H1N1
Tony started getting a cold Saturday night. He was in his "sick mode" all day Sunday, which consists of constantly asking me if he has a fever and moaning that he "doesn't want to die." Of course this time he could throw in the H1N1 (or Hiney, as he calls it). So I also got the constant "do you think I have the hiney?" And we run through the symptoms and decide he doesn't. I'm not saying he's not sick. He does have a fever and is obviously not feeling well. I just think he overreacts a bit. I made him red chile mexican chicken soup for dinner last night and he was asleep by 9:30. I went to bed about 10:30 and was deep asleep at 12:30am when he woke me up saying he had unberable body aches and felt really hot and needed to go to the emergency room.
I have to say, now that Tony is on my insurance and the emergency room is at Summit instead of Oakland Kaiser, this trip to the emergency room was a world of difference. He was in with a doctor within 15 minutes and we were done and out of there by 2am. Bottom line, he did have a temperature of 101.6 (not 106.1 as the first screening nurse told us), but the doctor is extremely doubtful that he has the hiney. However, given the fact that Tony teaches at a school in the mission, where lots of kids have been out sick, and given some of his symptoms, the doctor did swab for the hiney and sent the swabs off to the CDC. We'll know the results in 2 days. The consensus is that he has the regular flu or a very bad cold.
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