Me, my eldest son, the neighbours' three kids, and their mother all got swine flu around the end of November. Not too surprising as the kids all play together. We're all pretty healthy active people. Of the six of us, four had relatively mild flu - not nice, but not a big deal. One of the neighbours' kids and I got it a lot worse. The flu itself was very unpleasant, but the bigger issue was the whole series of secondary infections that followed on afterwards. I'm finally getting properly well again now, six weeks later, but I'm still on antibiotics. The neighbour's kid is still advised by his doctor to stay off sports, but he's mostly recovered now too.
Having seen what it can be like for healthy people, and that most of us have no immunity to this version, I'm really happy they did order lots of vaccine. I'd hate to think what it would be like if you did have some health problem. I've got an appointment to get my youngest son vaccinated on Monday. Maybe the risk is over, maybe it's not. Either way, I think it makes sense. If another H1N1 pandemic comes along in a few years time, maybe he'll have a little immunity the way the over-60s seem to have had for this one.