Echo virus?

Another bad night. I think I've been fighting off a virus for the past week and when I got up my head felt as if it was stuffed with cotton wool and my nose was running copiously. Clare received a text from N G Motors after breakfast to say the car was ready for collection, so I caught the 61 bus, followed by the 11 from outside the city library. as far as Adamsdown. I got off the bus one stop early un-necessarily. A walk in the cold air revealed that the virus is still developing. Thankfully a new mirror only cost me fifty quid. The car's low fuel warning light lit up, so my journey home went by way of Tesco Extra's petrol station on Western Avenue. 

I wasn't happy about my level of alertness and standard of driving on busy roads. It was an ordeal I could have done without. Clare admitted that she was also feeling unwell with similar symptoms. The thought of driving to Kenilworth in this condition made me apprehensive, so we decided not to go to Rhiannon's birthday party. Fortunately, Clare was able to cancel the hotel booking without penalty and let the family know. It turns out Kath and Anto are also under the weather with a similar bug. It's a hazard of work with crowds of small children for them. I think I've been fighting off this bug for a week, well before we went to 'Dance in the Dark' on Monday.

I went out for a walk after lunch but fluey aches and pains, left me feeling debilitated, so I returned home with three quarters of my daily step quota completed. There was nothing else I needed to do and spent the rest of the day idling and binge watching episodes of 'Virdee', waiting for the toxic effects of the virus to leave my system. I checked previous blogs to find out when I last had these nasty fluey symptoms. It was just eight weeks ago, at the end of the year. Kath and Anto have had a similar experience. GPs talk about it being an 'echo virus'. Is it exactly the same strain or a very similar variant that can be caught afresh or is it something the immune system is still struggling to get rid of? Did my annual 'flu injection last November actually work? I'm fit for my age and eat healthily, so a repeat infection after only two months is rather a set back. Now it's time for early bed again.