Have you ever had an experience in which your body has warded off an illness until you do something you have to do? This happened to me on Saturday evening. Earlier in the day, I played music with the Jack Antler Old Time band at Neilson Creative Centre during the John and Bruce Parsons art exhibition. I felt fine during the performance, but on the way home, I was clobbered with flu-like symptoms. When I say clobbered, I mean full on fever and chills, achy everything, vomiting – the works – which gradually morphed into common cold type symptoms. I feel as if I’ve been in a fog since Saturday evening. I was able to eat a little last night and this morning, and, in spite of my nose running like a tap, and a bit of a cough, I feel much better this morning.