omg swine flu 303!!!

[Nai]

FC - I know it is bad and we are concerned mainly for our 3month old. Not to mention the elderly we were in contact with on Sunday at Great Aunty's 80th and the wedding we went to on Saturday where the bride has chronic fatigue! You don't have to pay for the test as long as you are a "suspected case" so you have to prove that you were in contact with a confirmed case to get the free test.

Let me just say that the GP had 4 families in isolation rooms waiting for the DHS to confirm that he could test for swine flu. Apparently they had no record of the original confirmed case (the one that they called the childcare centre to let them know about). So I called childcare to get the case number. Now DHS apparently say that the case number is "confidential" and we needed to have the child's NAME (so the case number is confidential but the name is not - go figure!). Anyhoo after wrangling a 3yo in a face mask in isolation for 2.5 hours we were finally given the go-ahead to get a test done.

[Inanna]

Mmmm that's strange isn't it. The process isn't nearly so difficult here - it would have been difficult to do all that waiting...

[Nai]

Fortunately DP was doing the wrangling and I was home with the baby as I didn't want to take her to the Dr. It was apparently very difficult but the process was certainly the worst part. You would think that with Vic having the most cases they would have managed to get their acts together *sigh*

The childcare centre hasn't closed yet either as DHS advised it can still stay open - I think that's the main problem with the spread is that the response just isn't quick enough and people come into contact with the virus before action has been taken.