Quarantine: the face of H1N1

H1N1 now has a face. And the face doesn't look pretty. Looks like really bad bed-head and unshaven for a few days, and halitosis to boot.

How we got it is still not yet confirmed.
But Tresa got it first on Sunday the first symptoms came out. By Monday it was full blown.

On Monday evening, Kieran got it. And the one difference between the regular flu and H1N1 is that it attacks children much harder. Kieran had super high fever of 40+ for 3 straight days. He was burning up and it was a little scary.

But the little jail bird made it through. His high fever has started to come down. He's lost a few pounds from not eating, but he's on the upswing. But it's still up and down.

And Thursday morning, I started to get the symptoms too. I thought I had evaded the flu, but it got me too.
How do we know it's H1N1? Tresa had to go to work to get tested and on Thursday afternoon the hospital called to say it was positive.

We either got the bug from Tresa's work or what we are thinking is that when we went to Cirque du Soleil, there was a little girl behind us and she was coughing up a lung for the whole entire show. I am sure she was the infected little swine carrier.

People should stay home if they are sick. It's like me taking a ride on the TTC just for kicks with no disregard for other's health. There could have been an older couple in front of them instead of us.

After Cirque we headed to Hong's 40th and coincidentally, Scott and Jimin's son Brennan had the flu this week too.

I also think that with this bug, the symptoms happen much faster. We didn't have the diarrhea symptom (Thank God). But everything else is there fever, chills, aches, cough, headache, and severe dehydration. Do you do anything different for treatment? Nah...just rest, liquids and don't go on the TTC.

I put the Halloween decorations up since our neighbour had done it earlier in the week. Gotta keep up with the Jones' you know. I'm thinking of getting a yellow caution tape that says "This house has H1N1" and record some coughing sounds and leave a bowl of candy and see who comes to the door.

I should write H1N1 house in chalk on the porch.
They will probably think it's a joke, until they start getting symptoms. But hey...they were warned.

(Some nocturnal animal was eating the eye out of Tresa's pumpkin.)

We have the best street in the world. I let a neighbour know I couldn't pick up something from his house cause we got this bug. Next thing I knew we were getting emails and phone calls from neighbours and friends asking if they can get us food and stuff.

wow. Who needs take out?