Panpanic

A quick pit stop between emptying buckets, checking on temperatures and refilling warm water bottles: After Matt came down with swine flu a month ago, we have tried to stay healthy, albeit with moderate success. Jules was prescribed Tamiflu a while ago by the Pandemic National Health Line, but we ended up waiting it out. They are awfully quick with their diagnosis, even if you check NO to most of their questions. Off they send you with an authorization code in your pocket to pick up the miracle drug at one of their ‘collection points.’ In the end, it was only a a very virulent stomach virus, fever and all. And while it is noisily making its round through our family, I am glad that I didn’t combat it with viral cyanide. More than a pandemic, this seems to be a panpanic.