“OLD: SANTA got me
good. this year. .

About 6 p. m, on
Christmas Day, [, started
getting a tickle in my ‘craw.
By the time | reached my

bed; -shortly before mid-

- night, the tickle had turned
into -‘a..:raw:. wound, | as
‘though: a Syrian ; Black
Slave -. torture - ‘prod ‘had
been.. jammed into’. my
throat.

For the next ‘three days:'I

was out of action. Mainly. °.
laid..around, sucking loz-
enges, popping megadoses .

of vitamin Cas. well..as
every, kind: of:cough medi-
_ cine I-could find, feeling so
{weak I. could’ ‘barely lift.a
mug of eggnog braced with

‘Tum t6, my. lips. There were,
‘the “chills, atid “the * runs, :
plugged: nostrils, dizziness, .

the full catastrophe.. -

- 1 could ‘hardly:, croak ‘a's

word,’ ate
~It was great, ina way.
“Tt: had-” been: an: "exe
hausting. couple. of weeks,

more~ or. : tess
‘ pertecthy,: until the. very last
if

was unwrapped,“ S.the:,

Bob Hunter

e strictly personal e

‘defence’ systems seem- to

give up, exactly as though
they knew it didn't matter

any longer. -

It seems 1 am_ being

_ ALLOWED the luxury of
: getting sick.
~ 1 have. noticed on ‘long.

voyages that the most dan-

gerous. part is the journey.
home. People get, sloppy...

Their. reflexes aren't-.as

: keyed-up any: more,. They.

aren’t as alert as they were
when - they were outward

bound.

It.is-a Variation on the
"same ‘theme — mission ac-
complished, ‘you can relax..

‘But in the relaxing, you let

your . guard: down, You’
“immediately become. vul-
nerable to illness or (maybe
the. same thing) accident. .

‘ prone.,
Still, here. is ‘something

‘salutary about some forms:

kness, Flu, I think, is
th disease. ‘of:our- time
because it is brought“ on, as
~much - as .

since.
stressful too. |

* to yen Nonckat off: you
. feet, forced to lie down. To’
: take a little holiday, as sit”

‘the tossing and turning and.
“sweating: and. Shivering, I

tions. No need ie even’ ‘ren

a videotape.’ My. feveris
br oo

whole tlevelss is - just a:
° “holographic dream in God’s”

' ttpbeat

; my own, I didn't know what to expect...
But [ll tell you, [never felt: more at,ease...and
eT cant even begin to tell you | the things I did.
Infact, I cant think: ofa single minute of

oe Be met a really

inch: of peopl fiom New

~ York and we did absoiutely everything. I

even went windsurfing. Can you believe it?

And the food was just out of this world. You ..

remember. that old commercial...

“I cant be- .

eve f dite’ the. whole thing??: Well, there”
_ were afew times I felt like that. Hard to be.
* Heve,. but the last few days tat Iwas, there,
: ~Tpust had:te take @' break. «
- So Tlazed in the sun till I got my breath back.
‘I can't believe. was ever-nervous about going on: ;
avacation myself. But Ihave to admit, ut would
“be more fun ufyou: came along ‘next year.

Mage Mexico or the
oh, West,

Club Med

Doing what comes Naturally:

anything; nee
stress... You: can’t. conibat’
‘stress very: well by. straining’

. against it, - “us

of: “drugs: |
‘about,all sorts ‘of parts 0
_your body you'd forgott

I was: tou’ feeble to take
notes. I mean, there was
one hallucination where I
was talking man to man
withthe Pope! 1 wish I
could remember what we

were talking about. I'm

sure it was great stuff,
There are: ‘certain’. ob-
vious advantages to illness,
at least in the.short term.
Several
sary. social ‘obligations are
suddenly miraculously

wiped : from ‘the. calendar:.
“‘He’s: got the flu.: Sorry.’
Nobody’ wants ‘a: leper. to,

come. visiting, do they? *.
By. fai; nomy. ‘mind, ‘the
ti

sick like’ that’ is not being:
able to -answer, the’ phone.”

in your delirium, you can
it. rit zing. Probably

passing: through town: vand

won't have ‘another chance

to. visit: for: 50 years. : a
“But... you’re.: SICK, “you

see, and somebody answers:

and says:. “Sorry. He's
wiped right out. Dying.”’

“It’s too bad that sickness.

HURTS. | .don’t like. the
pain: part’ at all. “And:
goes on for‘ more: than’ a

few days, it becomes a'tiv-:
we - all

ing nightmare, ~
know.
A'short hit of- being sick,

though: that'can be good’ |.
for -you,, i’m convinced, °

Slows. you" “right down, it
does. Lets: -you drift.;Makes
it: ‘legal, to. do‘a whole ‘pile
Reminds. yo

“And - when it’s 5 over: you

Cys

absolutely ‘fieces-"

Cough, ‘gap, hack, |.
groan. Boy, what fun! a

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