The first instance I can remember saying this out loud, was when my daughter was Patient Zero (or Child Zero) at daycare for Hand, Foot and Mouth (HFM) disease (not to be confused with Hoof and Mouth disease). We had been camping with 4 families when my daughter was 18 months old. My daughter had an ear infection on the trip (not known at the time) so I was administering Tylenol throughout the weekend for her fever and fussiness. One of the families borrowed our Tylenol for their little boy who came down with a fever. A few days after we returned from the trip, our daughter developed an extremely high fever that only lasted for a day. We kept her home from daycare for a couple of days. A few days after she returned to school, we received a call from our friends whose little boy had been sick, letting us know that their son was diagnosed with HFM and it was highly contagious. Crud.
Within an hour of their call, we received a call from daycare letting us know that my daughter (MK) had spots inside her mouth. Damn, damn, damn! Sure enough, she had HFM, and worse yet, she exposed her classmates. Each day I went to school to pick up my son, I would see a sign on a new daycare room stating "Confirmed case of HFM in this room. Please look out for the following symptoms...” All of a sudden I felt guilty even being at the daycare since we had been the family that introduced the virus into the school.
So, I was THAT mom! The mom who takes her sick kid to school and exposes the other children. The mom who is responsible for causing an outbreak at the school. The mom who ended up making a lot of parents take off of work to stay home with their sick child. The mom who all the other parents were cursing under their breath. Yep...that was me. Good times, Good times.
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