From COVID Directly Into Flu

We finally had our family Christmas celebration at our house over this past weekend.  We had to reschedule it because Sheila and I had COVID through Christmas.  Unfortunately, almost every one of us who attended this last party is now sick with a terrible case of the flu.  My guess is that every single one of us will be sick within another couple of days.  

I feel miserable.  I felt rather lousy yesterday too but, by last night, I was feeling pretty miserable.  Now I'd say I'm feeling overwhelmingly miserable.  Sheila is about a half day or a full day behind me.  

I'm not sure which is worse...  the flu or COVID...  COVID lasts forever and it's still quite painful but this flu is brutal at this point.  Everything hurts.  I have chest congestion.  I have a massive headache.  I have a painful sore throat.  My sinuses are burning.  I'm dizzy, nauseated, and generally feeling miserable.  I suspect this won't last longer than a week or two though whereas COVID lasts for months whenever I get it and it always makes my breathing far worse.  Ironically, even though I have a lot of chest congestion at the moment, my breathing is far better than during months of COVID.  

I know we all have the flu because Ellie and Whitney tested positive for Flu-A and our symptoms are exactly the same.  This Christmas celebration was definitely not worth it.  We should have skipped it altogether.  Gifts could have waited until a safe time for each family rather than trying to get everyone together at the same time.  I'm really sick and tired of getting terribly sick every single time we get everyone together at the same time.  I don't ever want to do this again.

I need to go lay down again....