Hundreds of kids are sick right about now. The nurses in our doctor’s office were not at all surprised to see yet another one, our kid, our bass guitar player, showing up with those flu symptoms.

Our doctor, however, is a brilliant diagnostician. I think maybe Gregory House was designed on this man’s abilities. He determined immediately that it was not the flu (I think because of the tonsils, but he didn’t go into detail and I’m not that good with medical details). It is either strep or mono (both quick and easy verbal abbreviations for diseases with considerably longer names). The strep test is already underway; I have to arrange for the mono test, but the lab closed early today, apparently not due to the snow storm. I did get a bit of editing done while sitting in the doctor’s office.

The snow was the cause of the school closures, which means that despite staying home sick he did not miss a day of school.

I missed a substantial amount of work time, first with the trip to the doctor, then running around trying to get the lab work done, then picking up medicine. So I’m behind schedule for a Friday, and tired to boot, but I’ll get through the rest of the night, I think.

–M. J. Young