Hello friends,

    Just thought I'd update those of you who are wondering.  My son (who has the swine flu) is doing good.  The high fever lasted a couple of days.  He now has a bad cough and his stomach hurts (from coughing), but I can tell he is getting better.  The dr said swine flu is really no worse than any other flu we have had in the past.  It is just scary because it is something new (still a danger to compromised immune systems, young children, and elderly).  The good news is this strain responds well to Tamifu. . .as long as they don't run out of it. 

    I am still praying my husband and I don't get it.  I've had a low grade fever and have felt a little blah, but I have no other symptoms.  Maybe the Tamiflu is preventing it from becoming full blown flu. 

    I haven't seen my other two kids in almost 2 weeks (due to us being gone to youth camp & then the flu).  I guess I'm going to leave them with my parents another week until we know for sure this is over and they won't run a risk of catching it.  We had to postpone my daughter's 6th birthday party.  I sure do miss them.

    Our church has had about 10 cases so far.  The other church that was on youth trip with us (from a town about 10 min. away), has had 18 out of 25 people on the trip come down with it so far.  Needless to say, it is highly contagious.  It is all across the U.S. now, so I think it is going to be inevitable this fall unless they come up with a vaccine. 

    As far as NS goes, I'm trying to just eat healthy until this is over.  I appreciate all my NS friends' support!  I can't wait until life is back to normal again!

Alicia