I guess it's our turn to be sick.

Nikita woke up this morning with the typical symptoms of H1N1;  fever, sore throat, cough, headache.  I'm not planning to take him to the doctor unless things get significantly worse. 

I am debating how much to quarrantine him from the other kids.  I wouldn't want him to pick up a secondary infection right now.  But I don't see any value in trying to keep the other kids away from his flu.  With this epidemic they'll either get it from him or from someone else.

The policy of the schools has been to stay open no matter how many kids are out sick.  They have slowed down the pace of their teaching and are trying to make it very easy for students to keep up or catch up after an absence.  I think this is a pretty practical approach, especially since it appears that the virus does not affect adults (ie teachers) in the large numbers that are seen with the children. 

This past week the carpool line, which usually stretches out of the lot and the entire lenght of the school property, has been starkly short, maybe only two or three cars at a time.  Yesterday was the first day the line made it out of the lot.

Meanwhile, Nikita is getting copious amounts of Sprite and other fluids, lots of rest and lots of Videos to watch in his room.