Wednesday 15 July 2009

oh. right.

so yes, it is swine flu after all. poppy was couriered out tamiflu this evening, and now we're supposed to be quarantined, with all the calpol and soup that we thoughtfully stockpiled a month ago. or, as the case may be, we did not. rudy has an educational psychology assessment tomorrow and no swine flu diagnosis (yet). there's only one of me.

hm. what would elizabeth taylor do?




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14 comments:

  1. Mommy!!!!!!that's how I would feel.

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  2. oh my fucking god, is everything ok? get your boyfriend up asap. shit. shit. fuck.

    oh my god poor poppy. i don't know what to say. shit your all going to get it. did they protect you guys, give you anything?

    how is she doing?

    oh fuck.

    i guess you have to phone up and explain. shit.

    i cant believe it. sorry, i know your not making it up, its just fuck.

    sorry most useless comment in the world.

    everything is going to be ok. you all have to stay in. perhaps a neighbour could get you some food etc, if you have their phone number (or can knock loudly through the wall?!) fuck.

    how are you.

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  3. hello!

    i'm fine at the moment, thankyou, but pops had a bad night- raging temperature, terrible headache and sore throat, sickness, generally v. weak, so we each got about an hour's sleep.

    rang the school this morning who just said "thanks for letting us know". rang the nursery who said "waaah! let's cancel!" my mum arrived ("muuuuuummyyyyy!";-)... she already had it just after glastonbury, we think, but because she is not under 5, asthmatic or over 60 it wasn't formally diagnosed)with calpol and bananas. poppy slept all day, rudy stayed in with mum, and i went to asda and bought all the stuff so that we could quarantine ourselves. i am not sympotomatic at all and was making very free with the antiviral wipes, you'll be pleased to know.

    it's all a bit all over the place organisationally. my sister who has no symptoms whatsoever was basically escorted out of work by hr (she's a lawyer), but my boyfriend who is really suffering and has been since the weekend is being bugged incessantly to go in- he's done about 20 or so hours this week with it at his employers' insistence (he is a construction exec.). people are coming down with it like flies. bf is concerned because my brother is living with him at the moment and has his graduation ceremony next week.

    got home to loads of phone messages and offers of help from friends, and the nursery girls are lovely, and poppy's teacher just called me to send pops her love and let me know that she is not the only one in the class... one of the little ones in p's reception class has cerebral palsy and he came down with it very suddenly in class this morning, which is a worry. one of p's best friends has it also. there's are wierd dystopian- feeling inevitability to it all- folks keep saying it's best to get it now. poppy much perkier now, i got home to her poring over emma watson in vogue (this is normal), but obv. still a bit week because she hasn't really kept anything down other than lucozade since monday.

    rudy's a bit snotty. if he gets any worse i'm straight on the phone because he's only a slip of a lad, but i'm not panicking. i've got lemsip. x

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  4. arrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhh I didn't subscribe to comments and I thought I did, gah, phew, *exhales*

    would it cheer you up if I said Egg was playing with my tall lamp, using the top as a steering wheel. with the light ON? my anxiety is through the roof.

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  5. have a lemsip, darling! what wonderful imaginative play (she said, as her son emptied out an entire molton brown giftset into the toilet not 48 hours previously).

    i'm alright, headache and blaaaaargh. poppy is lots perkier, but probably still not up to going back to school before the end of term. rudy's temperature is up, he has the dry cough and loss of appetite so i have asked the doctor for a tamiflu script and a friend is picking it up and putting it through the door (as yet undaubed with a crude mark of the swine)because she is a star.

    *raises lemsip*

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  6. ps. bf got a letter this morning regarding company policy regarding swine flu. "stay at home" it said. "yeah, right", said bf, shivering in his site office.

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  7. pps. but he's gone home now.

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  8. ppps. i'm not just using this as excuse to abuse over the counter painkillers. promise.

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  9. oh my! poor kiddos. Keep us posted.

    wouldn't it be a shame if that rude neighbor/interloper came down with it too....

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  10. hey you guys ok. i m sure you are just too busy to blog, or like me, can't be arsed. but just incase, let us know you guys are ok

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  11. swine flu is a bitch. but other than that ok x

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  12. *kicks swine flu in the c...lady bits*

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