ugh….house full of sick people

Thank you for your understanding! I hate feeling like the crazy person. I did get my lysol and have bleach on hand. It may mean extra dishes for myself because I don’t want the others doing kitchen work, and i lysol everything they get near. The one girl is okay now, the oldest seems to have strep. O…M….gosh that scares me. I have my own daughter sleeping in the same room and am thinking of moving her into my office until the air is clear. I have her drinking probiotics and taking vitamins and washing her hands often. I did explain in depth the reason I am so serious and what getting ill could mean for me. I was pretty graphic and ‘worst case scenario’ but made sure the mom understood that when I got sick initially it was due to a simple day at the beach with my kids…not knowing that beach had just been re-opened after being contaminated. Just because the levels of bacteria are at a “safe” level, doesn’t mean they won’t make someone ill. In my case, a cut toe on a submerged rock in shallow water changed my life. If something that ‘simple’ can do that much damage, I told her to think what direct contact with a ‘Just a virus’ could do to me. She had been relieved when the doctor told her it was “just a virus” the kids had. Ugh. Again thank you for understanding and making me feel less insane.

Chirpy….our immune systems can over react to anything we get. Since there are known triggers to GBS and relapses, we try to avoid getting sick with those particular illnesses. But, I have read that even having dental work done can be a trigger. You eventually stop being overly fearful because you can control your own surroundings, but in this case I can’t control the other people and what they do outside my house. Seems that something is going around here in town because a LOT of teens are complaining of being sick with the same thing. Not sure about the lower grades because my daughter is home schooled and the other girl who lives with us has not said anything about her school mates being sick. I try to keep my own immune system healthy, but not over do it because I am not sure what having an overly effective immune system might do. Some of us get sicker easier, or at the very least when we do get sick it lasts a lot longer than it did before we got GBS. Others rarely get sick (maybe because we take precautions? or are just lucky or our systems are on high alert).

Hi istaroaz

I totally agree! Not mean at all from my stand point. And they got the message when I started carrying around the lysol and spraying everything if they so much as peeked out of their room. Fortunately we didn’t get it! I was very excited and let out a sigh of relief. Now that we are all on the same page I hope they will remember and be much more sensitive and understanding next time.

Thank you all for the support!