Relative Something

Is it possible that there is an opposite to the phrase, “you don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone”?

For the last few days, I have been suffering some sort of illness. Under the current environment of concern about the highly infectious H1N1 flu, small businesses, like the one where I am employed, are receiving plenty of advice on how to prevent the spread of illness. One of the simplest and most obvious guidelines is for employees to stay home when they get sick. So I did. I stayed home on Friday with a sore throat, not having any clue whether I was experiencing the early signs of flu, or not.

From everything that I have read lately about the flu, I am pretty confident that this is: Not. I have not experienced anything in the way of a fever. My sore throat has transitioned to a lung congestion and occasional cough, which also contributed to a bit of a headache. Whatever it is that has taken up residence within my body, it has also unleashed something that I don’t regularly have to deal with. I have developed a ravenous appetite. I can honestly say that I definitely take for granted the fact that I normally don’t have to struggle with constantly wanting to eat.

I didn’t know what I didn’t have, till I suddenly got it. ?