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The Care and Feeding of Illness

In the light of the mounting cases of the flu among my bloggy friends, and the fact that, where I live, even DOCTORS can’t get the H1N1 vaccine, I feel compelled to do what I can to make everyone’s lives just a little bit easier during the (nearly mandatory) ten days when the household goes [...]

Swine Flu 1, The Mother 0

The last time we talked about the H1N1 flu (the flu originally known as “swine flu”), I was telling you all not to panic. I said it was mild, that the deaths in Mexico were probably statistical freakishness, and that, while I supported the draconian measures taken by some public health departments and the CDC, [...]

Whose Snot is it, Anyway?

Way back in the dark ages, the great minds were convinced that you caught cold by being cold. We still have a few people out there who believe that (see: Mothers-in-law). Then folks like Pasteur and Hooke and Jenner and Lister came around and invented the Germ Theory of Disease. It goes like this: your [...]