The H1N1 Fairy has Visited the Mindless Mommy Household

With all her germy sparkliness, the H1N1 Fairy has visited the Mindless Mommy household – not once, but twice. While on a flight to Atlanta last weekend, I wrote about my daughter’s experience with H1N1, Asthma, and a Severe Case of Croup. Last week was relatively quiet in our house but Alexander ended up getting admitted to the hospital Friday night after the Ativan they gave him to stop his seizures caused him to have some seriously hard-core hallucinations.

Unfortunately, the pediatric floor of the hospital was full. As in no…beds..available. The new children’s hospital doesn’t open until next month so they are also working in a smaller pediatric emergency room. We ended up staying in a private room in the ER for the duration of his hospital stay. All around us were children sick with the flu. My hands are still dry from washing them so often but alas, our efforts were for naught. Alexander went from a happy kid yesterday morning to a miserable kid with a 103 fever within two hours.

So now the H1N1 fairy has bestowed her germy sparklies on Alex. He’s in the other room now hacking away but playing video games. Yes, I know, bad mommy, letting him play video games. Hey, he’s sick and so he deserves a little treat, right?

Now I’ve started coughing a bit more and my throat is starting to hurt. However, I don’t have any openings in my schedule until next summer so no H1N1 Fairy, you will not pay me a visit.

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