Surviving, but just barely

This past week stating with last Friday my kids have been out of school on Fall Break. I even scheduled with all my babysitting kids to have Monday and Tuesday off. So that I could take my kids to do something fun. We had a whole week of fun things planned! Well someone or something had other plans for us!


Saturday morning Tucker and Emmy both woke up with high fevers and were really sick! I knew it was the Swine flu. My Mom and Sister had both had it the week before and we had been over there! I was not looking forward to this already! I took them to the Urgent Care which was a nightmare in itself and I will spare you all the details. But left there with prescriptions for both the kids. Only to find out that the whole valley was out of this prescription due to the fact that everyone is getting Swine flu! So I was preparing myself for a long week.


Well Tucker seemed to get over it fairly quickly and was better by like Sunday afternoon. Emmy wasn't so lucky, She was sick till about Wed. or Thurs. About Tuesday evening Rylenn and I both got a fever. Ry was one of the lucky ones and was better in a couple of days. Me on the other hand had a temp anywhere from 103.5 to 101 clear till the following Monday. Haydenn got it later in the week, but not so bad. Thank goodness Josh never got it and was a huge help the whole week.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the H1N1 vaccination, but if I knew I was going to be as sick as I was, I probably would have taken my chances with the shot. My kids on the other had weren't so bad and did just fine handling it themselves. So good luck to everyone out there. I hope none of you get it!

P.S. I read somewhere that if you gargle warm salt water or Listerine twice a day that it keeps the virus from spreading in your body and you will get well a lot sooner. Wish I would have known this, I would have tried anything!