I wasn't feeling so good last week. Neither was Alex. We both had fever. My body feels just ... wrong, and my chest hurt. Alex kept saying her throat hurt and scratching her hands. Neither of us were hungry. Yesterday morning Alex and I went to the walk-in clinic. After we picked up some extra germs in the waiting room for an hour and a half they called Alex's name.
We both have hand, foot and mouth disease. The doctor left us in the room to go get another doctor to give a second opinion. She said it's the wrong season to have this and we can just take something for the fever, but there's no medicine. On the way home Alex told me her feet had been itching too, but she hadn't said anything because she didn't want to get told she had athlete's foot or something else gross.
Know where Danielle was while we were at the doctor? Working! Touching bagels all morning! You know she probably has it too, and now just gave it to several hundred people.
We are not going to our dinner tonight. Josh came over and dropped off soup, a banana pie, and a bunch of magazines.
Late night update - Danielle did my shift at the diner and when she came home she said her hands felt funny, then she went straight to sleep and didn't eat dinner. I guess we're all staying home tomorrow. Aunt Elaine is going to be so excited.
3 comments:
HFMD spreads mostly among kids, and only through contact with the infected person's saliva or mucus, so i wouldn't worry too much that danielle has infected hundreds of bagel shop customers. "grown-up" immune systems usually fend it off easily, unless you are sick already (which, admittedly, a lot of people are at the moment).
sorry to hear you're all grounded for now, and have to deal with aunt elaine grumping about it on top of that all. but please stay out of school until you're rid of it, or you'll really go spreading it.
get better soon!
Hope you're on the mend soon...just keep treating the symptoms.
I'm so sorry you all are sick again. Good job, though, going to the doctor.
What worries me most about you three contracting this particular illness is what it might indicate about your immune systems.
Heal well.
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