Update on Emily's H1N1

Early this afternoon we got a call from the ED at Stanford saying they had just heard back from the County virology unit that Emily's test for Influenza A came back positive. H1N1 is Influenza A and the county says that %99.9 of influenza A is H1N1 virus, so Emily is a positive for it. They had already started Tamiflu treatment in the ER, so all we were supposed to do was to continue with the treatment.

I went to Target to get Tamiflu to find that they didn't have any of it. Not only did they not have it, but Emily requires the liquid version. She can swallow pills fine, it's a dosage issue I expect that she needs the liquid. I asked Target to call Walgreen's which they did, and luckily the county had just dropped off doses of liquid Tamiflu there. Since they were from the county Walgreens could not charge me for the medication, so thanks to Santa Clara county not only did we get the medication, it was also on the tax payer.

Emily is doing REALLY well. Her only fever was the original one that brought us into the hospital. That fever broke around 6am this morning. She is conjested but not too much worse than a bad cold. I would say her energy level is a little low. But really this is very mild and at this point I am not too worried about it. Since her ANC was 2400 she is continueing on %100 chemo, even though she has H1N1.

I will have an update tomorrow.