Does this make us Flying Pig Farmers?

My son - the one who just went thru major eye surgery - had a fever of 101F on Sunday ... we got him into the dr** who wrote him out a prescript 'just in case' it was strep event though the test was negative - and he does have a 'streppy' cough ... didn't blame her ...

Yesterday the fever was just about gone ... it was like 99F ... and I thought for sure he was going to be able to go back to school today - antibiotics the dr gave him. And he was acting fine...

This morning -- 4am -- he is sick as a dog. Fever is back up to 103.3F under the arm (that's 104.3F normal) -- HOLY CRAP!!! There's no way whatever it was was getting touched by the antibiotic ... and it couldn't be the flu - temps with the flu don't get over 102F, that's what they told me last year ....

then to top it all off, he looked at himself in the mirror (he has an obsession with the new eye color) and noticed that there is blood pooled up under his eye lid! Apparently while getting sick, he popped a blood vessel ... it looked nasty, but there was a call to the eye dr just to be sure (they said to give it 4 hours and see, so I won't be feeling any relief until about 3 this afternoon)

So off he goes to the dr's office again. Hubby took a couple of hours off work to take him down and sit since they squeezed him in & double/triple booked ... well ... you got a kid sitthing there coughing up a storm, holding a bucket and having a hard time walking because he is weak kneed from his high fever -- BOOM -- hardly any wait ....

Good News: no more antibiotic, & he won't have to get the Swine Flu shot
Bad News: He tested positive for Influenza A ... though they can't say for sure, they treat all Flu A as Swine Flu.

Great - now there are just 4 others that need to go thru it in the house ... on the up side - dr said if anyone else starts to show signs we can just call the office and they will call in the prescription for us, no need to be seen.

Sigh -- hubby is supposed to go to Boston this weekend for work .... he is considering cancelling it in case I get sick too ... I'm thinking he will get hit with it before I do.

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NOTE: the dr on call was the one dr we refuse to see at the regular clinic. She is the one who twisted my daughter's ankle every which way to see if it was broken even though we had an Xray that showed a break. "well she's not screaming or pulling away" - yeah, ignore the fingernails dug into the exam table, the tears rolling down her face, and the lip she is trying to bite off trying to keep from yelling - so it doesn't really surprise me that she totally missed giving a flu test, was however amazed she gave a prescript 'just in case'