The germ bus stops here
Tin picked up another cold and it is back to the aspirator 24/7 and Little Noses and lots of gurgling and kleenex going on. His ear infection is still there and so the doctor switched his antibiotics for another ten days. At least he’s eating and pooping – always the major indicators of health. But speaking of health – it amazes me how parents just cart these germ buses around – I was talking to a friend with three kids about going to the parenting center and I said I don’t want to bring Tin because he has a cold and she said, “They all have colds there.”
Then I went to go pick up the crib and two mothers were standing in the front yard and I said well you might not want to come near because Tin has a cold and they looked me dumbfounded – “Unless he is throwing up, that’s nothing.”
Wow – no wonder these kids are always sick – no quarantine – no nada – just germs to the wind.
January 25th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I felt like that too, but watching my own grandchildren go through cold after cold and infection after infection in their nursery schools I gradually relaxed. Yes they do get sick, but they’re gonna get sick sooner or later with those germs because they’re out there. Now the grandchildren, 7 and 4, are much heartier for having built up some immunity from some of those germs. Tin will too, but it’ll take time. Not suggesting you purposely expose him, but there will be colds and more colds.