You could hold a ceremony, punkfolkrocker, for your comfy T-shirt.
With a ritual incantation of
Well Done Thou Good and Faithful Servant or some such.
Will the T-shirt recover?
It's a relief to hear that you are recovering.

The 'flu even extended its shadow in the US over the upcoming Fifty-Second Super Bowl.

One of those New England Patriots is a Mississippi native named Malcom [that's the correct spelling] Brown. A very different sort from Tom Brady. Brown's is a hard-luck story, he was raised away from his parents because family circumstances were so, er, messed up. To get into the NFL and the NE team he had many a hurdle to rise above. So the press, and the public, follow Brown eagerly, because his story has an emotional pull to it.

When the Pats left en masse for Minnesota, Brown stayed here for a few days longer. He was having "flu-like symptoms." Nobody wanted the other football players to catch what Brown had. Well, whatever Brown was suffering from, he took the doctors' orders and got several days of rest.

Brown has since been flown to Minnesota and is practicing with the Pats rather as though nothing had happened. He got the doctors' blessing, that the rest cure had had the desired result, and that he had got past any contagious stage and was sufficiently recovered, and wouldn't make anyone else ill.