Geriatric OE: Needles...

Monday 7 November 2011

Needles...

I've been giving lots of flu vacciantions lately and it remineded me the first time I had the flu. It was just before baby number four was born. The whole household was down with it. Husband, and all three of the kids. Guess who still wound up doing dishes, feeding kids (when they were hungry). soothing fevered brows, and dealing with the 101 houshold tasks. Fortunately I had a good friend who did the essential shopping.

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Kathy McInnes Independant Close To My Heart Consultant7 November 2011 at 23:21
and being in the family way all you would have been able to have would have been paracetamol.
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dolphin8 November 2011 at 00:01
We didn't know about avoiding that back then
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