Day 140: A Steady Cold Drip

We are in semi quarantine. Much like the good idea/bad film Quarantine we find ourselves locked away, dramatically fighting off a vicious virus and wondering if we will ever make it out of this alive.

Atom was the first to fall to what appears to be some kind of super cold. Being as this is his first cold/illness we are all scrambling to make sense of the situation.  If only his wee little vocal chords were working in cahoots with his frontal and temporal lobes surely the case could be cracked with some certainty.

I will try to walk us through the series of events here in an genealogical manner in hopes that someone else might be able to pick up the sleuthing for us after I surely succumb to this unstoppable force of evil.  My wife has already fallen (and we all know my immune system is no match for hers) and that can only mean one thing: I am next.

Day 135:
Atom went to a family party
- He begins to act cranky while listening to pleasantries and platitudes
- We note his uncomfortableness as a by product of the East cost humidity that assaults ones skin from roughly 8 months out of the year
- We give him a bath and forget about it

Day 136:
He once again seems "off". He is basically phoning in his tummy time.
- We shower him with love and talk to him endlessly, asking him repeatedly what is wrong.

Day 137:
- Next day he wakes up with copious amounts of dried alien mucus all over his face. Alarmed we search for other signs of alien abduction. We find nothing.
 - Our only option is to go to the doctor and see if they have any ancient magic that can rid him of this germ-atic invasion
- Armed with steam baths and facial tissue we set out to tackle this unholy intrusion together.

Day 138:
- More of the same. My courageous in-laws, throwing all caution to the wind, help watch him during the day. We continue to ask him repeatedly "What is wrong?" He is still not talking.
- 3 days in and more heart breaking confusion on his face than any of can handle and the now Sharon starts to show symptoms. Their combined moaning is enough to melt an ice cube.

Day 139:
- Wheezing reins supreme in our house. Atom is utterly befuddled by his predicament.
- He has brief moments of cleared passages but then quickly falls back into mucus mania.
- My wife has somehow not only claimed all of Atom's symptoms but added some new ones to mix

Patient Zero has yet to come out the shadows and reveal him/herself to us. We are too deep at this point to maintain our constant mental line ups of all of the suspicious customers that have come in and out of our life in the last week or so. But know this...(Sneeze)....we WILL find YOU and we will make sure you get your COMEUPPANCE.