Last night a girl among the group of kids we were watching suddenly came down with symptoms of dizziness, so bad she couldn’t walk, nausea, pain in her head, she was crying.. like, out loud, uncontrollable crying. We called her mother, she came and got her, went straight to Urgent Care.. we were like, oh NO. We’ve been sitting here exposed for hours and all the other kids too.. oh NO.
But what’d she have? A raging ear infection. Not even a little bit contagious. After starting on antibiotics, she was fine today.
Just goes to show where panic thoughts lead you.
signed,
lainie (also) in L.A. County
Your story is one of the MANY reasons I’m wondering about the major hype this whole thing may or may not have been...
I’m SO glad she’s “ONLY” got an ear infection...
The worst story I got from around here was a healthy 43-year-old woman staying in Fresno about a week before we’d heard of the swine flu, for a conference with colleagues. She went up to her hotel room because she was feeling kind of ill, and said she’d meet the others later. She called the hotel operator after about an hour, asking them to call 911 because she was having trouble breathing. When the paramedics got there soon after, she was dead. The person who told it to me did not know if they had retroactively checked if it had been the flu.