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milly 
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Posted: 07 November 2009 at 12:48pm |
Well actually at my sisters house. I just happened to have been watching the baby when the nephews fell ill. So I just kept her of course. I do not no if it will do any good but I hope she does not get it.
I new it was coming. Well it was already here. On the news they talked of school closings a three hour drive from here. The school was closed because 85 students were out ill.
That is nothing compared to what was going on here behind our noses. The school called Tuesday and asked that all children sick or that had been sick be kept home because 200 children in the elementary school were out ill. By Wednesday night the nephews had it. Wow my community has taken a hard hit.
So far my seven year old nephew has been hit the hardest. They put him on tamiflu and he is showing some improvement. He was just miserable. Even with tylonol and advil combined he was having terrible chills all day yesterday. He said his legs were freezing and felt like they would break into one million pieces. He was in tears many times the past two days but appears to be living threw this.
One of the nieghbor girls tested positive and her sister tested negative. Also a girl across the street first tested negative and then tested positive. So it is starting to show positve now. I had read that some places are only getting negative results. They did not actually test my nephews. At this point they have seen enough of the H1N1 to know what it is.
I am just keeping a close eye on everyone else. It will be a true miracle if the rest of the family does not fall out with this. I hope that having the baby for twenty four hours before her brothers got this will keep her well. She is up from her nap so I will check back in a day or two if I get time. LOL Just have been a little busy lately.
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Posted: 07 November 2009 at 1:09pm |
I called the health department and they are out of the adult H1N1 vaccines as well as the seasonal flu vaccines. My Mom is out of luck for now. We hope that she has some immunity to the H1N1. Time will tell. They are having a walk in clinic for the kids on the 17th of the month. So a bit late for most. I hope they have plenty of tamiflu.
So glad I went out of town to get my vaccines a few weeks ago.
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Posted: 07 November 2009 at 1:24pm |
I hope everyone recovers quickly! It is hard to control when it starts spreading through a school. My daughter is a teacher of 7th and 8th graders at the middle school in Florida. She says so far there has not been any problem with flu in her district. I am sort of ticked at her because she did not get her flu shot and as a mother herself I think she owes it to herself and family to get one. So when I go to Florida for a visit this Thanksgiving it will be my mission to seek out a flu shot and make her go!...I try to remember being 24 and how you thought nothing ever would happen to you...but I am a mom...and a mom will be a mom no matter what age her children are.
Take care Milly and stay healthy.
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Posted: 07 November 2009 at 2:59pm |
It has hit hard here too, We live in small town of about 9000 and 2 have died with it, a 47 year old woman and a 34 year old man. both were treated for pheumonia in hospital and sent home after few days and was back in hospital and died within days of hini flu. there is so many that they have a floor of the hospital shut off for people with it. They have limited visitors, allowed anywhere in hospital. schools have been open and shut a few times. I was lucky enough to get a shot, my husband can't get 1. I'm high risk. A 5 year old about 60 miles from here also die.
Take care of yourself and the little one. try to stay healthy
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Posted: 08 November 2009 at 1:07am |
Originally posted by milly
I called the health department and they are out of the adult H1N1 vaccines as well as the seasonal flu vaccines. My Mom is out of luck for now. We hope that she has some immunity to the H1N1. Time will tell. They are having a walk in clinic for the kids on the 17th of the month. So a bit late for most. I hope they have plenty of tamiflu.
So glad I went out of town to get my vaccines a few weeks ago. |
Can't get a hold of it here in the Chicago area either. Lots of area health departments have offered it but they quickly run out after a few hours; the news shows long lines of people (including disabled folks and moms with small infants) waiting outside in the rain for hours to get the vaccine. I've also heard (though I don't know how true it is) that folks over 65 have been turned away, even after waiting in line for hours, even if they have underlying illness which puts them in the high-risk categories. Our pediatrician's office is out of the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines, injectable and nasal. So far there have been a few students at the boys' school who have had H1N1, and two had to be hospitalized. Scary stuff!
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Posted: 08 November 2009 at 11:37am |
Next to impossible to get either vaccine in my area as well, so I'm hoping that I'm one of those age 60+ people who picked up immunity some years ago.
An elderly friend of mine drove about 100 miles south and stood in line at an H1N1 clinic....they ran out. As she said, "I don't know which is worse: having H1N1 or exhausting myself standing in long lines and exposing myself to strangers."
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Posted: 08 November 2009 at 4:03pm |
I'm also hoping that I'm one of those age 60+ with immunity to H1N1. The vaccine isn't available in our rural area.
Milly, I hope that the H1N1 passes you by. Try and rest as much as you can, even though you're keeping the children.
Lindy
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Posted: 08 November 2009 at 4:05pm |
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Milly, I just read your post saying that you got the vaccine, guess I should have read all of the posts before I posted. That's a forum hazard!! Lindy
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We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. Ram Dass
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Posted: 10 November 2009 at 7:11am |
How's it going for you and yours Milly?
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Posted: 10 November 2009 at 12:49pm |
Bumping in hopes of hearing from Milly - I sure hope all is well and I am thinking of you!  Waddie
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