This should be over with for Pete’s sake …
On the 29th of October, Missy came down with flu symptoms. On the 31st, I joined her. By Tuesday of the following week, we were coughing on slides and being diagnosed (since confirmed) with H1N1. As of Monday, we were both officially “non-contagious” and supposedly on the road to recovery. We’ve both had antibiotics for secondary infections, and both of us are finally getting a bit of an appetite back.
Missy’s still got a cough, but for the most part, she is doing fine. She’s resumed dance and To-Shin Do.
I’ve still got a cough, and shortness of breath. It’s like my lung capacity has diminished, and any strain is a challenge. I walk up the stairs and I have to sit down for 10 minutes to cough, gasp, wheeze and try to catch my breath again. Today, I walked from the basement to the middle level and then out to the car and it was almost 20 minutes before I managed to breathe right again.
What pisses me off is the number of people who aren’t staying home, the people who don’t seem to care who they’re possibly infecting. I stayed in the house for the entire 10 days that the CDC said I was contagious. I didn’t leave, even to go thru a drive-thru window at the pharmacy, because I didn’t want to risk giving this to someone else. As much as I wanted to see my grandson in his Halloween costume and have him here for beggar’s night, I had my daughter keep him away. Yet I look around me at people who are just out and about, coughing and sneezing and spewing their germs everywhere. Today while we were out I listened to a woman coughing her fool head off and finally asked her if she had seen a doctor. She said “it’s just the flu.” No, it’s probably NOT “just” the flu is the problem. And with people like her running around hacking up lungs everywhere it’s going to just keep on spreading. They can’t even predict who it’s going to hit the hardest, because some of them should have been able to shake it off with no problem and yet they’re dying.
I wouldn’t wish this crap on my worst enemy. Well … okay … that’s not quite true … I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, but I certainly wouldn’t lose any sleep over her getting it …
November 12th, 2009 at 09:09
You may wish to go back to the doctor, hon. I’ve read that one of the after effects of that crap is a diminished lung capacity and greater chance of getting things like bronchitis and pneumonia.
I hope that’s not the case, but better safe than sorry.
November 12th, 2009 at 13:45
Thanks for staying home, hon. We all appreciate it. As for us, I found a place that has the nasalmist vaccine and have an appointment for Em this afternoon. I’ll be getting mine another day.
Listen to Jenn and take care of yourself!
November 12th, 2009 at 17:11
our doctor said that by the time the government gets enough doses of H1N1 vaccine here in the Miami Valley everyone is going to have already had the flu. I think its wrong that big companies and places like Gitmo are getting the vaccine and people like us aren’t. And they are just giving the ones they do get to whoever gets in line for it, not to the people who are high risk. It’s just wrong.
November 12th, 2009 at 17:32
Good old Goldman Sachs got a batch of H1N1 vaccines a few weeks ago.. Why?
November 13th, 2009 at 00:09
They are offering the vaccine at work but I was told not to bother since I was already out with it. I didn’t do the lab work because the hospital, that early in the season, was treating any flu as if it were swine flu. The symptoms seem to leave in waves. Right now I think I have an ear infection from it.
As for Gitmo–I don’t mind the soldiers getting it, but I do have a problem with terrorists being moved to the front of the line. (“they” are now saying it is just going to the military personel)
You and Missy should be starting to feel better soon.