Now Katie and I have piggy flu, too

I’m official as of yesterday’s doctor’s visit and Katie is official as of this morning’s doctor’s visit.

Melissa isn’t official, but she’s been tired and achy and she has the same ear infection as Natalie and me. I keep kidding her, telling her she’s in denial. She asked Katie’s pediatrician about it. He told her if she didn’t have a fever she didn’t have the flu. Then tonight she got a fever, so we’ll see.

When I saw our family doctor he went ahead and wrote Melissa a Tamiflu prescription, so we’ve got that if she needs it. Katie is now on Tamiflu. My doctor and Natalie’s pediatrician thought we wouldn’t benefit from Tamiflu, because we had been sick too long. You need to start taking it within 48 hours of the onset of fever.

So we’re hanging in there. Natalie seems to be fine now. I’m still under the weather, but today is the fifth day. It should be over soon. With any luck the Tamiflu will keep Natalie and Melissa from experiencing the worst of it.