Swine Flu or just plan old Flu?

Apart from Deacon's bog standard run of the mill flu earlier this winter, I thought that we had escaped swine flu in the Davis Household; however Ben seems to have been struck with the most hideous flu known to man. He has a temperature, glands the size of golf balls, no appetite (even said no to curry!) and sounds like he has landed from the planet snot. Had this occurred round about July/August time when the press was at its swine flu scaremongering worst...You know who you are (Daily Mail...).. I think that I would have ran out onto the streets screaming 'unclean' before reaching for the red paint! However, now it is here I can only continue to dose him up on Calpol and give him a huge amount of mum tlc. I did get a prescription for Tamiflu and have started him on the course (and no, his head has not fallen off), although to be honest I have no idea whether it is or it isn't, all I can hope for is that he feels better soon. xxx