My luck is holding!

[kyburg]

The cultures came back negative for strep.

...

Yeah, I know. I wasn't being cultured for that. There's a call in to the doctor for the WTF.

If they botched the test, I'm getting my H1N1 shot and making sure the family does too - and lie my ass off.

I've taken four days off work. If this wasn't H1N1, I'm dead meat.

Comments

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Oy. That sucks.

[dedoc.livejournal.com]

OK... the good news, if your job argues, is that the CDC no longer trusts the rapid swabs and outpatient tests to differentiate H1N1 from 'regular' Influenza A and B.

Bottom line: CDC guidelines would strongly argue that if you've had a influenza-like prodrome, you can reasonably be assumed to have had influenza -- and this year, that's overwhelmingly H1N1.

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

What they said....and whatever it was, you don't want to share with your coworkers!

[turandot.livejournal.com]

Look, it's not like you intentionally lied and said it was H1N1. If it looked like H1N1, and you were told to stay home by the advice of doctor, as was your husband, the only way to find out that it wasn't is through testing, and it takes time for that testing to come back. Surely your employers might understand that your doctor's orders were to be obeyed until you knew for sure that you would not bring H1N1 down on your entire company.

It's not uncommon for doctors to test for strep in addition to other things when there is extreme respiratory distress and you either (a) have a child or (b)work with kids. I had strep throat myself a couple of years back (wouldn't have known without testing for it), and it was nasty and vile and wouldn't go away. So it would be something your docs would want to test for in addition to H1N1.

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

Doctor's note is good enough for those of us who work in the hospital!

[sekl.livejournal.com]

Works for us in software too. Doctor's note for anything considered contagious goes over very well.