Sick. I haven't been sick for a year and a half, and then it was a cold made miserable because I had to fly a lot and that's hard on the ears. But this is full-blown. My body feels as if I've been beaten all over with rubber hammers: no bruises, just pain.

The good news is that I didn't lose much at my spa. All my treatments were done. I was packing and then I was going to have a steam and lunch and leave. It began as I finished packing. No lunch. I crawled home (lucky I wasn't driving), by train, took a cab home and made it to bed by 5 p.m. where I spent the next 14 hours. I'm still in bed, but blogging.

And that's all for today. Again I wish you a happy healthy new year.