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So my middle child (son, aged 13) got the flu last week. I jokingly asked him "how many of your classmates have been to Mexico recently?" He says "two." Crap. So my wife plans to take him to the clinic the next morning as the flu isn't really bad and the odds of it being swine obviously extremely low.

 

On the way in to work the next morning, I see the first headline which talks about cases in Calgary. Crap. So I call the wife to tell her and she says:

"yeah, I'm taking him in. He just passed out in the shower." In talking to him a bit later he said his stomach started to ache (blood directed to the stomach), he got a head rush (blood not circulating properly to the brain), and the next thing he knows he hears his mom saying "call 911." She is a nurse and did not feel his pulse right away because it was at like 40. (The clinic people said all that combined with the shower dialating his blood vessels caused the fainting episode, his first.)

 

Anyway, he goes to the clinic and he just has the regular flu. So crisis averted. But there were certainly some uncomfortable moments there!

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So my middle child (son, aged 13) got the flu last week. I jokingly asked him "how many of your classmates have been to Mexico recently?" He says "two." Crap. So my wife plans to take him to the clinic the next morning as the flu isn't really bad and the odds of it being swine obviously extremely low.

 

On the way in to work the next morning, I see the first headline which talks about cases in Calgary. Crap. So I call the wife to tell her and she says:

"yeah, I'm taking him in. He just passed out in the shower." In talking to him a bit later he said his stomach started to ache (blood directed to the stomach), he got a head rush (blood not circulating properly to the brain), and the next thing he knows he hears his mom saying "call 911." She is a nurse and did not feel his pulse right away because it was at like 40. (The clinic people said all that combined with the shower dialating his blood vessels caused the fainting episode, his first.)

 

Anyway, he goes to the clinic and he just has the regular flu. So crisis averted. But there were certainly some uncomfortable moments there!

As a parent. I would have *hit my pants. That crisis wouldn't have been averted.

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So my middle child (son, aged 13) got the flu last week. I jokingly asked him "how many of your classmates have been to Mexico recently?" He says "two." Crap. So my wife plans to take him to the clinic the next morning as the flu isn't really bad and the odds of it being swine obviously extremely low.

 

On the way in to work the next morning, I see the first headline which talks about cases in Calgary. Crap. So I call the wife to tell her and she says:

"yeah, I'm taking him in. He just passed out in the shower." In talking to him a bit later he said his stomach started to ache (blood directed to the stomach), he got a head rush (blood not circulating properly to the brain), and the next thing he knows he hears his mom saying "call 911." She is a nurse and did not feel his pulse right away because it was at like 40. (The clinic people said all that combined with the shower dialating his blood vessels caused the fainting episode, his first.)

 

Anyway, he goes to the clinic and he just has the regular flu. So crisis averted. But there were certainly some uncomfortable moments there!

Oh boy - that is scary. As a father who has a son the same age (and a wife who is also a nurse - at childrens'), that would be a gut wrencher. Hope he is okay Rick and didn't hurt himself in the fall.

 

Mike.

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rickr .. it's your new president's fault..

 

It was once said that a black man would be president when pigs fly,

Indeed 100 days into Obama’s presidency, swine flu.

 

Hope all is well with your son. Very scary.

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