Glad to hear it is not COVID-19! Lesson to us all, not a good time to share any health concerns with other than a healthcare professional or family, lest someone go off half cocked.
Sad stories about traveling nurses being kicked out of leases because landlords are afraid of contagion. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:55 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > This hit really close to home: > > Youngest boy comes home from work last night, looking a bit peaked and > feeling poorly, said he had a fever. Hmm. Not good. Checks his temperature, > sure enough, he’s got a mild fever. Says his gut has been a mess as the day > went on, with his lower GI going berserk. > > Mom was kind enough to bring something like this into the house recently, > which I’ve been dealing with as well. No fever, but definitely tearing up > the lower GI. Nothing, I mean nothing, has affected the symptoms. Yogurt, > cheese, anything that would normally slow or stop things up has absolutely > no effect. > > So anyway, once we hear the symptoms we breathe a sigh of relief and send > him off to his room. > > About an hour later, he comes out to me at the computer and he’s all > worked up. Seems that he shared his concerns about his symptoms/health with > a coworker that day. The coworker, a poorly educated rural Bubba type, goes > home and tells his equally clueless wife. She has a major meltdown and > calls a County commissioner, at home, and rants about the employees > spreading CV19 all over the place and the County doing nothing to prevent > it. > > So now youngest son is like the chicken that got caught in the tractor’s > nuts, to quote Slim Pickens. > > I tell him to not worry, he’s not going to lose his job, and that with > everyone on edge this is just one of what will probably be many meltdowns > that will occur over the next few weeks. Hardly calming, but at this point > there’s not a lot he can do. He was planning on going to the doctor this > morning to get checked out anyway. > > So he goes to the doctor this morning. Stomach bug, doc tells him. No > cure, it has to run it’s course. He gets a “get out of jail free” statement > from the doc and sends it to his supervisor so he can return to work > tomorrow. > > Crisis averted. Oy. > > -D > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
