Chipper and Billy enjoy the full moon

[Marianne Marlow]

What happened if you don't mind me asking?

Oct 10, 2022 10:19:52 GMT @loz said:

I was persuaded by work to get a flu jab in 2013.
Subsequent events made me vow, Never again.

[Loz]

Marianne Marlow, I came down with flu symptoms during an eight-hour flight to my new job a few days after the jab. I spent the first week there dealing with the weirdest working conditions I'd ever encountered whilst coping with the equivalent of flu. Before that it had been years since I'd been properly ill.
My Dad had had the flu shot each year, he got ill every year. He never used to be ill, rarely got flu, until he started taking the jabs. His repeated experiences plus my one-off have a bearing on my decision.
It makes no sense to me to get jabbed and get ill each year rather than take one's chances and suffer flu every four-eight years (my normal recurrence).

Never mind the new risks represented by the upcoming mRNA version of flu jab!

[tweetiepiesmom]

The flu shot here in the US has egg albumin. Since I'm allergic to eggs, I don't get the shot.

[jellybean]

I think that's the same one as here in the UK, TPM.

[jellybean]

Marianne, would Eve use the Neti Pot, I've just been reading that children as young as 2 years old can use them.

Any news on how she is today 🙏🤞

[Marianne Marlow]

Not a hope JB. She wont ever do what we ask her to.

I have had a couple of video calls and she cried that she wants to come home to mummy. But she wont drink or eat.

Even though she was told that if she drank half her juice then she could come home, she refused to do it. She even kicked a nurse that tried to give her medication to get her temperature down.

As much as we love her, she is an exceptionally difficult child.

Oct 10, 2022 15:39:02 GMT jellybean said:

Marianne, would Eve use the Neti Pot, I've just been reading that children as young as 2 years old can use them.

Any news on how she is today 🙏🤞

[ladybird]

What’s a neti pot? Poor Eve hope she gets better soon….. Sorry, but I did laugh when you said she kicked the nurse 😁……..Sounds like the terrible twos?

[tweetiepiesmom]

Poor little Eve having to be away from home and mum and not understanding what's going on. Hope she gets better soon so she can come home.

[Marianne Marlow]

Yup. Still the terrible two's even though she's 3 and a half

Update: Paul just called and said that they will be allowed to come home after Eve has had her next IV antibiotics. But she's going to have to start drinking. Nurses will come to our home and give her IV antibiotics as she will not take them by mouth.

Any downturn, and if she continues not to drink and she'll have to go back to hospital.

[jellybean]

Oct 10, 2022 16:13:37 GMT ladybird said:

What’s a neti pot? Poor Eve hope she gets better soon….. Sorry, but I did laugh when you said she kicked the nurse 😁……..Sounds like the terrible twos?

The easiest way to explain ladybird, is to ask Mr Google.....All will be revealed 😂

[jellybean]

Is she open to bribery Marianne, anything to try and get her to drink and take her meds.

[Marianne Marlow]

Nope!

Oct 10, 2022 16:24:19 GMT jellybean said:

Is she open to bribery Marianne, anything to try and get her to drink and take her meds.

[ladybird]

Silly me……have just looked, don’t fancy that myself 😱😱..

[jellybean]

If you suffer from sinus problems at all ladybird, you would consider it the greatest invention on planet earth....Honestly 😂😂

[tweetiepiesmom]

Eve is one stubborn child! I was like that also. Maybe once she's home with everything familiar around her, she'll start doing what she's supposed to do.