Sweet Disarray

So now, rather than thinking we all have different bugs, Yubo has put it in my head that we all have H1N1.

UGH!

I refuse to get all worked up about the dreaded swine. It's the flu. It's perhaps a bit more dangerous than a typical flu strain, which can be dangerous but in the vast majority of cases pass without incident.

I'm watching for warnings signs that something is seriously amiss, but aside from the fact that K still has a low-grade fever after a brief respite, the Niagra Falls of runny noses and diarrhea and C now has a cough/weird voice (but no fever), I think they are mostly okay (kind of, not really). I'm most concerned about K right now. He has had diarrhea since last Monday. It got better (i.e. more solid), but yesterday it was pretty much liquid again. (I know! TMI! But he's a baby. Baby poop is fair game.) He's still drinking and not dehydrated so I'm not too worried. Just enough to disturb my sleep at night. (Heh.)

The irony is that I did mean to get the kids vaccinated. C actually got the first dose (of both H1N1 and seasonal flu), but then he was sick when it was time for the booster dose and then our insurance changed because of Yubo's new job and we didn't have a new pediatrician lined up. Our pediatrician only had flu mist available at the time and that isn't approved for children under 2 so K was not vaccinated. I can't even remember if I got vaccinated for seasonal flu or not, but I'm pretty sure I didn't. I have been getting the vaccine every year since I was pregnant with C, but with the insurance/move thing, I guess I just let it slide this year.

Whatever this is - and I'm pretty sure it's some sort of flu - it sucks. Boo!