I've definitely turned a corner, though I'm not all clear.
Poor Robert... Thursday is his pill-taking night, and Friday is usually when he gets a NASTY nasty headache from it. So yesterday he forgot to drink coffee, and since we're kind of addicted to caffeine...by the nighttime he was dealing with a caffeine-withdrawal headache, the drug headache, AND a typical flu headache. All on top of each other. I'd had a rotten rotten one the night before, it was going in circles in my head, neck, and face, so boy oh boy did I feel empathy for him!
And E's stuff remains like a kick-butt head cold.
The guys are watching Nightmare Before Christmas...well, E is. R is sleeping on and off. Saturday is his lazy day, as the drug takes heavy effect...it's a drug that boosts the effects of dopamine to block the prolactin receptors (or something like that), basically, which causes sleepiness. The drug and his illness = sleepy.
Wow, it took THREE years to do the stop-action animation for that movie? I can't even imagine having the patience to see something like that through...
Is anyone else as annoyed as we are, that they took Toy Story 2 out of distribution? We were *just* about to get it when it disappeared...I assume that they'll put it back out after TS3 comes out though.
Well, putting those two paragraphs together caused me to toodle around the interwebs (ha), and omigosh, I hadn't realized that John Lasseter and Tim Burton were classmates at California Institute of the Arts! Wild. Burton is actually credited on Fox and Hound, but I remember hearing (probably from the Pixar documentary) that Lasseter worked on it too. They are almost the same age, both worked for a short time with Disney, moved on, and later came back to work more with Disney. Wild!
ranty ranty rant rant rant, do NOT read if not interested in my views of health and illness
So I ended up on the tamiflu website...turns out their concept of flu* is entirely different from the concept I grew up with...and since that concept came from a trusted pediatrician and personal experience, well, I'm going with him.
But anyway, now I'm on the PDF of what the drug is and does...looks like it's based on cell culture assays, and that this drug, in varying amounts, inhibits part of the virus which affects release of viral particles. And they say, right there on their own info, that the "relationship between the antiviral activity in cell cultures and the inhibition of influenza virus replication in humans has not been established." Greeeeaaaaattttt.
And the virus can mutate in response to the drug; they have already named several replacements. And the replacements are made something like 12 times more often with kids than with adults. Double-great. Nothin' better than getting multiple serotype replacements of virii from a treatment for ONE virus!
I love reading product inserts. So enlightening about what they do, and more importantly do NOT, know about the products...
*by their definition, in our household,
I probably had the flu (high and fast fever, came on FAST, not much of a cough, painful chest)...but the guys did/do not. Even though E's been sick much longer and hubby was quite miserable (he finally woke up, saying "ohmygod, it's 2????!!!!?????). Hmm, OK...I'm also much better than they are now! (thank you Eupatorium Perfolatum remedy) Craziness.
But I don't like t-shirts. I like v-neck, and pockets are kinda fun. Hmm... I could get tees for the guys and then a pocket-V for me and just print something out really small for myself, put it on the pocket.
You're right about the Rose Garden - great concert venu. I've seen Page & Plant, RUSH, Dire Straits among others up there 
Just kidding... I wish I could have profound thoughts when I was sick. I just sit there and whine. Feel better soon!
She actually finishes her course of tamiflu tonight. Her fever did break after 3 days and she is back at school, so Im assuming it did some good 
