on this day...

Big Little Boy was born 4 years ago, almost to this minute ... and my life, and the way I think about things, and love things, changed instantly, and forever. The smallest things became more important, and the need of having my children surrounded by loving family became even more paramount. I now yearn to have the warmth and security of my extended family around me.

I am still riding the wave of wonderful feelings that my extended family brought us, this past weekend!

A quick thought on inconsistancy...

I have more in my queue to post but I have not had time to edit yet ... i will post it soon, I promise.

okay ...

so in my throws of "this had BETTER not be Swine Flu" the past few days, I did some looking up of what symptoms make Swine Flu, Swine Flu and not some other Flu ...

And some of the symptoms are sudden high fever, sore throat, diarrhea, vomiting ... (check, check?, check, no check...)

and then something occurred to me ...

Do you know every year how they have those specialists come on saying "If you are vomiting, you DON'T HAVE THE FLU, you have FOOD POISONING... the FLU does not make you throw up yadda...yadda...yadda....".

okay, I have had the Flu and food poisoning, and you know what? I threw up with BOTH. anyway ....

One of the symptoms of Swine Flu is VOMITING.....

so what gives? If you call in the the doctors office and tell them your symptoms, are they going to think that you don't have SF if you did not exhibit one of the major signs ... throwing up? OR are they going to say "You don't have the Flu because you threw up. If you throw up, you obviously have food poisoning.".

I have had rather "heated" arguments with people on this whole calling illnesses the Flu or not, and this recent thing just gave me the ammo to shout "oh yeah? Well with Swine Flu, vomiting IS one of the symptoms!!! -- SO SUCK IT".