The Flu Hits Home

I don't think it was the H1N1, but it hasn't been fun around here. It started Saturday with my oldest vomiting. Then she was fine. I thought maybe she'd eaten something bad (we'd gone out to eat that day).

Monday morning comes and my son is vomiting at 5:00 a.m. I send him back to bed. I guess my daughter getting sick wasn't something she ate because she passed it to her brother. No school for him. Poor thing.

About two hours later, I'm worshipping the porcelain gods on my knees! Not fun.

My son spends the morning laying around and then he is better. He's up and doing things. Meanwhile, I am on the couch. Any time I move, bad cramps go through my abdomen. By the time the afternoon rolls around, the cramps are moving lower and I have chills. By bedtime, I am pretty miserable with chills (I could not get warm) and inhaling hurts my chest a lot. Since I have asthma, THAT worried me the most. I usually use my Advair inhaler once a day but at that point, I hit it again and then went to bed hoping I wasn't going to have to track down hubby at work or make a hospital visit. Going to the ER is a last resort to me (that attitude almost killed me once, waiting too long during an asthma attack) but I had every intention of getting over it and putting up with the people in lab coats to avoid almost dying this time.

Tuesday morning, my son is back in school. I'm still crampy if I move and my lungs are a little heavy but not like last night. The worst of it was last night. I hope anyway. I have too many things to do to be sick!

It's weird the way a bug goes through the house and affects family members differently. My kids bounced right back. It's taking me longer to even think about bouncing. Like I said, I don't believe it was H1N1 but it was definitely some type of bug.

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Juggling Your Boss and Swine Flu

I wrote about the swine flu scare the school had over my oldest daughter earlier in the week so I won't bore you with repeating the tiny details here. Quick summary, she has asthma, they panicked over her asthma cough because of swine flu panic and sent her home from school when they shouldn't have to wait to see if she got a fever. Waited 48 hours, no fever, so I got a doctor's note to take her back to school.

Anyhow, there are a lot of kids out of school with fevers and vomiting right now at the school. My son said half of his class has been missing this week. When I went to pick up my daughter (see first paragraph), there was a little girl on my other daughter's cheerleading squad that was in the office with the flu. Her mom was called from work at the hospital to pick her up, showing up in her lab coat. I'd imagine there have been a lot of parents everywhere getting those phone calls to leave work to come get a sick child. I'm glad I work from home and my schedule is my own. I don't miss having to juggle my boss's demands and a sick child at the same time. I don't miss those times at all! I'd imagine the workplace is suffering right along with the schools - not only do they have to deal with employee illnesses, they also have to adjust to parents having to leave to take care of their sick child.

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H1N1, School Freaks Out Over Asthma Cough

Is the H1N1 bug as bad as the government is making it out to be? What's your opinion? Is it as dangerous as they say or is it a ploy from Big Pharma and the government to make money? Is it worse than the basic flu that hits the masses every year about this time?

My 12-year-old daughter has asthma. Every year about this time, she gets an asthmatic cough that lasts a few weeks. With the weather changes and all the corn being cut down right now, she has that barky cough right now (no fever). I remember during Halloween last year, she barked all through trick-or treat. It's that time of year for her. Unless or until she develops a fever, it's her asthma. She went to school today and they ended up calling me to come get her. She still doesn't have a fever but they're panicking over the cough. "OMG, H1N1. LET'S ALL PANIC."

Ugh.

Let's not all freak out people! If she had a fever, then I would have kept her home. If this is her asthma cough, it lasts about a month. Am I supposed to keep her home from school for a month for something that isn't contagious because people are panicking?

She missed pre-algebra today (as well as other classes but pre-algebra is an honors math class and she needs to be there to understand what they're learning). She has to be home for 24 hours to see if a fever develops. So she'll miss a second pre-algebra class tomorrow and probably not be able to cheer for her last football game because of the rules about having to be in school the day of the games.

Now if she develops a fever, then she'll stay home until she hasn't had a fever for 24 hours but I don't think it's right that they kicked her out of school when she's not showing symptoms of having the flu! I know a lot of kids have the flu right now (whether it is H1N1 or not remains to be seen) but she has no fever!!

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Dr Would Not Give Swine Flu Vaccine to His Own Kids

Will you vaccine your kids? Why or why not?

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