Health – Page 5

I went to the Doctor this past Friday and they asked me if I wanted to get the flu shot.? I was hesitant because I had my mom visiting for the weekend and I really didn’t want to get the flu.? I have heard on several occasions of people coming down with a mild case of the flu from the shot.? After all, they are injecting little bit of the flu into you right?

The Doctor assured me that I would be fine and that the only thing that? might happen would be for my arm to get a little sore.

Friday I was fine.? But on Saturday I started feeling achy.? Sunday it got worse, and now Monday – I really have the flu!? What the heck?? Now my head is pounding and my whole body aches from head to toe.? I was so looking forward to today because my 3 & 4 yr olds are in preschool for a full day.?? I had planned on getting lots of work done today, but that probably won’t happen, because I am having a hard time just typing this post from my bed.

I am interested to know what your thoughts are about the flu shot.? Please leave me a comment and fill out the poll below.? You can pick more than one answer.

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Thanks so much!? I am going to put my laptop back on my desk and lay down and get some rest.

photo credit: Andres Rueda

I have three children who have all been sick over the past several days.? It started with my son who is 4, then passed to my daughter who is 3 and now both me and my baby boy (2 1/2 months old) are fighting it.

It kinda made me laugh in the hospital, after I had the baby, and the doctor said to try and keep my other children away from the baby when they are sick.? I honestly tried over this past week to keep everyone separate, but the more I tried – the more my other 2 wanted to touch and kiss the baby – runny noses and all.? Every hour I would catch my son leaning into the baby’s swing rubbing his yucky nose against the baby’s face.?? I mean it was inevitable that the baby would get sick!

It is really horrible though.? My baby is sooo congested, he can hardly breath.? He is coughing & sneezing and it just about kills me to see such a tiny human being suffer.

My mom has been putting her 2 cents in (2 hours away – by phone) that I need to call the doctor and find out what to do.? She always makes a big deal about stuff and says that I am too lax when it comes to stuff like this.? I promised her that if the baby wasn’t better by Monday I would bring him to the doctor.

When I had my first child, the hospital sent us home with this bulb like thing that I found out later was called a “nose aspirator”.? I had no intentions of ever using it (just like the anal thermometer, but that is another story) until my little one got so sick at 4 months old and needed help getting the snot out of his nose.

So, I have to admit, that YES I have used “The Bulb” on my children on more than one occasion.? Now that my 2 older ones can blow their own noses, it has been nice not having to worry about “The Bulb”.? I put it away quite a while ago until my husband told me that I needed to get it out yesterday and use it on our new baby.

Boy do I hate that thing!

How the heck do you use it?? How far do you stick it in their nose?? What direction should it be pointing – back?? up?? I never can get the thing to work right!? After much struggle yesterday afternoon, as my husband looked on and the baby was screaming bloody murder – finally – frustrated and at the end of my rope, I tossed “the bulb” to my husband and told HIM to do it.? And of course, he cleared the baby’s nose without a problem.? Go figure!

So, the reason I am bringing this up, is because I am wondering how you all feel about this torturous tool – the Nose Aspirator.? Are you FOR it?? or AGAINST it?

Please take some time to comment on your own experiences.? Maybe I won’t feel so bad if you all feel the same as I do!? LOL