Mater Dei

So finally the flu has caught me too, with a vengeance. I haven't felt so ill in a long time. And I keep thinking of Mater Dei which I have never visited, and of how I do not want to be a guest at. Cocky name Mater Dei, I don't care if each ward has it's own TV, or if patients can connect to the Internet, I do not care if it is like a five star hotel, I hate hotels anyway. I do not like living in 5 star service when I am away from my living room, my bedroom, my bathroom and my cats. And of course my dogs. I like home. But every time the common cold comes to visit me I am scared. My lungs are not exactly in good shape right now and that could mean bronchitis which will secure me a place at Mater Dei. But I'm not going, I'm staying right here stocking up on antibiotics as if they were bread and butter. My head hurts, my bones hurt (I guess they're there embedded somewhere), everything is just dreamy..... f***ing fever. I'm thinking though, after everyone was so sick and I still survived, the flu comes when I lower my resistance. Flu or common cold, if it's that common then why has nobody found a cure yet? My only fault, having missed the flu jab this year. Will not do it again I promise. Anyway better call it a night and go into my bed, which might be less of a state of the art bed then the ones at Mater Dei, but it's good enough for me.