“Swine flu girl.”

That was the phrase I heard loud and clear outside our examining room door while we were waiting on the results of the flu swab for S last night at her pediatrician’s office.

Hmmmm, must be us.  S did have the symptoms, but it was also crowded so it could’ve been anyone.

It sure was us.  S started with a cough yesterday or the day before and yesterday afternoon was down and out so fast – within fifteen minutes – with a fever of 103.6.  My super active child was on the couch with her stuffed monkey companion either asleep or whining or cold or wanting in my lap.  Poor baby.

Did I mention how brutal that swab is for a 2 year old girl?  No fun.  I’d rather hold her down for a shot than for liquid then a cotton swab up the nose.  Ugh!!  Needless to say, she was less than trustful of anyone who entered the room after that.  The PA was super sweet and so good with her.  She convinced S that Dora and Boots were hiding in her ears and that Diego was in her mouth.  S promptly swallowed Diego.  Hilarious!

I haven’t been feeling so hot the past couple of days and woke up feeling rough this morning, so I guess it’ll be a weekend on the couch with a perpetual rerun of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

And I wonder why I keep singing about this strange, rude guy “Gaston” in my head.

She is doing great this morning – no fever yet, just a cough.  Me – barely a cough, more really achy and runny nose than anything.

You so wanted to know those details, didn’t you?

On the plus side, we’ll save money on vaccinations and then we’ll have no worries about catching it anymore.

It’s really not so bad right now for our family, but I do understand how tragic it has been a lot of people.

More later,

Nurse-Patient-Mommy Tara

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