Sneezing and Snoozing

As a teacher of miniature people I am more prone to ailments such as the cold, the flu and ‘tummy bugs’ than most.  Up until I arrived in Nigeria I thought I had an immune system of steel.  I have had so many germs and bugs make their way into my system that I believed I was no more susceptible.  I am not a ‘sicky’ person.   In fact in the last five years I have had to take no time off work at all.

HA!  Since starting this term in Reception with my darling 23 munchkins (4 year olds) I have been struck down by no less than three separate illnesses; two tummy bugs and now the dreaded cold.  Being ill here is rubbish.  I have no un/underemployed friends who can come round to care for me, no elderly relatives or kindly neighbours to make me soup or cakes or dinner and my TV keeps switching off. 

I have taken two days off work so far.  The first was spent in bed – actually sleeping and sneezing but the second was spent on the couch, mostly being bored.  I’m rubbish at being ill; I need someone to keep me company and someone to make me food and someone to buy me more tissues.