Mower family publicity

Last week we had quite alot of publicity. If you read my earlier post about seeking out the H1N1 vaccine, the story doesn't end there. Last week I heard that they were administering the vaccine at the Davis Conference Center. I was told that they would be getting around 30,000 vaccines. I thought that meant 30,000 for Davis county, but it must have been for the entire state, because they ran out in just a couple of hours. I pulled up to the center at 12:30. Apparently they had ran out sometime just after 12:00. I decided to park and take the kids in anyway to check it out. I was hoping to use Benjamin who's just a little baby as leverage to help me get one of the last ones. As we were walking in I spotted the news crew for channel 2 there. The reporter asked me to tell my story, so I did. I then turned around to take the kids back to the car, and a guy followed me out and offered to give us the last three child vaccines. I was totally shocked. I actually had no idea the the news crew was still shooting. When I watched in on the evening news I was actually surprised at how dramatic it all looked on camera. A Mom with a young baby, and two small kids in tow being turned away for the flu shot, and then just as I'm putting the kids back into the mini van about to drive away in defeat, I get them after all! It's a good thing that we got them to because the swine flu's been going around our ward, this week. The kids so far are holding up well. Let's just keep our fingers crossed. They actually have to have a booster vaccine to get complete immunity, and I still haven't gotten their regular flu shots yet. Our clinic actually ran out of those a few weeks ago. Here is a picture that was published in the Standard Examiner the following day. I thought it turned out really cute. I couldn't believe that out of the thousands of people who showed up we ended up on the news, and in the news paper. It was a pretty fun to watch myself and the kids on the news. Kirk kept saying, "were on T.V."?