Last Thursday morning, Hope started running a fever and began coughing later on in the day.  Friday morning the coughing was worse so I took her in to the Dr.  She tested postive for Type A flu, which is the H1N1 flu virus.  A prescription for Tamiflu was called in for her, Nate and Bill.  The bad news was Dad and Di, my stepmom, had come into town and were going to take Hope to the Zoo last Saturday.  Bill did go meet them to get Hope's birthday gifts but we couldn't take a chance of giving them what we have.  Yes, I said we.  Guess who else started feeling bad Friday evening? Yep, me.  So the next morning  I went into the urgent care place, and though I didn't test positive, the Dr. did give me a script for Tamiflu.  He said I may have come in so early that it wasn't showing up yet plus Hope testing postive and my having the same symptoms was enough for him.

 

If there is any good that came out of needing to go to the Dr, this was the same one that diagnosed my lung blood clots in August.  It was nice to be able to say thank you for potentially saving my life.

 

So far, the men in the house are still well, so lets hope we've seen the end of this.  Hope's been fever free for almost 48 hrs, but I'm still running a fever.  Hopefully this will be the last day. 

 

This has been a major setback for me in that I'm so physically and mentally drained.  I was finally feeling like I was hitting my stride last week when this hit. Please pray that discouragement would not set in.

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