Your fears became my reality in October as my 13 yo daughter with ALL started the second month of DI and two weeks later, I contracted the H1N1 influenza  (I'm a health care worker).  The timing was terrible as her ANC had plummeted to 192.  All of us took 5 days of Tamiflu  (myself, son and husband) and they treated my daughter with a 10 day course of Tamiflu.  I remained in isolation (my bedroom for the week and she managed to not contract the flu.  She actually surprized us and went straight to LTM last week with no delay or hospitalization in DI.  (Although she is still very weak, tired  and not in school yet).

We all worry about the what ifs.  My advice is to keep up with the hand cleaning/sanitizers and if someone in the family looks like they are starting to get sick  (ie fever, body aches, bad cough) see your doctor and possibly get started on Tamiflu.  Megan has now had the H1N1 vaccination so I'm hoping we can just worry about all the other germs out there.  Stay positive as there is treatment even if your child gets sick.

Megan's Mom   ( Megan, age 13  HR T cell ALL, dx 2/26/09 just started LTM)

Hi my son was diagnosed with ALL 3 weeks ago and yesterday we found out he has swine flu. He was abit unwell and was only swabbed because I told them my younger son had been in contact with it at nursery (he wasn't showing any symptoms although he had been off it a few days ago) and to my surprise they phoned me back yesterday and told me he has got it, he is ok tho just tired and achy, no worse than he has been for the last 3 weeks due to his treatment. I also asked the doctor if any other children from the ward have had it and he said yes, but they all seemed to have it quite mild.I know I was worried sick about my kids getting swine flu and that was before the ALL diagnosis.