Well Mica aren't we spoiled!    Mother is convalescing yet still manages to make you soup.  
 
I hear you on the disease vector. Rene manages to ward off whatever the disease du jour is at her school yet it manages to make its way home to me.  
 
Hope you start feeling better and good to hear Mom is up and about.  
 
Keith

Mica, sorry you are starting the new year sick. I pray that you & your Mom are 100% soon!  
 
Wolf - Thanks & I hope 2016 is a great year for you & yours as well!

Thanks, Bill - I'd love to, but a while back another medical blunder actually put her into the hospital for a month, and I inquired; it seems that without permanant damage there's no big payday, and thus no interest from the less altruistic end of your profession.  
Thanks for the thoughts, all; she's doing fairly well.
 
Peter

Mmmmmminestrone soup...hopefully that did the job for you, Mica and you are on the mend.
 
Same wishes extended to Susan and to anyone else who is not quite 100% right now - including my wife who is also getting over a flu / sinus thing.
 
Fortunately, she was not too ill to travel to Santa Rosa with me where we rang in the new year by visiting some of our favorite wineries and eateries and, most important, some dear friends who just happen to make the world's finest basses and guitars.
 
Thanks again for the hospitality, Mica and I now believe in the medicinal properties of great food & wine and exposure to high-quality sawdust - !
 
Here's hoping that the remainder of 2016 is grate for everyone!
 

Best wishes all! :-)

Happy new year to all from Scotland, traditionally the home of massive Hogmanay blowouts. Not for me though - just about recovered from a particularly nasty Norovirus that has hit Scotland quite badly. The whole family has been sick at some point since Christmas. As Mica says, it can only get better from here.
 
Graeme

It's getting better all the time...