est que le vendredi matin, alors que les maux de tête avaient enfin lâché prise, que le diagnostic est tombé : ANGINE ! Des noeuds avaient décidé de faire un sit-in dans la gorge. Du coup : visite chez le médecin, stock d'antibios et de vitamines et concoctage de bonne soupe aux légumes...
Gil, dans un élan de solidatiré marital, a eu un petit mal de tête toute la semaine... mais la plus grande marque de son soutien ultime s'est manifesté le vendredi soir sous la forme d'une bonne indigestion...
Ce week-end nous avions l'intention d'aller fêter les 25 ans d'un ami à l'Université de Sambaina... mais on a fini par faire la fête avec les médocs...

We've been hearing less of the Swine Flu lately, so someone had to put himself out to ensure the turnover of the local pharmacy. In turns, we gave in and ended up in bed, waiting for the internal storm to pass...
Ben was the first one to be struck by a mysterious illness which kept him confined in bed all day Tuesday with fever for about 24 hours. Was it flu? malaria? an acute crisis of hypochondria? It was only on Friday morning, when the headache had finally let go, that the diagnosis had fallen: TONSILLITIS!! A bunch of knots had decided to do a sit-in in the throat... So we headed to the doctor's, got a stock of antibiotics and vitamins and made some good vegetable soup...
Gil, in a burst of marital solidarity, had a small headache all week ... but the greatest mark of her support was demonstrated on Friday evening in the form of a good ol' indigestion ...
This weekend we had planned to go to the University of Sambaina to celebrate the 25th birthday of a friend... but we ended up partying with the tablets...

2 comments:

Asun said...

Oh no!!! So sorry to hear that!!
But if you must know, I wanted to be supportive too and I've been horribly sick myself with, I'm guessing, a tummy virus which let me visiting Mr. Toilet more than I would have liked to, with fever and a horrible body ache!!
That started on Tuesday and it's only now, Saturday evening, that I'm starting to be a bit better :((
Mariola and Josu (the tall one) have had a gesture of solidarity too and have joined us :))

I hope this coming week is better for everybody!!

Take good care of yourselves!!

Love & miss you!!!!

Asunzita :)

Gil said...

Our new flat mate, Katie (will tell you more about her later), has also joined in the effort and has been having aches of all sorts... Head, and Shoul, uh no Stomach, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes... (I got a little carried away, not Toes...).
Yep Asun, we hope next week we'll see better days :-D
Take care everyone !!