Ok, so DH has tried to calm me down (between laughing hysterically at me...can I wring his neck please?), but I'm all flipped out.
This morning there was a hawk sitting on our fence and DH was like "come out and look at this hawk! I bet we can get close to it if we walk slow!" So we're inching toward the hawk, and it's doing this weird thing opening and closing it's mouth. Then we get about 10 feet away and it starts sneezing.
I'm like "it's sneezing! BIRD FLU!" and run into the house.
Now there has been some extensive googling and crying fits because you CAN get bird flu from an infected bird sneezing in your face. I realize it wasn't exactly in my face because it was 10 feet away, but the wind could totally have blown the saliva/mucus at me and then I could have breathed it in. Right??
Bird flu kills 60% of people infected, and I'd imagine a greater percentage of pregnant women because we are immunocompromised. I have not had a flu shot in about 8 years
Now I feel like I'm just going to have to wait and see if I'm dying for the next 2-7 days (the incubation period).
All I want to do is sit and do some hysterical crying. Have I gone over the edge? Could this flip-out be attributed to the ridiculous amount of estrogen surging through my veins or is this a realistic concern? I've attached an estrogen graph for reference
So, is this funny (as DH seems to think) or would you be worried??
5 years TTC, no luck with IUI's, failed IVF June 2013,
FET Oct 2013 with delayed transfer, intralipids, lovenox & prednisone= first BFP of my life!
Don't worry... I make funny faces before I sneeze too! The poor guy prob just had allergies ;-)
ETA. I from what I read after looking it up, transition seems most likely from droppings. Drinking or swimming in contaminated water gives you the highest risk, so don't drink the bird bath water!
I'm going to vote for going over the edge on this one.... In the kindest possible way of course If it helps, he probably was making warning noises at you, not sneezing, but I wasn't there so I don't know. Also, most birds with the bird flu are water fowl/domesticated birds not predators like hawks. Deep breath!
I remember when the bird flu hit hard, maybe 2004? I was teaching and this student had 89 absences or something ridiculous. When I asked the family why, they told me they thought it was bird flu related since they lived near a chicken farm.
I like that story, and it reminds me that it was mainly chicken related. I think you're safe, and you made me smile.
So true. My last meltdown was over DH's failure to put the correct combination of chemicals in the pool last weekend when we were having a pool party in two days.
There was crying and screaming with that one! And I pretty much never ever raise my voice. Not my finest moment
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FET Oct 2013 with delayed transfer, intralipids, lovenox & prednisone= first BFP of my life!
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You need to research the velocity of hawk sneezes and the speed/direction of the wind in relation to where you were standing.
Seriously, I'm going to giggle about this with my friends for the next few hours.
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You need to research the velocity of hawk sneezes and the speed/direction of the wind in relation to where you were standing.
Seriously, I'm going to giggle about this with my friends for the next few hours.
Actually I HAVE been thinking about the wind! It wasn't too windy, but it was definitely going in a hawk to my nosewardly direction And the hawk sneezed 3 or 4 times, so that's a significant mucosal output!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Hopefully I ran away fast enough that I got out of there before the wind blew it over to me.
Also, I can put you and your friends in touch with my DH, you guys can laugh at me together
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5 years TTC, no luck with IUI's, failed IVF June 2013,
FET Oct 2013 with delayed transfer, intralipids, lovenox & prednisone= first BFP of my life!
FWIW, I don't think the human flu vaccine would protect you from bird flu anyway, right?! Also, to make this morbid, I am pretty sure your chances of dying in a freak car accident are way higher than the chances you can contract bird flu from a hawk that sneezes in your general direction ;-). (That said, I am terrified of going into bodies of water in the south bc I am convinced I will attract a brain eating amoeba... So I would probably panic a bit too ;-))
Your post is hilarious! Definitely over the edge, but funny and it sounds like you already realize you've gone a little crazytown!
FWIW, I don't think the human flu vaccine would protect you from bird flu anyway, right?! Also, to make this morbid, I am pretty sure your chances of dying in a freak car accident are way higher than the chances you can contract bird flu from a hawk that sneezes in your general direction ;-). (That said, I am terrified of going into bodies of water in the south bc I am convinced I will attract a brain eating amoeba... So I would probably panic a bit too ;-))
Your post is hilarious! Definitely over the edge, but funny and it sounds like you already realize you've gone a little crazytown!
My SIL lives in Florida and she won't let her kids go in lakes because of the amoebas. I can understand it there but I suggested they come visit us in Iowa over the summer and we'd go boating, and she was still completely opposed to it. It doesn't get hot enough for long enough here for the amoebas to live!
Also, OP, a sneeze does not equal the flu. Animals sneeze all the time. Light sensitivity, allergies, the common cold....
You need to research the velocity of hawk sneezes and the speed/direction of the wind in relation to where you were standing.
Seriously, I'm going to giggle about this with my friends for the next few hours.
All I can think of is "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
This is pretty funny, but mostly because I could see myself reacting the same way. Many times throughout my pregnancy, Google told me that I'm likely to get very sick or even die. Deep breaths! Almost there
Oh, this just reminds me of how much fun we can have as labor buddies, @PregsMcSnoozalot! I think you are fine but I totally understand irrational emotional outbursts right now! I've had quite a few of my own and when my DH laughs at them it just tends to make me overreact even more!
@TallMomma29 they have had the amoebas in the Colorado River in AZ too, where we boat all the time. I worry so much about my daughter getting one!
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Ahh! I thought it was just a southern thing!! I know it's still very unlikely, I just don't want anything to eat my brain. ;-)
@PregsMcSnoozalot, you wrote this mostly in a joking tone right? (Like you really were worried but you can see the humor in it .... "isn't it funny that I thought I might get bird flu?? But I totally couldn't right? .... Right?!). I mean.. You attached a graph!
...while my husband was laughing at me I would periodically stop crying and start laughing with him, then cry again that he had made me go out to look at the damn bird, then laugh that I ran away yelling "bird flu!", then cry because bird flu is scary, and so on.
I'm feeling much less insane about it today, and have stopped planning my funeral, etc.
Thanks for telling me I was being nuts, ladies, sometimes a girl's gotta hear that!
5 years TTC, no luck with IUI's, failed IVF June 2013,
FET Oct 2013 with delayed transfer, intralipids, lovenox & prednisone= first BFP of my life!
I have a PITA placenta. It was a complete previa that turned into vasa previa, which is even worse than placenta previa, AKA super bad news.
Vasa previa babies are usually delivered at 35 weeks, but it turns out that our baby's exposed vessels are not actually covering the OS as in true vasa previa, but are still close to it, so they are letting him cook an extra week (June 13th is 36 wks), but watching me like a hawk. Cervix is still long and closed (4.5 cm!) and my frequent BH have actually slowed down a LOT since I've been on more restricted bedrest.
I don't know how much you guys want to hear about vasa previa, but basically, if I go into labor or break my water it's a life and death emergency for the baby, so they are obviously wanting to avoid that.
36 weeks is the point at which they declare him safer out than in, so that's when they're doin' it
5 years TTC, no luck with IUI's, failed IVF June 2013,
FET Oct 2013 with delayed transfer, intralipids, lovenox & prednisone= first BFP of my life!
I have a PITA placenta. It was a complete previa that turned into vasa previa, which is even worse than placenta previa, AKA super bad news.
Vasa previa babies are usually delivered at 35 weeks, but it turns out that our baby's exposed vessels are not actually covering the OS as in true vasa previa, but are still close to it, so they are letting him cook an extra week (June 13th is 36 wks), but watching me like a hawk. Cervix is still long and closed (4.5 cm!) and my frequent BH have actually slowed down a LOT since I've been on more restricted bedrest.
I don't know how much you guys want to hear about vasa previa, but basically, if I go into labor or break my water it's a life and death emergency for the baby, so they are obviously wanting to avoid that.
36 weeks is the point at which they declare him safer out than in, so that's when they're doin' it
I came back to check and make sure you're not feeling the sniffles today (har har), but now I'm all worried about you running around in the yard with an emergency waiting to happen! Ack!
I have a PITA placenta. It was a complete previa that turned into vasa previa, which is even worse than placenta previa, AKA super bad news.
Vasa previa babies are usually delivered at 35 weeks, but it turns out that our baby's exposed vessels are not actually covering the OS as in true vasa previa, but are still close to it, so they are letting him cook an extra week (June 13th is 36 wks), but watching me like a hawk. Cervix is still long and closed (4.5 cm!) and my frequent BH have actually slowed down a LOT since I've been on more restricted bedrest.
I don't know how much you guys want to hear about vasa previa, but basically, if I go into labor or break my water it's a life and death emergency for the baby, so they are obviously wanting to avoid that.
36 weeks is the point at which they declare him safer out than in, so that's when they're doin' it
Vasa previa sucks. Did you also say that the placenta is deteriorating too or did I make that up?
Glad your chances of bird flu are slim to none. Good thing you got that flu shot :-/
@BBColt78 Placenta is calcifying, which is a sign of "maturing"/aging. It's just little flecks of calcium at this point, so docs aren't worried about it at all. I'm the one worrying about it, of course
Didn't get the flu shot, which I totally regret now that a bird has sneezed on me, haha......but I did just get the Tdap. Twisted Dh and mom's arms into getting the Tdap, too
5 years TTC, no luck with IUI's, failed IVF June 2013,
FET Oct 2013 with delayed transfer, intralipids, lovenox & prednisone= first BFP of my life!
@BBColt78 Placenta is calcifying, which is a sign of "maturing"/aging. It's just little flecks of calcium at this point, so docs aren't worried about it at all. I'm the one worrying about it, of course
Didn't get the flu shot, which I totally regret now that a bird has sneezed on me, haha......but I did just get the Tdap. Twisted Dh and mom's arms into getting the Tdap, too
Ugh, I need to think about those shots for people coming to stay with us. My MIL and GMIL will each stay with us for a week.
Re: Bird Flu
ETA. I from what I read after looking it up, transition seems most likely from droppings. Drinking or swimming in contaminated water gives you the highest risk, so don't drink the bird bath water!
I like that story, and it reminds me that it was mainly chicken related. I think you're safe, and you made me smile.
I think you'll be okay :-)
Seriously, I'm going to giggle about this with my friends for the next few hours.
You've gone over the edge.
TTC #1 since 10/2012.
BFP#1 11/28/12, MC, BFP #2 CP
BFP #3 10/21/2013, EDD 7/3/2014
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1/20/2014: IT'S A GIRL!
6/30/2014: Happy birthday baby M!
And yeah, it does feel pretty first tri crazy, doesn't it? I was thinking that too.
Also, OP, a sneeze does not equal the flu. Animals sneeze all the time. Light sensitivity, allergies, the common cold....
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Ahh! I thought it was just a southern thing!! I know it's still very unlikely, I just don't want anything to eat my brain. ;-)
@PregsMcSnoozalot, you wrote this mostly in a joking tone right? (Like you really were worried but you can see the humor in it .... "isn't it funny that I thought I might get bird flu?? But I totally couldn't right? .... Right?!). I mean.. You attached a graph!
Glad your chances of bird flu are slim to none. Good thing you got that flu shot
:-/