Posted: 8/28/2009 7:41:49 PM EDT
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Looks like cases have gone from 1 to 35 in around 4 days here in Fairbanks.
I've been out of work for a week with it. It is not fun. It attacked my lungs within 24 hours of going active...fairly certain whom I caught it from. One of my patients. I called the mom of the patient Wednesday, the patient is at home sicker than a dog...hard time breathing as well...they were to have taken her to the hospital yesterday but, I've been at home so do not know. I'm also not one that is counted in the figures...Though I am fairly certain that's what hit me. I've pushed all of my patients out until next week. Chest is still f'd up but, on the recov side of things. Worst I've been sick in around 20 years that I can think of. |
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Well, keep us posted as you hear anything. Figure my customer base at work is people heading out to go hunting, so probably not carriers. (unless they are shedding but not showing symptoms yet) but am worried about my wife. People go to book stores to get reading material when they are sick.
Any advice you'd give? Shame I'd look funny wearing my hazmat gear at frontier lol |
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Well, keep us posted as you hear anything. Figure my customer base at work is people heading out to go hunting, so probably not carriers. (unless they are shedding but not showing symptoms yet) but am worried about my wife. People go to book stores to get reading material when they are sick. Any advice you'd give? Shame I'd look funny wearing my hazmat gear at frontier lol What I did wouldn't be recommended. The fever hit at about the same time it hit my sinuses and lungs. I broke the fever as I normally break one. Extra blankets and a jug of water by the bed. I'm not a doc type...I do hearing problems. Not in the mainstream on this. Doc friend has told me that the way I break fevers will eventually kill me  I told him it's worked for 30 years so if so, ((shrugs)). Not like I'd be around to worry about it.
I would say that if you get sick, and you cannot shake it in a day or two...especially out of the chest. I'd get in to get some help. Also, you need to cough, cough into your elbow...do not use your hands unless you plan on sterilizing your hands every few minutes. And when it does take off...have something to spit in, and a roll of TP handy to clear, and reclear your sinuses. |
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Well they said my 2 girls and i have the swine.
Did not give my girls anything. Just told us to do what we are doing. Ended up getting steroids in iv and some pain killers. Gave me 3 nebs to loosen up my lungs. X-ray was clear they said. 
Sent me home and if thing keep up to go back on monday. Lungs still feel like hell with junk in them. Short of breath an hr after getting out. 
This going to a fun few days. Tons of people at the er. |
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10 year old dies in Anchorage
Swine flu kills Fairbanks boy
By Todd Walker, CBS 11 News Created: 09/06/2009 09:53:25 PM AKDT A 10-year-old Fairbanks boy is the state's first child to die from the H1N1 flu virus, commonly known as the swine flu. State health officials confirmed that Sunday afternoon during a news conference. The boy's name has not yet been released. "So we have confirmation that this child did indeed have H1N1 influenza," said state epidemiologist Dr. Beth Funk. He was an otherwise healthy child. His last visit to the doctor was two years ago, but just over 24 hours after being sent home from school on Thursday, the 10-year-old died in an Anchorage hospital. "Early in the morning," Funk said. "A little after midnight on Friday morning the child was taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital where he was admitted." He didn't respond well to the treatment and was medivacked to Anchorage. "At the time he arrived at Providence Hospital he was severely ill and was requiring major resuscitative efforts which proceeded for several hours," Funk said. "And he was pronounced dead at about 10:30 on Friday evening. We are not aware of any other situation in Alaska that has been this severe and this rapid." The boy's rapid decline is concerning health officials and they say he may have also had some sort of bacterial infection and are still trying to figure out the exact cause. For most the swine flu is no more serious than the regular seasonal flu, but there are some for who it can be deadly. "It's a balance," Funk said. "We want people to take it seriously." But not to panic. So far the virus has not mutated into something more serious, which is good because it is the predominant strain of flu in Alaska. "If that [test] comes back positive then you can assume it's H1N1 influenza," Funk said. "Because that's the only thing that is circulating right now." On Wednesday an 11-month-old baby died and it is suspected swine flu caused complications with other medical issues. The Department of Health & Social Services is expecting the first doses of the swine flu vaccine to arrive in the state in the first or second week of October. Prayers out to family... 
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