Swine Flu (H1N1) Returns

Believe it or not, we have H1N1 in our house again, but this time it isn't me. The kids picked it up somewhere. Everyone wants to know how they got it, since we homeschool. Just in case I am the very first person to tell you all, homeschoolers don't stay at home all day. We go places, and the library being one of the places, which is public. But we go other places too. Nevertheless, they picked it up somewhere.

The kids and I swim nearly daily. We were just getting to the point that we were going to stop swimming due to the colder weather (yes summer) when they came down with swine flu. I don't know if we will swim again after this or not. I have put on a couple of pounds this week because I'm not able to get out and exercise. I have been making big changes left and right, and I'm so pleased about it, but until we are well, I'll be at home caring for the kids.

We went to the doctor not once, but twice this past week. First was to take Lakshmi. Ravi and Priya waited out in the hallway while I had Lakshmi checked out. She was positive for H1N1, and I asked for meds for the other two. The doctor said no, but of course Ravi started with symtoms the very next day, so right back to the doctors office, exactly where we didn't like to go in the first place, and both Ravi and Priya were tested. Ravi had it, Priya didn't.

So all three however are on the meds, Priya's is a preventative dose (less than the other two). While at the doctors office on the second day, they kids were required to wear face masks. After a while, a nurse came out into the sick room to ask everyone with flu symptoms to leave the sick room and go out in the hall to wait. To my shock, EVERYONE got up and walked out! Then one family left the hallway and walked into the sick room. I wondered why they went back in there, afterall, now it is contaminated with flu virus at this point! The face masks are from the doctors office, and I thought it would be cute to have the kids sit on our sofa with them on.

Take your vit C and stay well!
Jyotsna