Last Saturday, our friends invited us over for awhile. We hadn't seen them in almost 2 months so we thought it would be good to go over there and catch up on what has been going on in our lives. After about 2 hours, my friend T says "I've been feeling like I'm coming down with something". I didn't really think about it until Monday when my throat started bugging me. It became all scratchy and dry. Every hour that went by, it got worse. By late afternoon, I knew I was "Coming down with something". My OH and I went to go get some topsoil. There were some uneven area's in the new pasture that we needed to fill in. You know me, safety first! I don't want Chance to run around, trip on an uneven area, and hurt herself. I know how silly babies can be. By the time we got all the topsoil out of the truck, I told my OH I needed to go inside. I was really starting to feel like crap. Yep, I was sick. After the worst sore throat I probably have ever had, I woke up the next day with a 500 lb head and chest congestion. I was miserable! I had the worst headache imaginable, without it being a migraine, and every muscle ached in my body like you wouldn't believe. The cough is really bad right now. Guess what? I have been staying home, so I don't infect anyone else. Plus I feel like such crap, I don't even want to go anywhere. So this is why I have not been around. No posts, no visiting, no nothing. I feel like crap. All I want to do is sleep, sleep and sleep.
So my question to you all is this. If you feel like you are "coming down with something", do you still invite friends over? I am actually quite irritated at my friends, and I don't get irritated like this very often. I am irritated because if I would have known she wasn't feeling well, I would have stayed home. Apparently someone else that was there, was sick too, which I didn't know about until the other day. I am irritated because if you are "coming down with something" and you don't know with what, whether it could be the swine flu or a nasty cold, then obviously you will infect others. What if it was the swine flu? I don't have medical insurance, so if I had to make a trip to the hospital, I would be in big trouble. I know how expensive medical bills are, with having had 2 surgeries, and an emergency room visit with Pneumonia.
When I worked, I worked with the public, so I was around all kinds of people all day long. It was amazing how many people would go out being sick, and how many mom's took their sick kids out. I know that if I was a mom, and I had a sick kid, that kid would be staying home until they felt better, not just for everyone else, but for the child. So this is my frustration of the week, sick people knowing they are sick, and still exposing themselves to others. I feel better now that I got that off my chest............
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You have every right to be angry that is for sure! I too would be livid! Especially now with such a huge threat with the swine flu. I hope you feel better soon.
Sucks that you're sick....hope you feel better soon.
I agree you have every right to be annoyed .There are simple rules of conduct that we need to follow to prevent the spread of these bugs ,and inviting people over is nice , but I have called to cancel when I am ill and missed some special evenings over the years rather than share the bug!
This is my pet peeve also. There are people who come to work on their death bed and who want praise for how dedicated they are. Then the whole department ends up sick. Do people really believe the company will fold if they don't show up? And I also have had people come to family get togethers and spread their germs throughout the house.
I hope you feel better soon!
We agree and you have every right to be upset. It isn't right to expose everyone else to something if one even thinks they may be getting sick. Better to be safe and not make others sick. Hope you feel better soon.
Ernie & Sasha
I am so on your side. With my classroom (and I am sure that Pony Girl is the same) nothing bugs me more than sick kids coming to class. Or the ones that stay home sick and play outside all day - then wonder why they are sick again a week later. if my kids are too sick to go to school, they are too sick to come out of their rooms. they may have a few select toys, and read as many books as they want. NO playing outside, or with the other kids, or in the rest of the house where they can contaminate everyone else!!
If you are congested and your can't breathe because of a stuffy nose theres this little invention called a netti pot. Seriously, best sinus thing EVER. Saved me last winter when I had the worst sinus infection of my life.
I tell you, reading that was like reading the last week of my life! Girl, I hear you, it was the exact same thing here. I don't know where I got it, but it kicked my ass. It's STILL kicking my ass. I've been to Urgent Care for antibiotics (Z pack) and that helped. But it was still a NASTY flu bug. Turned into pneumonia for my daughter, quickly fixed by antibiotics.
I did stay home with her, except for one job I had to do, and the people claimed to have had flu shots. I didn't get too close to them though.
I feel for you girl. Hope you feel better super quick!
I rarely get sick (not a martyr who comes in coughing, but after 30 years working with kids it seems that bugs don't bother with me much anymore) but TONIGHT I'm home with what I hope is food poisoning. Came on suddenly, I went to work hoping that it would pass, after an hour I called the boss and told her that I couldn't stay. Didn't even make it home. Urgh.
I really don't think it's contagious (as I say, viruses don't usually touch me, but nobody is immune to food poisoning) but if I'd known it was going to keep going south, I would never have gone in! Sometimes you just can't tell.... I'd give your friend the benefit of the doubt.
I just heard from your mom you weren't feeling well. I would be irritated with my friends too although sometimes for me it's hard to decipher between a cold and allergies. It sounds like you have the flu though. I am so hoping we don't get it here, it would be a big mess. I hope you feel better soon sweetie!
I agree that with the threat of something serious like swine flu people need to think a bit more.
However as long as common sense and good hygiene are practiced I see nothing wrong with people with colds being out and about. I work with the public and make sure to wash my hands frequently (or use those hand sanitizer gels). I had a nasty cold last week but still came to work. Part of the curse of working in a small family business. I used the hand gel even more often and coughed into my sleeve (by my elbow) rather than my hands.
The people that irritate me are the ones that cough/sneeze openly without trying to cover it, or into their hands and then hand you something.
Well, That was not playing nice at all of your friends!!
I worked in the school dist. for 23 years. And taught this to bus drivers/and Sp. needs attendants, I'm almost annal about germs and preventing the spread of...But,what irritates me most is the "IMPROPER use of gloves!" I watched servers at a nice dinner show we were at tonight (in Branson) clear tables, serve plates of food and yet... pour fresh ice water etc. with the same "gloved" hands as tho this was preventing germs? Where's the training? Ok, off the soapbox. Paint Girl, I hope you feel better soon...REAL SOON!
The swine flu is just the flu, I mean, it's another strain, so you are just as susceptible to the regular flu, too. I do think if someone thinks they are getting sick, they shouldn't have people over. I stay home a day when I first get sick (or if I have a fever) so that I can get better, and not infect others. It kinda drives me crazy when people work sick (esp. teachers in a school like where I work) because it does just keep the germ cycle going!
I feel like I am fighting something again...might just be allergies. No sore throat this time, just a messed up nose. Hope you are on the mend soon! :) ((((hugs)))
You know Paint Girl, this is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves!!! I absolutely cannot stand people who go into public while they are sick... And inviting you over while not feeling well OMGosh!! It's wrong by all means... Now the regular old cold doesn't bother me but flu's and stomach bugs is a big NO-NO because the risk of spreading is to high!! DD went to school last week and started having severe stomach pains and so she went to the nurse they checked her temp and she had no fever but within an hour she was sent back up and when they checked her temp it was 104.0 so obviously I picked her up then called the school later that day and reminded them that she wouldn't be there as she was still running a fever and the Principal says "make sure she stays home for 24 hrs after her fever is gone without meds"...I'm like DUH!! I always follow that rule, but there are kids that get sent home with a stomach bug one day and are back the next well HELLO its not been 24hrs for them so send them home!!! OH see I just get all worked up LOL!!
I hope you feel better soon!
Fell better PG!!
As a Mom, I can say that I am one of those MOms that keeps the kids HOME when anyone is sick. No sense in infecting others, and no sense at all in them catching something else when they are compromised.
Hang in there and know we'll be thinking of you!
That is so wrong! It's not like it couldn't be rescheduled. I hope you are feeling better soon!!
Sorry you ended up with such a stinker of a virus. Some of the viruses we have around today are way worse than the sniffles of yester-years and they can severely inconvenience people. I keep my kids home if they have coughs, sneezes or fevers, and I stay home with the same. I was sick last Friday, and on Monday I had several coworkers call to ask how I am feeling. I knew they were worried about me coming into the office on Tuesday with an illness. I assured them that I am fine. Ironically, when I got into the office, I found that everyone around me was sneezing while I was quiet. Of course, several people called in sick the next day, and I'm sure they were blaming me, even though I was long over my illness by the time I returned to the office. Where do they think I picked it up from in the first place? Someone in the office. After all, that's pretty much the only place I ever go and no one at home has been sick. I think the worst place to pick up illnesses is in doctor's offices, and the next worst place is shopping malls with all those people touching everything. One time I looked over and saw this little girl wiping her nose on a sweater that was hanging on a rack while her mother obliviously shopped for clothes. I swear that sweater had a snot smear that ran from collar to waist! What kind of mother doesn't even notice that her child is sick, drags her out on a shopping spree with her, and then doesn't even offer her tissues?
Sounds to me like you have bronchitis -- I just got over that. I get it frequently, sometimes up to 4 times a year....Without health insurance it is scary to get sick....I feel for you. Hope you get better soon.
I have been diligent and harping on DH to avoid anyone coughing or sniffling. Not to be rude but I just LET 'EM KNOW I'M AVOIDING ILLNESS, NOT THEM.
Take care and remember lots of fluids, fruit and spicy soup, spices are fabulous for immunity.
I'm with you...your friends should have at least given you a heads up and let you decide if you still wanted to hang out. Hope you feel better soon.
I always appreciate when someone warns me when they are coming down with something or are coming "out of something", asking if I still want to come. And I try to do the same.
Hope you are feeling better soon!
I wouldn't invite people over if I was coming down with something...not such a big deal if you are getting over an illness. But, people are strange...
Oh no! Hope you are feeling better soon! I do get annoyed by people wanting to get together and then going "Oh, by the way, I'm getting sick. Take your vitamins and hope you don't get it!" I can usually manage to not catch it, but it still makes me paranoid for a while. I work in a small office and will usually come in if I think I can live through the day at my desk. I am extra careful though and warn people to stay away from me and use Lysol like it's going out of style.
Hope you're feeling better soon!
i pray you are feeling better! i hope we don't get it in our family...did you get some tamiflu? supposedly it helps lesson the effect~
Hope you are feeling better soon!!!
As I logged into your blog your nav bar is gone too and it says the same thing as mine! From your end is the nav bar still at the top? There are a lot of others I have seen that say the same thing.
Jane
I agree with you on this one. I especially don't appreciate it when someone who knows they are sick will still shake you hand! On more than one occasion, I suffered horrible sickness because of this. If I am under the weather, I try my darnedest to keep from 'spreading the wealth' so to speak.
Okay, now that was weird...my word verification was 'shysperm'
Paint Girl, I am here from Internet Explorer and everything looks fine. Has to be something between Firefox and blogger, drat!!!! Hope they can fix it soon. Someone else said they had problems with Internet Explorer, what next!?
In today's world that is a very stupid, dangerous thing to do. If it was my friend I would tell her how I felt about it and ask her in the future to please not expose me to her germs when she is not felling well. So sorry you are sick!
I am so careful to keep Maizie home from school the second she has anything, but...UGH...it doesn't seem like any other parents care. Kids are always going to her school with the worst stuff. It is a germ factory. She and I got a cough last May that I swear I still have. I sound like a smoker and I have never smoked. I am a runner, and I have to to stop every so often to cough!
Hope you feel better. (It is nice to be cyber friends with you - then I can't get your cold/flu!) Again, feel better!
I am so sorry you are not feeling well. Some people just don't care at all. They may not feel bad enough to stay home and they want to go out and have a good time. Little do they know they are spreading the germs. It depends with my kids if I will keep them home or not. If it's just a simple runny nose, they go to school, but if they have flu like symptoms they stay home. They don't like to stay home either, it's not fun laying in bed and doing nothing. I hope you feel better soon!
lol! I'm glad you feel better after getting that off your chest. :)
I am right there with ya about sick people not tryig to protect others from getting what they've got. How rude!
This is just another (of many) reasons why our family chooses to homeschool our kidlets. When my twinlings were in school, whenever they got sick, I would keep them home until all their symptoms were gone, even if that meant missing quite a few days of school. Runny noses and coughs means germs are being spread via surfaces and airborne and I would never want my kidlets to get other kids sick.
Well obviously other parents don't follow the same protocol, which is why every year my kids were sick at least once a month. And then they'd bring that nastiness home to the rest of our family and we'd all be deathly ill (we always got it worse than the kids) for a week or more.
And then if parents are sick and can't afford to saty home for very long, then they track those germs to their job...and there goes a vicious cycle.
We literally got sick of being sick all the time!
We've been homeschooling about 6 years now and our entire family has been sick less than 3 times in all those years. And the sicknesses we have had have only been a slight sore throat and some runny noses that only last 1-3 days.
And as you know, we are always out and about traveling, going on field trips, visiting with other kids, but my kidlets don't sit in small, non-ventilated classroom, in close proximity with 20-30 kids for 6-8 hours every day. It does make a huge difference.
One of my good friends has been a flight attendant for over 20 years and until the aircraft design was changed to provide for better filtration and ventilation, and the aircraft were thoroughly cleaned more often, she was always getting sick, too. You sit in a plane for 2-4 hours with a bunch of sneezing, hacing sick people and you can't help but get sick, too. gah!
Feel better soon!
By the way, doesn't a headache mean flu?
~Lisa
When I worked I got SOOOO irritated at the guy I shared a tiny office with because he would come to work NO MATTER WHAT. And he ALWAYS got the nastiest colds and then I ended up with them and guess what? I stayed HOME! The worst time was when I was pregnant though, I got soo mad and ended up getting sick. And since I was pregnant I was not ABOUT to take any meds, so I stayed home for a while. Then when Jimmy got sick this week, I was a little upset because I am pretty sure it was from someone that came to playgroup last week with a cold. Jimmy and 3 other kids got sick (that I know of!) NOT cool! I am just glad he is seeming to be better now. I hope you feel 100% soon!
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