I went to my doctor last night to see what I could take to calm my cough. It wasn't so much the cough that hurt...it was the aching ribs. Therefore, calm the cough = ease the achy ribs. Turns out, Robitussen or Benylin are okay, I just take half the recommended dosage. Doc would have swabbed me for H1N1, but the Regina lab has ordered that no more swabs be sent in - they are over loaded. My doc also told me that out of the 10 or so people he is swabbing in a day, half are coming back positive.
Just to draw a quick picture, here's the chain of people leading up to my being sick...the boys' mom boss got the boys' mom sick. The boys' mom passed it to Joel. Then to Colby. Between those two, one of them passed it on to me. After I got sick, the boys' mom's hubby and his son got sick. Apparently, it was confirmed this afternoon that the hubby and son have H1N1. I'm a little skeptical about this being "confirmed" since this info came from Colby...who has a tendency to add on, misinterpret or omit pieces of truth. It was our own family doc that supposedly confirmed it, but my question is, how do you confirm H1N1 without a swab? Mike pointed out that if 50% of your patients are coming back positive for it, chances are likely you'd become pretty good at weeding out who has it and doesn't.
We're still waiting to hear back about Joel's swab from last Friday. If Joel's comes back positive, it's likely that what I have right now is the good ol' swine flu. And I'm more than okay with that. Because that means I won't have to get the vaccination. Plus, you could add my story to the "good"...meaning swine flu doesn't kill everyone in comes in contact with. I'd be really curious to see the numbers showing how many thousands of people contract and live through getting H1N1 compared to the handful of people that have died from it.
And unless I or someone in this house actually has H1N1, this will be the last time I post on it. I'm guessing you're all as tired as I am about hearing about it every which way your turn.
Hope you feel better soon; glad you can take something now!
ReplyDeleteYeah, only 90 people in Canada have died from H1N1, so if you don't get the vaccine, you take a very small risk of having a very serious case. Even if you get a moderate case, doesn't sound fun.
But now you probably don't need the vaccination anyway, so hooray!
I was reading my natural "Mothering" magazine the other day, and what I got from one of the articles was, you should try to stay healthy and save vaccines for true emergencies. Diptheria & polio are NOT going around. H1N1 is. So if you're going to immunize against anything, it makes more sense for something that is actually rampant. Made sense in my mind. This is more directed to vaccinating kids, but it was a brainwave for me.