H1N1

The Princess seems to have bounced back from her weekend of fever / sniffles / cough, and is back to high energy, full speed ahead.

Her father, not so much. Yesterday he started with the sniffles. And aches. Then the fever.

Today, the flu test. It was positive for Influenza A. The clinic we went to doesn’t do a strain specific flu test, but since “Ninety-nine percent of all subtyped influenza A viruses being reported to CDC this week were 2009 influenza A (H1N1) viruses” and his symptoms fit the model, that’s what they’re calling it.

We went to the Walgreens clinic instead of to his usual doctor because we wanted very badly to get him on Tamiflu before he hit the 24 hours of symptoms mark. His doctor could get him in today, but not until the afternoon, and by the time we got out of there and picked up a perscription it would have been closer to 28 hours. Walgreens, we walked in, waited 5 minutes, swabbed, waited 2 minutes (it can take up to 10, but his test showed positive in less than 2 minutes), and the diagnosis was done.

I just became a big fan of the Walgreens clinic.

So, wash your hands. Stop touching your eyes, nose and mouth. And if you start feeling crummy, go get a flu test as soon as you can.

He’s quarantined for now, and I’m off to pop a few more vitamins and get back to sanitizing the surfaces. Hopefully we’ll get through this without passing it on any further.