The flyer that was sent home from school today informed me of the following (and I QUOTE):
"The ROTAVIRUS is most commonly transmitted through the fecal/oral route."
Holy shit! (literally)!!!! My children are not in preschool anymore. Diapers are thankfully a thing of my past. Please tell me how second graders are passing fecal matter around?? Disgusting.
And my son wonders why he has to carry hand sanitizer in his backpack.
Other key facts that I learned in this great flyer from our school nurse...
"The ROTOVIRUS has an incubation period of about two days"
ABOUT? What the * does that mean? Is it 2 days or is it a week????
"If your child begins to show signs of watery stool, vomiting, liquid diarrhea or low grade fever please consider keeping them home for at least 24 hours..."
Oh yes, that would be nice, wouldn't it? I mean, at least consider keeping your seven year old home when he or she is crippled with liquid diarrhea. As a personal favor to me. thanks.
Consider???? Really??? How about DO NOT!!!
And we wonder why our kids are still getting this.
"There are only two reasons to sit in the back row on an airplane; either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do." Henry Kissinger
3 comments:
Ha! The Kissinger quote made me laugh out loud. And yeah, could kids be more disgusting? I don't remember being sick constantly as kid, do you? I mean sure, here and there, but it seems like my 5-year-old is always battling a cold or bringing something home from school. It makes me tired just thinking about it.
Heidi, I could not agree more! I don't have girls, but boys are really gross. My sons always want to pull down their pants- and don't get me started on farting...
Oh my god, what is it with boys and farting? I'm talking about my husband now. He loves his three daughters more than life itself, but I think he secretly wishes he had a son too, so he could regale him with the story about Larry Clark farting so loud and long in 5th grade that he started to control said fart like a trumpet. Yeah, sometimes I wish we had a son too, just so I didn't have to hear that story at least twice a year.
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