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Should I get ds2 tested for swine flu? And how/where?

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Greensleeves · 02/07/2009 17:38

he's been sent home from school today feeling sick and has since vomited twice

he has a temperature and says his legs "won't let him walk" and his throat hurts

there is swine flu in other local schools although I haven't heard of it at his school yet (he's 4)

should I try and get him tested, or is it pointless?

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Greensleeves · 07/07/2009 21:59

thanks you lot, you've made me feel much better

I just got in a terrible flap about it all

you are right, it doesn't matter a hoot whether it was swine flu or some other lergy, we were ill and that's that. And it's up to me when I send my ds back to school, and whether I am OK to work or not

if I make this little boy ill at work, it won't matter what the name of the virus is, will it?

I am a prat about not being believed though, I blame my mother (predictably enough) for her "Oh give over, it's nothing" attitude to everything short of a detached limb

sorry for the histrionics but you are all used to my bullshit by now (that's what I tell myself )

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Fennel · 07/07/2009 22:13

I think everyone is allowed to get in a bit of a flap over swine flu. it's an unknown.

That's nothing, on the histrionics front. I'm moderating my self harm website again tonight, now that really does have histrionics and drama on it.

francagoestohollywood · 07/07/2009 22:17

I just found worms, wriggly ones, in my musli (sp?) How's that for drama?

expatinscotland · 07/07/2009 22:44

'I am a prat about not being believed though, I blame my mother (predictably enough) for her "Oh give over, it's nothing" attitude to everything short of a detached limb'

No need to apologise! Your mother and mine are long-lost sisters. Even now, I'm always exaggerating, apparently. I've somehow even gotten doctors I don't know to fuel my exaggeration. Things like dyspraxia, they're just a product of my over-active imagination .

Needless to say, I don't have a lot of long conversations with my mother, then she wonders why. 'I always say the wrong thing.' Newsflash: responding to someone's every confession with disbelief generally makes you someone they're not going to trust.

Even with DD1, I got, 'I'm sure it's something else.' Even after DS got the call from public health. It was shock all around chez Mama.

I must have made all that up, too.

hazeyjane · 08/07/2009 08:57

Greensleeves, i hope you and your family are feeling a bit better today.

I've been watching your thread with interest, because we are in a similar position with our dd's (3.4 and 2.2). They were really ill from last Thurs (althoug whingy and out of sorts for a few days before that). They were vomiting, temps of 39.5, nasty cough, lethargy, nightmares and dd1 especially was a kind of pale green colour! Dd2 was ill like this for a couple of days and then fine (although still coughing like an old man now), dd2 was ill for ages, and i was worried because she gets asthma. NHS Direct said it sounded like swine flu, but we were too late for the antivirals to make much difference. My GP said that swine flu didn't really involve vomiting (which I was surprised about because all the info I could find on swine flu said vomiting was a symptom).

Yesterday i went out with the dd's for the first time in 5 days, and within half an hour of being out dd1 looked pale and ill again, so i got her home. She has just thrown up a load of phlegmy crap, so it looks like another few days being stuck in worrying about what the best thing is to do.

I can totally understand your indecision, on the one hand if you have a normal virus people expect you to soldier on, on the other if you mention swine flu it is like you have the plague and shouldn't go out for at least a month!I wish it was all a bit clearer! You are not alone in the murky world of (suspected) swine flu

Fennel · 08/07/2009 09:15

GS, I think your GP is just wrong about swine flu, there are loads of reports of people having it, but often mildly, and recovering in a few days:

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/03/swine-flu-london-symptoms-experiences

He just doesn't know. Is he like this in general? Have you considered changing GP? to a younger friendlier one (assuming from the picture you're giving that he's a grumpy old golf-playing git - can you sign up for a young idealistic friendly one instead. we generally have those. (maybe there are lots more of those in inner city Manchester where I know most about GPs though, it attracts that sort. And I avoid the GP here so don't know what they're like).

but he's wrong. hope you are taking the day off and not feeling guilty about it. noone expects you to soldier on with swine flu. stay at home!

francagoestohollywood · 08/07/2009 09:22

My gp surgery was lovely, I can recommend (I actually had a mild crash on one of the docs, but I tend to fancy doctors, as I'm so petit burgeois...)

Fennel · 08/07/2009 09:28

lol Franca, the only time I have been to a GP in Exeter, once in 3 years, I did fancy the GP too. I did think I should start going more.

ScummyMummy · 08/07/2009 09:55

I love my GP- she signed me off for a month the other day (am 8 months pregnant and had a bleeding scare). I got over the "omg! But I'm totally indispensible and only I can finish off everything I need to do properly!" thing far far quicker than I thought I would, I must say... I really do think I am indispensible, actually- only because we are so short staffed atm that everyone is- but somehow it took only minutes to adjust. Wah! And I like to think of myself as dedicated. Hope you're feeling a bit better, greeny. You are clearly a true dedicatedskins and therefore will be my new role model when I return to work after 10 blissful months of maternity leave!

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Greensleeves · 08/07/2009 15:55

the plot thickens

I sent ds2 back to school today after being pressganged by GP, ds2 and dh

he threw up in the queue at hometime and now feels awful and can't go to school tomorrow

so that means I have to ring my work back and say "I know I said I would be back tomorrow, but unfortunately I won't be"

also I have slept most of the day, my chest is worse and I am having those shitty nightmares again - I woke up at one point to find myself standing in the middle of the room having ripped all my clothes off (please don't laugh)

arse fuck arse bollocks cuntbubbles

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Greensleeves · 08/07/2009 16:01

his temperature is 39.5

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 08/07/2009 16:08

You do have flu I reckon and your gp is a poo.

Am so sorry you feel so rotten.

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Greensleeves · 08/07/2009 16:09

just called my boss and she was really nice, told me to write the rest of the week off [phew]

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Fennel · 08/07/2009 16:27

oh greeny don't feel bad, you all have swine flu, stay at home and take it easy. Noone wants swine fluey people around in schools and workplaces.

My colleague has just cancelled meeting tomorrow as her boys have swine flu too.

francagoestohollywood · 08/07/2009 16:45

Oh this is awful. Flu is horrible (not experience of swine flu, but had really bad flu twice. First time I relapsed after one week of feeling okish, I flew to London and ended up ill in bed for the whole week holiday).
Rest, rest, rest.
And ring the surgery back, tell gp that ds is ill again.

littlelamb · 08/07/2009 16:48

Oh Fennel, my GP's surgery must have a 'fitties only' employment policy- there's not one old or ugly one there

Fennel · 08/07/2009 16:54

I have fancied an embarrassing number of hot youngish male gps too.

We're all so predictable.

littlelamb · 08/07/2009 16:57

I could never go to them with something embarassing though. The Horror. I had to get an emergency appointment last year when I had mastitis and one asked if he could have a feel. I was like this>>

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Greensleeves · 08/07/2009 17:14

I had to see a locum at our surgery once about something rather cringeworthy and personal

I was HORRIFIED when I walked in and saw this bronzed athletic torso bursting out of its sexy semi-buttoned shirt and even more horrified when he greeted me with a gorgeous South African accent

the whole room smelled of pheremonesgorgeous manly fragrance

I really think it should n;t be allowed, doctors should be paunchy sexless uncle types with comb-overs and halitosis

luckily my GP is a smarmy git with a face like a welder's bench (as well as being a numpty)

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ScummyMummy · 08/07/2009 17:18

Yay to nice boss and yah boo sucks to crap GP who is clearly wrong wrong wrong. Hope ds2 and you feel better soon.

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Greensleeves · 08/07/2009 17:20

thank you scummy

I am going to make my GP eat dirt tomorrow

I am really grateful for this thread, I thought I was going mad there for a while...

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Fennel · 08/07/2009 17:25

I had suspected mastitis too and the hot young GP suggested he had a look, and I whipped off my tshirt too quickly, I think, he looked quite taken aback. When I checked with dsis (a gp) she said that most patients are a bit reluctant and need a bit of coaxing, you're not expected to just strip off too willingly.

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Greensleeves · 08/07/2009 17:26

lol fennel, any excuse to get yer kit off

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Fennel · 08/07/2009 17:27

well I'm the most modest in this household, the rest of them are far worse.

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Greensleeves · 08/07/2009 17:29

my dh would rather die than denude himself in front of strangers

the first time we spent the night together in Oxford he tried to get into bed with his jeans still on (don't EVER tell him I told the internet you that!)

kids would be starkers all the time if left up to them though, ds1 thinks clothes are a stupid idea

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