Oink? Oink, or half an oink??
Harry was unwell last Saturday (7th November). He woke up feeling bad and by about 9am had a temperature. He had all the flu symptoms just like Yoshi had, and by 2pm his temperature was up to 39.9C so off we went to the hospital. He was so sick he couldn't stand up and Seiju had to carry him in to see the doctor.
The test was negative but apparently more than two thirds of them are, as often the virus has not had time to build up. Still, judging by the symptoms it was flu, so Harry got all the Relenza and stuff that Yoshi got a couple of weeks ago, and we came home.
Gave him the first dose of everything and put him into bed. He slept hard and very heavily for about three hours. I kept going in to check on him because I was worried about him, but he slept till about 7pm when he woke up soaked in sweat. His clothes were wet, so was his bed, and his hair looked like he'd just gotten out of the bath. His temperature was down to 38C, though. Poor Harry was a bit disorientated as he thought it was the next morning and couldn't understand why it was dark.
Seiju gave him a bath while I changed the bed, and we tucked him up again for the night. He slept fairly peacefully though he did call out a few times for me, and he said he had strange dreams. Sunday morning the temperature was almost gone, though he said that he felt weird and his legs were "fluffy". He lay on the sofa all day and by Sunday night he was back to normal!
It was just like watching the progression of Yoshi's flu in fast forward mode! So, did he have it or not???? And what to do about school which has a rule of not going in for 48 hours after the flu fever comes down? In the end I called the school on Monday morning, and on balance the head decided that he wanted Harry to stay away for a day, so we had a quiet day at home. That was the same day as Yoshi's school open class, unfortunately. Harry agreed to be left for a couple of hours if I kept my cellphone on all the time. Yoshi and the rest of the kids were dismissed early so the parents could have a meeting with the class teachers, so I sent him back to look after Harry. By the time I got home they were peacefully curled up in the armchair together watching telly.
Harry's right back at school and perfectly fit again. What a mystery. Or he's Super Strong Flu-Repelling Man. Wonder which??
4 comments:
Hi Vicky, glad to hear Harry recovered so quickly. Mei was a bit the same, fever Sat night , went to hospital, told it was Swine flu, given relenza and other meds, by Monday morning no fever and feeling fine. (Back to school tomorrow,)surprised me how quick she recovered, thought it would be a lot longer.
Super Strong Flu-Repelling Man! I love it, so funny. : ) : )
I'm sorry to hear Harry was sick but glad he recovered so quickly! : )
I am glad he is feeling better. Likely it was the flu but he just was able to shake it off faster for one reason or another.
I would vote it was probably the flu - I had one kid with a positive diagnosis, and one without, but they both had virtually identical symptoms, and my kids temps got up to only 89.9 max... there was hardly any time that they seemed really under the weather. Most of the time they were semi-happily watching TV. I think this flu does tend to come and go pretty quickly (except for when there are complications), and not all kids end up with really I was surprised because sometimes my younger son gets things worse than other kids.
Both mine had relenza too - I was really happy with it, but heard that some kids get side-effects (nausea or something?).
The only difference my two had is that big brother (who got a positive diagnosis) was left with a lingering cough, and little brother was not. I really do hope my younger son had H1N1, though, so we can be over with it.
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