Two of my kids are sick. Two others don't feel well, the cheese eater won't let me take her temperature and the temporal thermometer works very well...as a doorstop.
I hope they all get sick in the next day or so then I can stop waiting for the other shoe to drop. I can also stop worrying about whether or not my big kids will have to start camp late.
There's a lot of speculation about swine flu, but the pediatricians have stopped swabbing for it, and one pediatrician I know told me that some of his patients who presented with flu like symptoms tested negative for flu. Just a plain old virus. I guess if you're not the H1N1 virus it's like being a backup singer for a major star.
I mean, C'mon. When you call your friends or family and you say your kids have swine flu, that is cool. When you say "my kids have a virus," nobody really cares. I mean no one is making up songs about a boring old virus without a cool name and a WHO designation. Really, wouldn't you rather go to Harvard then University of Phoenix Online?
I mean, how many people does a virus have to infect to get a little respect?
Kidding aside, I found this article fascinating.
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