kids
i really am starting to fear them.
they have germs.
posted by CamoBunny at 00:06
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Monday, March 27, 2006
when we were young, a woman esteemed as wise told us that men were the hunters, and women were the bunnies. some believed her, and hopped away to roll over at the feet of the first hunters they heard tromping by. the rest of us? we can talk here.
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Yesterday we had lunch with some friends. Their kids (6 and 7-ish) had been home sick from school all week. They had something called Roodvonk (translated: red spark, possibly the same as scarlet fever?) which is apparently a normal children's sickness although I had never heard of it where you get red spots on your chest, sore tongue and throat etc. Apparently you are supposed to have had it as a child and if you get it a second time it's milder. Anyway their son coughed right in the direction of the date-walnut tart which we later consumed. I don't think anyone else noticed it. There was nothing I could do about it after the fact. I was only hoping that the intervening 1-2 hours would give the germies some chance to die / dissipate (although no doubt they were feasting in the lovely buttery crust). Will I get the Roodvonk? Have I had it already as a child? Is that a slight pain I feel in my throat?
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. I fear them too.
To say nothing of their slobber, snot and felt-tipped markers.
3/27/2006 04:58:00 AM
my personal opinion (take it for what it's worth, for i don't want to be sued for "practicing" medicine on the internet so if any internet policedogs are sniffing around here that's not what i'm doing!).
roodvonk is strep throat with a rash (=scarlatina or scarlet fever). the germies can indeed be carried in respiratory droplets. if the children have been treated with an antibiotic and did not have fevers x 24 hrs before visiting you, you should be fine. if you start getting a sore throat, you should get tested for strep. if you have strep, you should be treated.
i don't know if i've mentioned this before but i am most adamantly anti-secretion. i used to say anti-slobber but seeing as it is the germy, slimy, tenacious proprerties of the stuff that i cannot stand, i believe snot falls into that category. i put on gloves just to examine kids from whom snot or slobber is exuding at the time.
i have been called a germophobe. to that i say
1) i think it's only common sense not to want to be debilitated by these infectious diseases and
2) germs or not, secretions are just plain gross
3/27/2006 07:39:00 AM
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