So glad to hear you all are recovering. Perhaps if it was the swine flu you will all have a bit of immunity.??
My son is suppose to fly to San Diego next week and is in the prime of his life(twenties). I am very afraid for him flying and going there. He is grown and will probably not listen to me if I ask him not to go. Being a mother is hard sometimes, isn’t it?
Just advise him that the first 2 days of being infected won’t manifest symptoms, either from himself or others.
The Marines who were quarantined all appear healthy, except for the one confirmed case who is reportedly getting better, but they were reportedly all out playing cards last weekend.
Might not be the best time to visit the casinos, swapping coin and chips and cards, (and who knows what else).
I wonder how stocks in pharmaceuticals are doing tonight.
FS: See my post at #34 — my whole family just got over SOMETHING, and I’ve had a nagging feeling since hearing about this that it wasn’t the “regular” flu.
Penelopesire (and FS, LOL) —
That’s what I’m REALLY hoping and praying for at this point. But unless there is some kind of test developed to test for antibodies to this particular virus or something, I don’t think they could tell now. [Pretty sure the swab for my daughter’s “long” strep test was used and thrown out, as well as the petri dish they cultured her sample in... LOL]
After we started homeschooling 10 years ago, we’ve NEVER gotten sick like this as a family — sure the occasional colds, something my husband got from work, etc... but this hit everyone except me within a 24 hour period (by the next day I had 5 sick family members on my hands all with fevers, coughing — your regular flu symptoms). It was strange to say the least. It didn’t suprise me all that much that I remained healthy for a few days, but I just remembered that the pain meds I take for my back contain acetaminophen. Heck, I could’ve been sick for days with a low fever, and not even realized it — until the acute bronchitis infection hit me... In fact, that’s probably a more likely scenario, that my case was mild in comparison, and due to my nursing all of them and tiring myself out is the reason it turned into a bad infection in me or something...
Sorry, don’t mean to take up this thread with our personal medical history of the illness we suffered this month. It’s just rather weird, and coincidental — and actually, the thought that we may have already had this decreases my worries! :)
Prayers for your son, and for peace and comfort for you while he’s traveling. [Being a mom is a hard job when things like this happen — very stressful. I wish we could keep them all in a safe little bubble or something, but that would be impossible, and it would hurt them much worse than the chance of infection! LOL]
You should tell him to stay.
The thing with the Flu of 1919 is that it cut down people in the best years of their life, supposedly when they were supposed to be at their toughest. If the age range of related deaths is around twenties tell him that and don’t do that as a hysteric, but as a mother who is concerned and convince him to stay and wait to see what happens.