Comments on: Stewing

By: Xимeнa

Xимeнa — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:51:42 +0000

Люблю сообщения в таком духе! Большое спасибо :)

By: Shana

Shana — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:00:03 +0000

2 comments I wasted my time on, and they did not show. Am I doing something wrong?

By: Rhi

Rhi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37:03 +0000

Took our 2 year old into Seattle Children’s ER two weeks ago for a cold-induced asthma situation.

First thing they did was stuff a tube up his nose, suck out the snot and test for H1N1. They said it’s running rampant and that half the people sitting in the waiting room were probably there for that reason. We didn’t have it luckily, but they also didn’t have the vaccine. Our regular Ped. is associated with UW and they don’t have any either. WTH?! Two ENTIRE medical centers have no access for their high risk patients? Lame.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:52:30 +0000

In my neck of the woods the doctor’s are giving tamiflu out to everyone with confirmed cases of H1N1 as well as people who have all the symptoms of H1N1 but have not had it officially confirmed. Since you have to go to the hospital in order to get diagnosed, you risk being exposed to even more germs floating around in the air, so even if you didn’t head to the hospital with the swine flu, you certainly could end up leaving with it. I guess the doctor’s figure better to be safe than sorry…

By: jessica fantastica

jessica fantastica — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:01:56 +0000

By the way, I hadn’t read any previous comments before I said my stuff, and I realized I might have sounded a little shouty. I promise, I’m not shouty at all. I mean, yes I did shout, but it was a nice shout. Promise! :)

By: jessica fantastica

jessica fantastica — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:59:05 +0000

I came down with H1N1 on a Saturday. I went to a normal Dr’s office on the following Monday. He gave me Tamiflu and I was ok to go back to work on Wednesday. What you should learn from this is to GO TO THE DOCTOR if you are sick. Hey it took me 30 years to learn that!

By: beach

beach — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:52:00 +0000

seriously my kids whole football team is out sick with the flu…..and he is 17….Ive been dealing with the flu and kids for fucking YEARS!!!!,,,,man up….

By: beach

beach — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:43:05 +0000

wow….I i hear ya…you have been thru the shit mill and back….and I seriously feel so bad for you….regarding sickness wise and toddlerville….I guess I just am oppossed to thinking getting a vaccine is going to cure it all….which is what I got from your last post, but maybe I was wrong….anyway…hope you get some respite…am personally just sick to fucking death of the whole “vaccine is the end all cure bullshit” to it all…..sorry I pushed a button..

By: Sundry

Sundry — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:42:45 +0000

Beach, as someone whose household has been plagued with illness like never before over the last SIX WEEKS AND COUNTING . . . I’ll man up when you take over the 12-5 AM shift, mmmkay?

PS: WE DO TAKE VITAMINS AND WASH OUR HANDS OMFG.

By: becky

becky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:20:29 +0000

My son had the H1N1 for a week or so. It sucked, but luckily nobody else around here (including the baby with respiratory risks) got it. My sympathies go out to anyone dealing with it in their house!!

The research I’ve read is iffy on the whole Tamiflu thing–in otherwise healthy (i.e., non-high risk) kids, it seems to be reducing the length of the flu by only about a day or so. So I am actually more sympathetic than I was before to the decision not to hand out Tamiflu to everyone…the more the virus is exposed to Tamiflu, the more likely resistant strains are to emerge. That would not be so good.