and again i say "NO"!!!

i'm getting a cold. no doubt about it. woke this morning with a dry hacking cough, stopped up nose, scratchy throat, headache, losing my voice (shut up, already - this is NOT funny!!!)

i have a baby to go see. i have a new baby to go and take care of at the end of the week.

screw work. i can work while i'm sick. i've done that bazillions of times.

at the newspaper where i worked we advertising reps had a mantra enforced by management - 'you can call in dead, but you have to train your replacement first'.

ah, but it is september. that seems to be my month for bronchitis, if memory serves.

crapdammit. and all those other expletives.

i'm dosing on vitamin water and vitamin c already, hoping to head this off before it really gets hold. garlic and onion soup, that's what i need to make today. yeah, that'll do it.

and my new mommy friend, bonita, needs me to help. she's having a c-section and her hubby has to work a good part of the week and there's no one else. we have another friend who's going to be there when she can, but she has 2 young daughters, no husband, and is in school.

and i wanted to hold and smell and snuggle and kiss that baby, too.

waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

that's all. i just wanted to whine a bit. not about the fact that i'm sick, but about the fact that i maybe won't get to see baby isabella for some time.

can you spare a couple of healing thoughts, please? i don't care about me, but for bonita's sake??? and little isabella???

tyvm, hugs, but no smoochies today. i don't want to infect anyone else.