Last fall there was an outbreak of the H1N1 virus as we all remember. At the school we were taking great precaution to keep kids healthy and if students had symtoms they were sent strait home. Each classroom was well equipped with Sam's Club sized bottles of Germ X, Clorox Wipes, and tons of Lysol spray. I even had the little hand held size of Germ X hand sanitizer and a mini lysol spray in my playground bag (equipped with rubber gloves, band aids, and all those fun supplies) to make sure I would not get sick. One morning a little girl comes up to me and says "Guess what?!" (as I said when I child comes up and says "Guess What" that's usually not a good sign of what's to come) So I replied with the usual "I don't know, What?!" She then smiles, gives me a big bear hug, and says "I was sick last night..." "That's not good" I said. "Did you throw up?!" (since that was the bug that was going around) "Yup!" She said with a huge toothy grin, and then went on to say "I just threw up too" while she pointed to a spot around the corner where 4-5 little boys were standing staring at something in the dirt. So I got on the walky-talky with the nurse and janitor and had that situation cleaned up.
A couple of days passed and I began to feel horrible with flu like symptoms. So I go to the doctor and I have the flu (they thought H1N1 but never tested me because by the time the test gets back you're already over the hump of it) and they take full precaution and send me home with a face mask until my fever passes. While I am at home, sick. I am on facebook talking to one of the other kindergarten supervisors and she goes on to tell me that the same little girl who gave me a big bear hug after she threw up tested positive for H1N1... So much for taking precaution and not getting sick. The moral of this story, get your flu shot early on.
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