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Flu update: Daughters middle school closed Monday. Anyone else?
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 314439" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Not yet here, but we've got 2 cheer competitions coming up the first 2 weeks in Nov - right now, I think it's very iffy if they're going to take place. The parents are really freaking out around here, especially since there's not an H1N1 shot to be found - our pediatrician hasn't even gotten in it yet, and he never got the regular flu shot because the companies stopped making pediatrician doses so they could switch to H1N1 manufacturing. </p><p> </p><p>We've had a couple of confirmed H1N1 cases in our local elementary school - I think it is just inevitable that there's going to be huge outbreaks. husband and I have had several heated discussions. Fear drives my thinking but husband is being rather logical about it - realistically we cannot stop life as we know it, waiting for this to pass. Flu season goes thru, what? April? May? </p><p> </p><p>I don't know.... I'm trying to be more diligent about getting the kids to eat healthy and filling them up with lots of vitamin C. And *praying* that the shots get here soon!</p><p> </p><p>To make things worse, husband's assistant coach is a nurse at a local hospital. She said that they are filled with kids with- pneumonia, not H1N1-related. Weeburt was coughing up a storm last week (croupy-sounding cough) and husband didn't tell me about the pneumonia because he knew I would flip, but he did insist that Wee get into the pediatrician. Here I thought I was being responsible because he wasn't running a fever (and I was checking him umpteen times a day, poor kid) and I intentionally wasn't making an appointment because I figure hospitals and doctor offices are probably the last place you want to be right now if you don't have to be there - but according to pediatrician, walking pneumonia doesn't necessarily run a fever. Fortunately, Wee just has a URI. </p><p> </p><p>Parenthood is scary sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 314439, member: 8"] Not yet here, but we've got 2 cheer competitions coming up the first 2 weeks in Nov - right now, I think it's very iffy if they're going to take place. The parents are really freaking out around here, especially since there's not an H1N1 shot to be found - our pediatrician hasn't even gotten in it yet, and he never got the regular flu shot because the companies stopped making pediatrician doses so they could switch to H1N1 manufacturing. We've had a couple of confirmed H1N1 cases in our local elementary school - I think it is just inevitable that there's going to be huge outbreaks. husband and I have had several heated discussions. Fear drives my thinking but husband is being rather logical about it - realistically we cannot stop life as we know it, waiting for this to pass. Flu season goes thru, what? April? May? I don't know.... I'm trying to be more diligent about getting the kids to eat healthy and filling them up with lots of vitamin C. And *praying* that the shots get here soon! To make things worse, husband's assistant coach is a nurse at a local hospital. She said that they are filled with kids with- pneumonia, not H1N1-related. Weeburt was coughing up a storm last week (croupy-sounding cough) and husband didn't tell me about the pneumonia because he knew I would flip, but he did insist that Wee get into the pediatrician. Here I thought I was being responsible because he wasn't running a fever (and I was checking him umpteen times a day, poor kid) and I intentionally wasn't making an appointment because I figure hospitals and doctor offices are probably the last place you want to be right now if you don't have to be there - but according to pediatrician, walking pneumonia doesn't necessarily run a fever. Fortunately, Wee just has a URI. Parenthood is scary sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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