Fighting the flu
Who will get the H1N1 vaccine first?
Before the month is out, it's likely you will be hard-pressed to turn around without bumping into a dose of the H1N1 flu vaccine.
For the moment, though, it's in pretty short supply -- both the injectable form and the less-scary syringes of nasal mist.
Much of the 2 million doses' worth shipped out this week is being snapped up by hospitals and given to their employees. This makes sense, since they'll need to be healthy when all those sick people start pouring through the emergency-room doors.
"Don't encourage people to show up at the ER looking for an H1N1 shot," said Keith Hartenberger, spokesman for Edward Hospital in Naperville.
If you're wondering when it'll be your turn, hospital officials suggest you try calling your doctor's office.
As for the shots that protect against the usual round of ailments known as seasonal flu, go right ahead if you like. Although the Will County Health Department has burned through nearly all of its adult-dose seasonal flu shots already (they're expecting more to come in Wednesday), we haven't heard of a run on the yearly vaccine at the drug stores, medical practices and other sites that have been administering them for the past few weeks.
So far.
During a question-and-answer session with students at Neuqua Valley High School Wednesday afternoon, Secretary of State Jesse White paused during his comments to tease a student.
"Young man, are you sleeping?" White asked before joking. "Don't you fall asleep on me. I'll take your license from you."
Egizio will be demonstrating her craft on HGTV's "That's Clever" at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
"Some artists want to make a statement -- I like to be amused," Egizio says on her Web site, www.thebeatofmyart.com . "I make art that I want to look at for a long time, that makes me smile when I see it and think, 'Hey, who did that? Oh yeah, it was me.'"
Ladley, who grew up here and owns Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, aims to preserve the city's ghostly oral tradition.
According to the publisher's Web site, "Some eerie legends in these pages have origins that are lost in time and still other hair-raising ghost stories included in this work are chilling, contemporary, firsthand accounts of paranormal encounters within Naperville's sprawling boundaries."
"Haunted Naperville" goes on sale Monday.
