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Originally Posted by Peanut
Hey All,
Thanks for the kind words and thoughts for our daughter. For those who are wondering, we just got home from the hospital a short while ago with our daughter. Her fever broke last night and her tests all came up negative for basically every possibility of infection except viral. It will take a few more days for the results to come back officially, but they sent us home with Tamiflu and the understanding that she has/had some sort of flu, perhaps H1N1.
The precautions they are taking are pretty intense. She was in "isolation" which meant no-one could enter her room or handle her without gloves, gown, mask, and goggles. There were numerous other kids on her unit in the hospital in isolation as well. ER was nutty, we waited for 9 hours to get admitted to a room in the hospital.
One nurse told us that staff levels are already reduced by 30% due to illness. It's one thing to read all the "media-hype", but seeing it firsthand... honestly, it doesn't really feel like hype.
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Glad to hear that things are looking up. I think your experience shows how the vaccination effort isn't so much about patient mortality but about morbidity and subsequent stress on the health care system. Unfortunately, with how badly this provincial government has mismanaged the system, it will only get worse.