I read the Sorcha update thread on the Help forum when Mudcat was down:

Gang,

As some of you know, Sorcha posted a "Sorcha Sick" thread a few days ago at Mudcat, saying Thanksgiving would be cancelled, that she would be offline a few days, and was sick with staph in lungs AND influenza. (http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=64754)

Then I heard about a virulent and deadly form of the influenza running amok in Colorado (100 miles south of her), and got VERY worried...

I spoke with Brian, her husband, late this afternoon (Eastern US time). She does indeed have the nasty strain of influenza I had heard about, BAD stuff. She had thought she would be able to recuperate better at home, but he said he had found it necessary to hospitalize her (vomiting, etc., very dehydrated, partly from the medications). He said he had just brought her home this afternoon, to resume recuperation, and she is doing better. But I am still very, very worried. The meds are working on the staph, but since ifluenza is viral, she has to fight it off her own small, tired, chronically-stressed self.

Brian has agreed to let me know if she takes another bad turn. So now, no-news will be just no-news, not cause for increased concern.

love,

~Susan

Brian is a wise man! This is nothing to fool with! Take it easy and you will get well soon.

SRS