The Cancros: H1N1

I suppose I should have expected it. After all, Chris is bathing in his patients' germs all day. H1N1 is ALL over the hospitals and clinics. It was bound to happen. Last week, the Cancro family came down with the Swine Flu. Blech. We left for a resident retreat for the weekend and Chris started feeling pretty crappy that Friday. By Monday, he was feverish and shaking with chills. Despite religious dedication to Clorox-wiping, hand-sanitizing and Lysol-spritzing...Ava and I got it too. For Chris is was a hard and fast fall but he got over it pretty quickly. He was back to work on Thursday. Ava and I gradually got it and then it gradually left. Fortunately, we're better but there were some casualties. We had plans every single day last week because of Halloween. We missed EVERYTHING. Yeah...I know...sucky wah wah. Then, my mom came up to nurse us back to health...okay, really to cook and do 8 loads of laundry. But still...she is now sick. I feel badly but she swears that it was worth it. Ava "miss-I'm-too-busy-to-cuddle" slept in her lap for an hour.

We did try to put her in her clown costume and knock on a few doors (of people we knew wouldn't mind us popping by) in our apartment complex but she was NOT a happy little Bobo.

She refused to wear the wig.

But she LOVED wearing it the other day.

The pediatrician suggested that we vaccinate her anyway for H1N1 because they didn't swab her nose to find out conclusively. They just put her on Tamiflu as well as an antibiotic because she had an ear infection as well. Poor little girl. On Monday we waited in line for 3 hours to get the shot. Ugh... But, we're on the mend and no longer under a self-imposed quarantine. That's about it for us. Enjoy the pics.

Pouncing on Daddy after work!