After his bout with swine flu, Malcolm was hoping to get back to school and go on a field trip to Colonial Philadelphia yesterday. This was to tie in with the book the 7th graders are currently reading, all about the yellow fever outbreak. Malcolm is a bit of an expert on plagues. He laid out [...]
Malcolm has swine flu. On Sunday night, despite fabulous seats at an exciting Phillies playoff game, he was apathetic. The next day, when he was coughing, feverish, and saying that it hurt his eyes to look up, I had a sense of foreboding. The pediatrician did a nasal swab Monday night, and on Tuesday the verdict was [...]
I had been looking forward to spending yesterday afternoon with two special “mothers of brothers”, my college roommates, their sons and husbands. Sue had called me a few weeks ago to set the date. Danielle would be making the trip from Short Hills to Pennsylvania for an afternoon play date (for the boys), football (for [...]
I think the Swine Flu outbreak has been over hyped, but I can’t be sure. On one hoof, they are using scary words like “pandemic” and “state of emergency”. But on the other hoof, the deaths in the US are almost non-existent (and so far not local) and patients are responding well to treatment. Should [...]
