My wife, myself, live-in grown up son, spinster sister, daughter, her husband, their two kids 6 and 4.
A three-bedroom house.
Kids had fevers coming down here.
Sister arrived with a cold and did nothing isolate herself or use good hygiene.
I was recovering from 2 weeks of a cold with secondary bacterial infection. Two healthy days and I caught my sister's cold. Daughter says all of them have it.
Somehow my wife and our son seem to have escaped.
I try isolating myself, but we gave up our bedroom for daughter's family; so my wife and I are in a little study. If I lie in bed at night I cough all night. The only good solution is sitting up in a recliner; there's no room for that in the study.

I think I'm selling the house; either that or rent it out. Not going through this again. No way.

Oh didn't even mention: son-in-law's father has terminal cancer, in hospice. So he hasn't been able to see his granddaughters to hold them for probably the last time.

Fuck.

When I’m sick, I isolate myself from work, friends, the parish, name it. I’ll never understand why everyone else can’t do this. When I used to go to theater/cineplex people would be in there, in the winter, hacking up, sniffing their snot up. I would sit there and think you fucking asshole, GTFO. Just go see the movie when you well. Is it the end of the world if you have to stay home for Christmas because people are sick? No.

Feel for you. Get well.

Holidays or not, people who come down with respiratory infections but choose to be in close contact with others are very irresponsible, as far as I'm concerned.

My Father in law did the same at thanksgiving. We drove five hours to Houston and guess what? He’s sick! Anyone think to let us know??!

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Originally posted by 12131:
Holidays or not, people who come down with respiratory infections but choose to be in close contact with others are very irresponsible, as far as I'm concerned.

Mrs.BurtonRW, RN, deals with this constantly. And not from patients. Nurses are apparently the worst offenders when it comes to being sick and coming to work without a second thought about coughing in their co-workers’ faces all day long.

It pisses her off since what might be an annoying URI for them can easily become something worse for her as she is somewhat susceptible to respiratory infections.

Be responsible, people!

-Rob

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:
Nurses are apparently the worst offenders when it comes to being sick and coming to work without a second thought about coughing in their co-workers’ faces all day long

But if they use PTO when they're SICK, they won't have any left for FUN stuff. Their co-workers and patients will understand.

I don’t remember what holiday it was, but our kids were maybe 2, 4, and 6. We stayed at my wife’s sister’s house and had one bedroom. Nobody mentioned that the sister’s family of five and the grandparents all had a stomach bug prior to our arrival. We wound up spending an extra three days and it wasn’t pretty.

Seems a little bit of respect sure could have went a long way.

I'm on the other side of the token. I don't get sick. Haven't been sick in 22+ years and don't even remember what it would be like.

Some of my friends were blessed with sons and daughters this year. I advised them that I wouldn't know if I was carrying anything that may effect their young one's developing immune system. We agreed on six months or so. I can't wait to see them.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Holidays or not, people who come down with respiratory infections but choose to be in close contact with others are very irresponsible, as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah. If you're sick, stay away from people. I hated people at work who did that. We were always free to work from home as needed even before Covid.

My wife is a RN and her employer has a “point” system that adds points every time an employee calls in sick. One point if it’s a certain day of the week or two points if in conjunction with a scheduled off day.

They’re allowed 12 before being subject to termination.

A bout of flu that takes multiple days to recover you’re docked a point per day. Kid sick? Docked points.

Spouse dies unexpectedly? Docked a point for the day you called in.

Guess who can’t hire nurses, techs, etc? Guess which organization’s staff habitually come to work on death’s door infecting everyone else?

Our family flew to see my mom for Christmas 2 years ago. The first full day I took the family on a tour of my old haunts. We get back to my mom's that evening and are greeted with the news her and my stepdad tested positive for COVID. They are both vaccinated, my family of 5 is not. We stayed a week with them and none of us got sick. I feel for you people suck, we get customers in the store hacking up lungs, snotting on our cabinets, wiping their noses and then touching stuff. Humans are disgusting creatures.

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My wife is a RN and her employer has a “point” system that adds points every time an employee calls in sick. One point if it’s a certain day of the week or two points if in conjunction with a scheduled off day.

Like points on your driver's license for infractions? Without taking actual need and circumstances into account? How badly does she need that job?

^ This is apparently not viewed as common? Every job I've had has been this way, including my current employer. It's broken down a little more than the system described, but any absence not approved in advance will get you a point. In my case, I've been sick since the 27th, but on vacation. I am forced to go back tonight or be docked my pay for the holiday for calling off. Can't use a vacation day either, and we aren't given pto/sick time. I'm past the point of being contagious, but that isn't going to make me any less miserable for an 8 hour shift on my feet in slightly above freezing temperatures, breathing through my mouth.

Its been a few years, but my mom came down to visit us in south Florida. Was quite happy since we'd not seen her in years, of course that was before we found out she was carrying a stomach bug and she knew it before traveling.

Our kids were 3, 4, 6, and 10. Oldest son succumbed first to non-stop vomiting (4 year old), got him to urgent care and they gave him injection to stop the vomiting.

In rapid succession we had the 10-year old down - urgent care said she's too sick get her to E.R. Wife got back in time to shuttle the 6-year old to urgent care. They were closing and she was taken to E.R. in an ambulance.

It was me at home with our two youngest, the 4-year old was still resting peacefully. Then the 3-year old started vomiting. So he & I joined the wife & 6-year old in pediatric emergency, 10-year old was in her own room at E.R. already. I.V. in place, poor kids were miserable, wife & I in place with them in separate rooms.

About 2 in the morning, I had the worst diarrhea I'd ever experienced and laid on the floor of the bathroom for a half-hour desperately willing myself not to start vomiting cause I knew I'd have to go for my own care treatment if I did.

I heard my wife asking the nurse where I was "Oh, honey he's in the bathroom getting sick I think" That galvanized me to get back in the room with our youngest.

Around 4 a.m. our oldest (10) was ready to go home. I grabbed her, the wife stayed at the hospital with the other two, still in pediatric E.R.

10-year old had an accident with diarrhea in the parking garage, was able to her cleaned up and clothed in my shirt for cover while we drove home.

Kinda tempered my happiness with mom coming down to visit for a bit.

Amen.
I'm taking care of my mother in home hospice.
My brother and kids + a girlfriend were coming over for Christmas dinner.
The girlfriend was not feeling well so the nephew was coming w/o her.
Um, No. You tell me what she has before you come over here and kill your Grandma w/ whatever has spread to you.
Grandma doesn't need that and you don't need to know you took part in her passing.
If you think this might be the last time you get see Grandma, then you should have been visiting the past 3 months.

It worked out but I'm taking care of their Grandma 24/7 while making the Christmas dinner by myself. I don't need to police what should be obvious.

My easy an antidote, ‘I have to work’. Yeah, don’t need to tell them that I put in to work Christmas and New Years.