Where are people's brains?
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Every Friday night we have dinner with our extended family. Hubby comes from a large family, so there are usually between 15 and 20 people there. I come from a very small family, so this was quite an adjustment at first. But, I've grown to like it.I'm normally not a germaphob. But, now that I'm on immunosuppressant drugs, I'm more cautious about being around sick people because - shockingly I always get whatever they have. I'm darn tired of being sick on top of all my ulcerative colitis stuff. It's especially hard with an 11-month old to keep up with.
I've purposely kept my health problems from Hubby's family because this kind of thing tends to become the family joke and dinner table conversation. This is very personal and embarrassing to me, so I didn't want them to know about it. But, after this hospital incident, we finally felt like we couldn't keep it from them any longer. So, we've been telling people as they ask. They pretty much know what's going on and that I'm on immunosuppresant drugs and can get sick easily.
You would think they would avoid me if they were sick right? Nope. Last night, we show up for dinner to find that 10 of them were sick with either this nasty stomach flu or a cold. And I don't mean recovering from it - I mean actually sick and contagious. I wanted to turn around and walk out the door but of course I couldn't. Did they at least avoid me? Nope, Lilly and I got lots of hugs and kisses from everyone. I just don't get it. Obviously they don't get it.
So, now I'm going to call each family and tell them to please let me know if they are sick so I can choose weather or not I want to go to dinner. I hate to do that.
posted by Avorie @ 7:32 AM,
1 Comments:
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At 8:58 AM,
Amanda and Tim said...
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What a bummer - sorry to hear about this!
