Better.
Finally, I think I'm over the worst of this. Criminy.
Thing is, I don't see how anyone can actually avoid catching it, short of being a hermit for the foreseeable future. My kid got it at school, likely (where they are still -- like every other school these days -- in outbreak mode), and it spread through the household lickety split. Up until now (and they're only expanding it to seniors and schoolage kids, so), the H1N1 vaccine has only been available (technically; don't get me started on the people who've managed to get it nevertheless) to high risk groups, which we're not in (for a change). So, yeah, it was probably inevitable. If you can get the vaccine, I encourage you to do so at your earliest convenience.
You know, with all my training as a screener at the clinic -- right down to knowing exactly what kind/size of mask I need, having my own goggles, etc. -- being a sanitizer advocate since the SARS days, knowing way more than I want to about pandemic influenza from reading our clinic's plan and pulling together the factsheet... When your whole house is sick it all just goes to hell in a rocket-fueled handbasket. The guidelines are kind of a joke -- how are you supposed to keep everyone else in your house from getting sick when by the time someone starts showing symptoms, they've already been contagious for a day? I mean, seriously, I don't get it. We faced similar paradoxes at the clinic, and I'm curious as to what it actually looks like on the ground there, now (though there's no way in hell I'm going to go by for a visit!).
*sigh* Anyway. We're all better here. Hopefully there'll be no more whammies this season. Ahaha. *knocks on wood, breaks matchsticks, etc.*
Thing is, I don't see how anyone can actually avoid catching it, short of being a hermit for the foreseeable future. My kid got it at school, likely (where they are still -- like every other school these days -- in outbreak mode), and it spread through the household lickety split. Up until now (and they're only expanding it to seniors and schoolage kids, so), the H1N1 vaccine has only been available (technically; don't get me started on the people who've managed to get it nevertheless) to high risk groups, which we're not in (for a change). So, yeah, it was probably inevitable. If you can get the vaccine, I encourage you to do so at your earliest convenience.
You know, with all my training as a screener at the clinic -- right down to knowing exactly what kind/size of mask I need, having my own goggles, etc. -- being a sanitizer advocate since the SARS days, knowing way more than I want to about pandemic influenza from reading our clinic's plan and pulling together the factsheet... When your whole house is sick it all just goes to hell in a rocket-fueled handbasket. The guidelines are kind of a joke -- how are you supposed to keep everyone else in your house from getting sick when by the time someone starts showing symptoms, they've already been contagious for a day? I mean, seriously, I don't get it. We faced similar paradoxes at the clinic, and I'm curious as to what it actually looks like on the ground there, now (though there's no way in hell I'm going to go by for a visit!).
*sigh* Anyway. We're all better here. Hopefully there'll be no more whammies this season. Ahaha. *knocks on wood, breaks matchsticks, etc.*