As many of you already know, the first weeks of pregnancy were pretty rough with me. The last 2 or 3 weeks have been totally amazing though and I've been out living life, having fun and eating like a pig! Hooray!
Today I had to get a repeat prescription as I'm still taking anti-emetics, which are enabling me to carry on with life and enjoy my pregnancy. When I got there, I let out a cough. Doc started asking me about it. Yes, I have had a cough for a few days, I don't really have a temperature, I have had a sore throat and not been feeling too great but it's nothing compared to either CH or the weeks of constant sickness I had not so long ago and I've been getting along just fine (other than a small fainting spell I had in a pharmacy on Saturday morning, but that is part of pregnancy for some women).
Apparently, I'm displaying 'flu-like symptoms'. I was taken to a room where another doctor was wearing a plastic apron, a mask and rubber gloves. He took my temp, BP, looked in my throat, listened to my chest etc... And yes, I have mild-flu like symptoms. Surely that could just be a COLD??? Oh no. So now, just as I'm getting back into work full time (I've only been back properly for 2 weeks after being off 4 weeks for honeymoon then 8 weeks with hyperemesis) I can't go to work until Thursday and even then, only if all my symptoms have gone away. The doc himself even told me that so far, it seems like swine flu is milder generally than our usual strain of flu, which has mutated and been around the globe and learned how to attack us efficiently.
I totally appreciate that other people out there could catch it from me and suffer worse than I am, but what is the point if they won't even give me a straight answer. They won't tell me I have flu or I don't. I haven't been given anything to treat it because it is mild, but poor Stephen is also now trapped here because when I called work, they said it was best for him to stay home too. Again, he was in all day today. Isn't that a little late to keep him home? I went into town shopping on Sat, I was in work last week when the cough started. Surely the incubation period has already passed now...
Is this an overreaction or am I just feeling a bit put out by all this as it was unexpected?
Oink, oink...

xx
PS - Though it isn't a joking matter for some, my sis did wonder if maybe my poor munchkin would be born with a snout? Made me laugh...