A week with H1N1


How fun wasn't that?

Daughter came down with H1N1 on Sept. 26th -- confirmed at the pediatrician's on the 27th. I managed through judicious use of hand-cleaning and keeping her away from the men-folk to keep her from passing it to anyone else in the house. She had fever, she had achy joints and muscles, she had nasal drainage bad enough to make her lose her breakfast two days in a row, and she had a horrific cough. Luckily we kept her fever down and the junk from settling into her chest.

She spent an entire week at home, and could probably have stood to stay home the first couple of days of the next week, except that would have put her so far behind on her homework that she never would have caught up. She has three Honors classes, one AP class, and she's in the highest level orchestra, and for the first time in her life she is making a concerted effort to do all her homework, and then this happened. She's still doing make-up tests and essays three weeks later.

We've all be immunized for Type A now except Hubs and #1-Son, who can't be bothered to walk by the campus medical center and get one, the lazy so-n-so. He had allergies bad enough to keep him out of class for three days a few weeks ago; he'll be knocked flat if he catches the full-up influenza.

#2-Son can get a H1N1 vaccine at school the second week in November; here's hoping he doesn't catch it before then. I have no idea if / when Hubs and I'll be able to get one.

Posted: Mon - October 19, 2009 at 07:28 PM   Home         | | View Technorati reactions

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