Kaylie: A Social Hazard.

So, I woke up this morning with a sore throat, upper respiratory congestion, a cough, and fatigue. And I immediately thought, "Hello, Yearly Sinus Infection! What took you so long!?" But when I shared these symptoms with my sister (who is in her third year of nursing school), she flipped and persistently, but calmly urged me to get a swine flu swab! Now, we were at lunch at this point, so if I had been inoculated with this potentially deadly strain of the influenza virus, I was putting the entire restaurant at risk and therefore a social hazard. 

Amber leaned back every time I coughed and looked around the restaurant to make sure no one heard it/saw it. Then, I began to get paranoid that maybe I DID have the swine flu! I would have to be quarantined for 7 days! And people would throw tomatoes at my house and put a sign up that said  "Stay away! She's contagious!"...and no one would let me keep their children ever again! Ok clearly, I mildly overreacted. 

To make a long story short (though the clinic visit was not!), I have good news and I have bad news. 

Good news: No swine flu here!

Bad news: I am convinced that I sustained a brain injury from the nasal swab.