Thanks for your sympathies. I'd love to recover quickly, but it's impossible to tell if recovery will take two weeks or two months. Most of the day I lie in bed, reading Tolkien (not too many complaints about that, though - and I may be relieved of P.E. (gym) for six months for health reasons).

And that pink thingy is one of the cuddly toys offered from Giant microbes (http://www.giantmicrobes.com) - a company that makes cute plushies based on the shape of actual microbes. One of those things I'll buy the day I become filthy rich and can pare money on silly stuff like that. Imagine perching the flesh eating virus next to your pillow...