My Pillow

Ta-da! It is finished. It gets to live at the quilt shop for a while and look cute atop the embroidery display. It is nice to have a smaller project because it gets done faster. It does look lonesome for a quilt to set it on. I need a house full of bedrooms and cold people!

Today is the beginning of the four day weekend for teacher's convention. We have wanted to go out to Missoula to visit for the last two years. It should be a good time, but this year the crop season is slow and there is still corn in the field trying to dry. The weather has been cool and damp and we never did get that indian summer period we hoped for. The dilemma is will it be dry enough to combine over the next four days? If so, we should stay here. If it is too wet, we will be sad we didn't go. We lost Thursday because of meetings and work. We can't have Monday because of CTBS testing at school. It is looking dismal.

I did take the days off at work, but I will put myself back on the schedule. It is so busy with flu.

season. We are out of test kits, the pharmacy has low supplies of Tamiflu. I saw two families from Dickinson and one from Baker yesterday. So far, all our patients have recovered, but families are afraid. Some schools have 30-40 kids out sick. I did recommend one daycare close since the sick baby lived in the household and they couldn't separate the baby with its own caretaker from the rest of the kids.

I remember being sick with "Hong Kong" flu as a child. Perhaps that is why I'm not getting sick after daily exposures now. I did get my swine flu vaccine Tuesday, two weeks after the first case. Most of our patients tested positive for H1N1 when the state was doing testing. Now I just assume a patient with influenza A is the H1N1 sub-type. I can empathize and give cough medicine and anti-nausea medicine, but I can't cure it. The body's immune system does the work, and will remember this virus for next time.

Wash your hands, don't hang out with people who are sick, and trust God to watch over you. I will try to be more cheerful next time.

Much Love, Marmee