Pumping up the volume: how podcasts were my unlikely saviour during the horror of influenza A | Rebecca Shaw

TV was important as we lay rotting on the couch, but it was another modern advance in technology that I have been appreciating most

After a horrible two-week battle with the influenza A (A stands for annoying") virus, I am in the home stretch to victory, and as such have entered the final stage - gratitude.

This is when, after many days of thinking that you are probably never going to feel good again and all your loved ones should just forget about you and block your number, you start to improve. Everything around you becomes bathed in a warm glow (which isn't your fever for once).