Okay, I know you don’t really get it from pigs and it isn’t necessarily pernicious, but that title sounds kind of cool, doesn’t it? Anyway, as you have probably guessed, I’m talking about the H1N1 virus, also known as the Swine Flu. Since it seems to have arrived (at least in our house) well in advance of the innoculation for it, I thought it might be useful if I throw out a couple of links that can help parents (and the rest of you who haven’t felt the agony and the ecstasy of raising the wild crumb-snatcher) cope with this viral menace.
As our excellent physician, Doctor Christine Eady, told me, if you are going to do medical research at home, make sure you get your information from trustworthy websites. This is an excellent point. Hearsay, misinformation, and the grapevine aren’t going to do anything but confuse us and possibly freak us out more than we already are, or need to be. With that in mind, here are links to two websites that will give you the straight poop; WebMD and the Mayo Clinic.
That’s it. That’s all I got. Get your information from one of those sites, your family doctor, or at least somewhere trustworthy, take care of yourselves and your kids, and we’ll hopefully all get through this with nothing more than some whining, headaches, runny noses and sore throats. And maybe some diarrhea and vomiting, but the less said about that the better. Nobody around here wants to clean that stuff up, including our Roomba!
