On Friday my son was diagnosed with the flu after spending the entire night before coughing. All 5 of us were started on Tamiflu to prevent family wide infection. It was difficult to locate the medicine as many pharmacies around here are out of stock.
$300 later I had the 5 prescriptions and we began.
Two days later four of us are coughing, aching and headachy. The only person seemingly unaffected, thus far, is the family member who did not get a flu vaccine…my husband. For the record I’m a big advocate of vaccinations, but, WTF!?!
Ugh. I’m not quite sure how this Tamiflu is supposed to work. All I know is that this house is producing a wide and disgusting assortment of coughs that has kept me awake for the past few nights!
The source of infection and the face that has been within one inch of mine for the past 72 hours or so!
Have you had any experience with Tamiflu?
Yikes! That’s a lot of moola! I’ve never got Tamiflu before…for that much money you would certainly not want to still get all those symptoms! Hope you are all better soon!
thank you! since I wrote this I learned that the med shortens the duration or the flu but doesn’t treat the symptoms…
Oh man!!! I guess that’s good but it still stinks that you have to suffer after forking over that kind of money!
Just that my mom was put on it a few weeks ago and it seemed to help – of course if it isn’t truly the flu and just one of the many viruses going around then the tamiflu isn’t really doing anything and time is the only ‘cure’
yeah we did get a confirmed diagnosis
Sorry to hear that you’re not feeling well. I hope you all feel better soon.
I love your use of the word “cacophony.” I remember when I learned the meaning of that word. It was in my kids’ vocabulary books. Before then, I don’t think I ever heard of it!
My cure for everything and it usually works, is drinking lots of lemonade, right at the beginning of not feeling well.
thanks Mary Ann! I loooove words. My husband calls me a word nerd and always says “who uses words like that?!!” My college roommate used to call me the walking theasaurus
Loving words is a great trait to have and using them properly in sentences or titles is very impressive! Your former teachers would be so proud…
ha thank you!