Dear fellow kindergarten parent,

[rhu]

Dear fellow kindergarten parent,

If your kindergartener is now on antibiotics for strep, and if you're telling everyone that the baby in the stroller you're pushing around seems to have caught it, along with quite possibly yourself, please don't hang around in the classroom for ten minutes after dropping off your kindergartener, telling the rest of us "oh, you'd better stay away from us, hah hah."

Drop your kid off and leave.

Some of us are hoping to visit our immuno-compromised parents this weekend.

Thanks,
Me.

Comments

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Was said child at your party yesterday? After how long on antibiotics?

On the up side of things, we're all total petri dishes for strep bugs, so your exposure to someone with an active infection really doesn't do much for your dad's chances of getting it from you.

Be nice to post an update on how he's doing, btw.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Was said child at your party yesterday?

No, he was not. Although one other child who was there yesterday (and seemed to be sad about something) turns out to have been home sick from school today; her mother took her in for a precautionary strep test even though her only symptom so far was exhaustion; she (the mother) has promised to let us know the results either way.

[introverte.livejournal.com]

Dad and sick baby were there at pickup again. sigh.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I just emailed you, but I'll post here so that others reading this thread years from now have closure... yes, the child who was here yesterday and had the strep test today did indeed test positive for strep. But at least in this case the parents didn't know until afterwards.

Strep is like yeast...

[jikamens.livejournal.com]

... there's always a lot of it floating around in the air.

Rhu, I know time with your father is precious, and it would be disappointing to have to postpone a trip due to strep. However, the amount of exposure someone gets from being in the same room as someone with strep for a few minutes is really quite minimal. Unless you hugged the baby or shook hands with the dad, I don't think there's much cause for concern with that particular exposure.

Perhaps I'm more laissez faire about things like this than other people, but the way I see it, if you're going to get it, you're going to get it, and nothing is gained from trying to pin the blame on anyone from giving it to you.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Good grief. Some people really shouldn't be granted a child license...

How is your father doing? Sorry I haven't asked lately, been kind of preoccupied. (Not that that's a valid excuse.)