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Originally Posted by Momziller  Dh and one of our sn kids had the porky flu in the spring. Oldest dd is currently recovering from it. From what I've seen with our first 3 family cases, and 2 of these cases were high risk, I tend to side with no H1N1 vaccine. 3 of us have, however gotten our yearly flu shots (only 5 more to go!).
I think when I got to 5 or 6 kids I started getting flu shots after bately surviving a family bout of the flu. I realized at that point I'd rather drink hemlock if it meant trying to nurse a family with flu again when I was just as sick as the rest of the motley crew.
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I can so relate! My then 3 yr old ds and myself got the Type A influenza when I was a single mom at the time. I had a fever for five straight days. On the evening of the second day of my flu he came down with it. This is an ADHD kid that NEVER sat still. He came home from daycare and layed down in front of the tv and did not move a muscle for 2 hours. We were really sick. We spent a solid week in bed. I think we watched the Follow That Bird vhs tape about 8000 times! lol I remember gathering up enough strength to go make us some canned chicken noodle soup and then being exhausted after the effort. I ended up missing two weeks of work between my recovery and my sons. It's was really bad. I have gotten a flu shot every year since then (that's 22 years now). Maybe it was a really bad strain that year because it was awful. My sister dropped off some food and more 7-up at my door for me but otherwise I had no help and it's really hard to be that sick AND take care of others.