OK, Skink, now you're just trying to freak me out by fattening up my avatar!! My worst fears imagined. Birdgirl turns into a wide-load fowl.

You'll be glad to know, THCBongman, that my doctor said if I weren't in such good cardio and fitness shape before I picked up this bug that things would have been much worse and that I would have a much more difficult time shaking off pneumonia, which I'm apparently at high risk for right now. My five-times-a-week workouts have set me in good stead, even if I'm having to stay away from the gym for a time and just let my metabolic rate slow down a bit. I'll be back to my taut self in good time. He told me today I can start to do walking (not race-walking or running and not any cardio machines) in the neighborhood and lift very light weights to try and maintain my strength and regain the ground I've lost in the last two or three weeks.