The Germs, the germs. Germs Revisited.

 Go Here to See a Sunday Morning Story on Hand Washing…wait through the ad.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9TV61e8gTI

I did not get a flu shot this year. I heard there are three strains blended together in this year’s injection. Last year I had my first flu shot ever and it hurt like crazy and I had the shakes and chills afterwards, a rare but not unheard of side effect.

A few weeks ago, my darling daughter brought the three year old over before she went to work and mentioned he had a fever. Okay, the kid doesn’t drool any more but I still wanted to slather him in hand sanitizer. I hoped that having put at least a half century of cold and flu germs into my immune system would protect me.

Last week, my sixteen year old, can anyone believe he is already sixteen, complained of a sore throat and other things. This is a fellow who turns away medication in the event of fractures. I knew my chances of ducking the flu were falling.

Cold-eeze makes a zinc cough drop that I believe in. I think it zaps the little germs by coating them with the equivalent of the white pasty stuff you put on a baby’s raw bottom. Don’t tell me anything different, because I want to believe.

The best thing about being sick is that I can still show up in chat rooms, answer my emails, get some work done on behalf of some very cool authors and publishers and not once come into the kind of contact that will spread anything more major than a computer virus.

By the way, my computer is clean. New. Protected.

Don’t forget to drop by Eternal Press and buy my book. The first three chapters are free over at Amazon. Kindle users know about the sample books and it makes it so, maybe too darned easy to one click and buy a book.

My book title is If I Should Die, by the way, I nearly posted this without mentioning the title! 

Till next time, don’t touch anything sharp and pass the hand sanitizer, please.