<p>That is what D1 and her college friends call H1N1 - - someone coughs, and someone else says, “You aren’t giving me The Swine, are you?”. </p>
<p>D2 has it, and it has morphed into pneumonia today. I admit, I rolled my eyes when the pediatrician wanted me to bring her in before giving her prescription cough medicine today. But an xray showed that I was wrong… She seems pretty peppy (hence I just sent her to do some homework), considering.</p>
<p>Who has or has had the swine at their house?</p>
<p>We’ve had it here. Not nice at all. Hubby was knocked out of commission for almost a month. My little guy developed a wicked case of bronchitis. Not a good summer for him.</p>
<p>My brother has been in the hospital for 8 days with H1N1 which led to pneumonia. We’ve also had a couple of fatalities in our community in the last few weeks. One was a 19 year old girl whose funeral is today. The cases at our local state flagship U have not been as severe in nature or duration. My D and her college friends do the same joking but they’re also carrying hand sanitizer and taking vitamins and airborne.</p>