| It's Swine flu! Run for your life!
Posted: 11/2/2009 11:53:32 PM | I just got back from the emergency department because my youngest son had all the symptoms including a high fever and sure enough he has H1N1. He had a lung x-ray and does not have pneumonia -- thankfully.
The doctor said, however, that because he was young and generally healthy that he should just let it run its course - unless it worsens - and that he did not need a Tamiflu (anti-virus) tablet.
I looked it up online but can't post the link because the best description of how it works comes from a sponsored site.
But it seems that indeed they have stockpiled dosages of this medication and are distributing it strategically.
I wouldn't be surprised if we both caught it at the same time since we both started to feel ill a couple of weeks ago after visiting a sick relative almost daily in the ICU of the hospital.
Mine got better though when an old root canal started acting up and landed me on antibiotics and non-narcotic prescription pain meds...the only upside of the dental condition that is still ongoing. | |
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| It's Swine flu! Run for your life!
Posted: 11/3/2009 3:20:44 AM | In the start of it all I thought that people were all going crazy for nothing, to me it was just the regular flu. But then when I started seeing that the kids were dieing from it that told me it was time to take my daughter. We are going today for her to have her shot.
My dh cousin's little boy who was perfectly health on a regular day started feeling crappy, mama gave him some meds to bring down the fever that he got, and put him in the bath, put him to bed. Half way through the night she goes to check on him and realizle's that he is breathing funny so she trys to wake him up and nope he wont wake up. She rushes him to the hosptial and he is now in Intensive care on machines because his lungs are only working at a 15% rate due to this. So ya we are going to take our chance with the shot. | |
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| It's Swine flu! Run for your life!
Posted: 11/3/2009 12:29:59 PM | I don't think it's an ordinary flu either but my risk factor is always lung and chest infections due to a past medical history. And although antibiotics don't kill the virus, I do believe these helped prevent an infection from developing.
The person we were visiting (my son's father) in the ICU was indeed experiencing liver and heart failure due to an ongoing but unrelated condition so I stopped going to visit once I became sick because his lungs weren't draining properly either.
I hope the little one mentioned above whose lungs are at 15% recovers fully. Thoughts and prayers are with everyone experiencing this.
Never saw so many people wearing different colour-coded masks in one emerg waiting room as I did last nite. | |
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| It's Swine flu! Run for your life!
Posted: 11/3/2009 1:09:14 PM | It really is a scary thing.
We went today and my daughter got her's, all the parent's have to wait and hope that we can get our's next week or the week after. I am hoping that when I take the little one for the second part I can have mine at the same time by that point. | |
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