I'm no hypochondriac

Since may we have been battling bugs in our house, about every two weeks I have been falling prey to some virus that is going around, having to be in bed for days and feeling wasted of energy aching everywhere. I feel like an arthritic 80 year old and the kind of person about which you say they catch everything.

Well I changed doctors and he ordered a blood test. The results are in people and Ross River Fever. I have it.

Yes that's right I have a tropical disease and I haven't been any further north than caloundra.

You know what they can do for me? nothing absolutely nothing except panadol and Nurofen. Well I actually feel about 60%today so that is something, maybe it's on it's way out.

I guess I can stop worrying about getting it from mozzies cause now I have had it I can't get it again. And I can also stop feeling like I shouldn't be feeling so sick, I'm not imagining it.
Derek is being tested too, we were both sitting together when I got bitten by the mozzie out in our backyard. I smacked it and killed it and got blood all over my leg. We both remembered it.

So if you do come to visit bring the tropical strength aeroguard with you. I am going to be more vigilant about tossing out pots of elliots wombat stew.