My husband was sick for over two weeks, we took him to a doctor who totally freaked us out about pneumonia..but we chose to remain calm and he slept for a couple days and finally got better. The lingering cough is JUST going away, and it’s been three weeks for him.
I was sick for two weeks, still recovering. I sort of panicked over the first weekend, when I was sweating out fever after fever and was convinced I’d be one of the statistics of pregnant women with it. But, I went to the doctor, and she said it was too late to even test me (it’d been 4 days of fever by that point) and I had picked up strep throat as well. I went on antibiotics for that, which helped the sore throat pain but it didn’t do anything for the flu symptoms of coughing, chest pain, and overall miserableness.
I mainly stayed home, I ventured out after being on the antibiotics for a couple days, when I felt I was not contagious. My son then developed a fever for a week, I feared it was strep but the doctor said it wasn’t. I kept him in for the entire weekend (and the week prior, while I was sick)
So, we decided to stay in…my husband had to keep working but he did take some time off of work because he would not have gotten better otherwise. I am not a handwashing freak. lol
I did consider going to the hospital, but my fear was the “what if it’s not the flu” then I would be exposing my pregnant self to all sorts of sickness in an ER. I remained thoroughly hydrated, which I felt would be the biggest concern, and watched for any sort of contractions which happen when you become dehydrated. I did think I was going to die though. That seems like a common theme when someone has the flu…it’s just an awful feeling.