How did I spend my Super Bowl Sunday? Well, I was stuck in the emergency room for most of the day. I’d been suffering from back pain for over a week and thought that it may have been just a back strain because I’d started hitting the gym heavy the past couple of weeks, but it turned out that I had a severe kidney infection.

So after a 4 hour stay in the ER, along with a shot of morphine and Valium, which I might say was quite a euphoric ride, I was released with a prescription for antibiotics and put on a liquid diet for the week. Liquid diet…….yuck! Soup, cranberry juice, white grape juice and jello.

Unable to drive myself home, my mother drove me home from the hospital.  And after she’d made sure that I was tucked safely in bed, she received a call on her cell from my brother. He was sick as well, so she had double duty with two grown ass kids. She rushed him to the clinic, thinking that they’d only be there maybe a couple of hours, but once they got there, there were 50 people ahead of my brother.

Everybody in that place had the flu, including my brother, who’s temp had spiked to 105º. And get this……………he’d already had two flu shots to help prevent catching the flu. Guess that didn’t work. So after a 5 hour wait at the clinic, he saw the physician and received his prescription. Extremely dehydrated, he was also put on a liquid diet for a couple of days.

Thank God for mothers. I don’t think she’s seen either of us sick at the same time since we were in middle school. She was our savior on yesterday, shuttling from the hospital, to the clinic, to the grocery store, playing nursemaid and cooking homemade soup. And there’s nothing better than soup from dear old Mom.