We’ve been lucky in making friends with a family in our apartment complex and church who have two daughters and a lot in common with us (like a love of Indian food and Ikea). Oh, and now we’ve shared our strep with them. I’m pretty sure we’ve violated some friend-hospitality-sickness-quarantine rule of etiquette. After all, we were sick and now they are sick.
But, really, the medical community has failed me. Operating on the 3-5 day incubation period and the you’re-not-contagious-after-24-hours-of-antibiotics rule of thumb, I exposed a three-month-old baby to strep. Man, I feel awful.
When we were in Cairo we had giardia and amoebas. We didn’t get very sick, just had to visit the bathroom a million times a day. Other families we knew were near death with giardia. In this case, at least, we didn’t pass giardia along to any of our friends, despite having a big Thanksgiving shindig at our house.
On the one hand, I guess it’s good that we are pretty healthy or pretty not tied to our beds when we’re sick, but on the other hand, it’s probably a bad thing that we feel like socializing when we should probably still be moaning on the couch. Good thing no one gets chicken pox anymore. We’d probably spread it to the entire city.
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So happy to see some new posts. Not sure about your new format though – very pink and girly. Guess you guys do have a lot of girls though.
Did the baby get it or is the baby just exposed?
just FYI, Shannon, 3 month old babies almost never get the bad kind of strep, even when exposed; of course there are lots of other types of germs that can be spread to thme, though.
I enjoy your blog.
Dad
hah!!!–turns out they didn’t have strep, just a cold (that they got from someone else, i might add). i had heard 2nd hand about their illness at the branch Christmas party. whew!! i am so relieved. Spot had strep when she was about 9 months. but we are all almost 100% better. hope everyone else stays healthy!
My kiddo also got strep as a baby (about 8 months). I tell ya, we’re just a family of overachievers!
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