But you look so well!

I went to the pharmacy and was able to get enough paracetamol to keep the family going for a few days. Because they could see my record on their computer they were able to let us have more than the normal amount of paracetamol. It was that or taking the whole family there with the lurgy.

We then went into our local town and managed to get loads of lemon decongestant drinks. It looks as if we have gone mad and got far too many. But as I pointed out to my parents if you think that each person takes 8 paracetamols a day and there are 5 people needing that at the moment then the numbers add up.

Our pharmacist asked about symptoms and then told us that it sounded like we may have swine flu. If that is the case then 5 have it here. I am not feeling so unwell, but then again I take morphine for my arthritis and lupus joint pain. So of course that would mask symptoms.

Our daughter has slept all day on and off. She is sitting in an armchair now sound asleep. Will probably leave her there and sleep on the sofa so she has help if she needs it in the night.

My joints are so painful tonight. Because others in the family are feeling so unwell, I ended up doing more driving than I am used to. I did 4 trips into town, so I drove about 8-10 miles. It has left me hurting. Still if I am going to sleep downstairs I will watch TV. It is the best thing to help me sleep. I sit down to watch something and wake up at the end, or miss the programme all together.

Hopefully the bug in our home will turn out to be a cold or something other than swine flu. But as our daughter had two girls in her class with it then the chances of her getting it are fairly reasonable.

The family are all going down with similar symptoms. Headache, sore throat and achy joints everyone has and then three of the family have rhinitis (runny noses). For once I am the healthiest and fittest person in the house! makes a change to be the healthiest one.

I need to go out and stock up on paracetamol and decongestant lemon drinks. This will take a while because of the law about how many paracetamols and ibrubrofin one person can buy. I am not allowed to buy enough for six people because of the rules, despite the fact that we have 5 members of the family who are needing to take paracetamol. So I will have to go with the next fittest person and go to a number of shops. We did wonder if we went to our local supermarket and use a different checkout each time if we can get away with only visiting one shop. But we have decided not to do that, just in case it causes us a problem.

I have worked out that our local high road has at least 6 shops that sell paracetamols, so if two of us buy the most we are allowed to get in each of these shops we will hopefully have enough to keep us going. It did make me wonder if we could get the GP to issue paracetamol on prescription, as that way we could get enough for each member of the family.  I will now go out and see how many paracetamols I can get from each pharmacy I go to.