Posted by Laurie | November 5th, 2009

Yep, I’m pretty sure my kids have/had H1N1. No, I haven’t had them tested just to be sure. It is sweeping across their school (and many other Canadian schools too) and they have the symptoms. Well, currently LittleBoy has the symptoms the worst, BigBoy is already on his way to recovery. Cough + two days of high fever and fatigue, then two days of still feeling fatigued and now, mostly better. Today is day 1 of fever for LittleBoy. BabyBoy should have it by the weekend I’m thinking.

So why is this important to me? Because, as I suspected, I no longer need to even think about getting my boys immunized with the H1N1 vaccine. And that is a relief to me, as I truly didn’t want to do it, and I know for sure now there would have been no point – it simply wasn’t available in time for us (given when they finally started making it available and how long it takes to truly provide protection). But I’ve read so many posts on the topic recently, trying to make sure if I was making the right choice, it’s nice to have it out of my hands now.

And much as I’d love to talk even more about the “swine” flu, I must go take care of LittleBoy!

Tags: canadian, fever, h1n1, school outbreak, swine flu