the flu has hit

I  have a 12 year old on the sofa upstairs crying his eyes out he feels so miserable … and I don’t have anything else I can do for him.  I hate feeling so helpless as a mom, but really, the flu just plain sucks … and there is nothing else we can do about it!!  His fever has been minimal – as a matter of fact, it has been well below normal for the last 12 hours after a little mini-spike yesterday.  His head, back, neck and face hurt ???????  All the the flus are running rampant in our schools, so I shouldn’t be surprised that we have been hit, I was just hoping we could avoid it!