Good Riddance Swine Flu!

(Since she was sick and I felt sorry for her, Audrey got to open one of her Birthday presents from Grandma Marcia and Grandpa Craig, early. She looked like she needed a comfy place to lounge so here she is in her new chair. Look how around her eyes are so red...it looks like she had been crying.)

Yes...Audrey had the H1N1 virus this past week, but she is doing great now. It started last Wednesday when I noticed that she seemed really out of it, not sleepy...just in a daze. Well Thursday morning she wakes up with a 101 fever. Thinking that it's not that big of a deal, I put a call into the pediatricians office and give her some Motrin. The nurse calls me back and asks if there are any other symptoms? Nope, not a one...just the fever so she says to just monitor it and give her Motrin if she needs it. By Thursday night her fever is just sitting between 102 and 103 and it really isn't even coming down after I give her Motrin. We had a pretty rough night, so I call the pediatrician again and tell them that I want to bring her in to find out why she has this fever. The doctor sees her and starts leaning to the possibility that it might be a UTI so we do a urine test, blood work, and he mentions the flu test as if it's probably not it (since she has no other symptoms) but we better do it just in case. Well, the flu test came back positive. I almost wanted to tear up in the office. No one wants their baby to be that sick, and with how bad the media has been talking about the flu I couldn't help but get worked up. He them explains to me that it most likely is the H1N1 (Swine) Flu because 98% of all flu's right now are the H1N1 virus. (Now I'm really worried) He prescribes her TamiFlu and tells me that it is really hard to find right now and that I might have to try four or five different pharmacies to find it. (Are you kidding me...is it already this big of a crisis and it's only October?) By this time Audrey had fallen asleep in my arms, so I carry my limp, sick baby out to the car and get on the phone on a mission to find TamiFlu. Luckily a small (mom & pop) pharmacy in Tomball had it! So we started the TamiFlu Friday afternoon. By Saturday morning she had no fever and was acting like herself and has been great since. TamiFlu works!!! I called the doctor today to ask some questions and got my answers about that she is not contagious from the point 24 hours after her last fever (which is great news!) and that she can still get her flu vaccines at her 1year appointment in a week in a half. I also double checked about still having her birthday party this weekend, because I am a paranoid mom and I would be weary of going to someones house that just had the flu, but she said that we (and everyone else) is completely safe and not to worry and to have a great birthday! Yay!!! (I'm still going to do a thorough cleaning of the house and her toys...which was on my to do list anyway.)

So like I said Good Riddance Swine Flu!

(By the way, I have no idea where she could have picked it up at. I'm guessing the nursery at church, because no one I know has been sick and we really have not been anywhere lately.)

(Even though she was sick she was still in a good mood (most of the time). Here she picking out a movie to watch and clapping when Finding Nemo came on!)