A pox on you!
Those of you who go to my missus's blog will know that she has been diagnosed with chickenpox this week. We are proper gutted. She especially, obviously, because she's always tried to be über-careful, not socializing with any friends whose kids have not had it and that sort of thing.
We are doubly gutted because this coincides with my birthday weekend, and we are supposed to be going away to see my family, including our new three-month-old nephew. But now she won't be able to see the nephew cos he's too young to be exposed to the chickenpox virus.
And we are also wondering whether we ought to come clean with the B&Bs and/or restaurants that we have booked for the weekend. If I ran a B&B, I probably would not want someone staying if they had chickenpox...
That said, if we had gone last weekend, she would have been at least as contagious but nobody would have even known about it.
So, moral dilemma: should we come clean and risk being asked not to come? Or should we just go anyway and risk infecting anyone who comes near, just so we don't have to change our plans?
We are doubly gutted because this coincides with my birthday weekend, and we are supposed to be going away to see my family, including our new three-month-old nephew. But now she won't be able to see the nephew cos he's too young to be exposed to the chickenpox virus.
And we are also wondering whether we ought to come clean with the B&Bs and/or restaurants that we have booked for the weekend. If I ran a B&B, I probably would not want someone staying if they had chickenpox...
That said, if we had gone last weekend, she would have been at least as contagious but nobody would have even known about it.
So, moral dilemma: should we come clean and risk being asked not to come? Or should we just go anyway and risk infecting anyone who comes near, just so we don't have to change our plans?
Labels: decisions decisions decisions, family, illness
permalink posted by * (asterisk) at 9:21 AM
9 Comments:
Personally, I'd always be honest about it because Chicken Pox can become shingles, which is really nasty, and you don't know how many elderly/vulnerable people you might come into contact with. Infecting someone unknowingly is one thing, knowingly is quite another - I wouldn't want the karma myself.
Good luck with the decision - it's tough. And I hope your birthday weekend is still jolly.
Puss
Yeah, best to come clean and postpone your getaway if necessary. Is she still contagious though?
It would really be the virus' fault. I had chicken pox my senior year of high school. I didn't like it.
"If I ran a B&B, I probably would not want someone staying if they had chickenpox..."
Hm hm, you said it. Either come clean or don't go...
the zombie loving side of me says...risk infection.
Ha...proper gutted. I am going to use that now.
I have stolen "sick to the back teeth" from you wife already this week.
Well when I....er.....
....um...soz...wrong pox...
haha, i had the exact same thought as sheamus
sorry to hear about Red.
i have to echo puss. my grandmother got shingles about 10 years ago, and it was traumatic. she was in more pain than i've ever seen... and hers got so bad that it never went away... it did permanent damage to her nervous system.
not to be dramatic... just sayin'... i'd avoid the place and reschedule, for the sake of others :)
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