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February 2014 Moms
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WWYD? Ebola-related **Update**
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Update: we pulled the kids and have kept/will keep them home this whole week using PTO, family, and backup care offered by my employer.
I called around like a crazy person Monday searching for a new school, and actually found one that had an immediate opening for an infant and preschooler, by some miracle. They start there Monday; hopefully it turns out to be just as good as the school we're leaving.
The infection of nurse #2 makes me feel a lot less crazy for pulling the kids.
Now the real question: do I go there to get all their stuff, or call it a loss? Someone pass me a Xanax, plz.
Long story short, my children attend daycare with the children of numerous healthcare workers from the hospital in Dallas that's been treating the ebola patient(s).
Am I totally over reacting if I pull them out, at least until this all gets under control? I was cool when it was just Patient Zero. Now that a healthcare worker has been infected, I keep wondering if the next healthcare worker to be infected might be a mother/father of a child that shares a classroom with my child(ren). The scientist in me says there's virtually no chance that anything could happen. The school has released numerous memos since this all started about the precautions they're taking, but it is a daycare, and kids are dirty creatures.
WWYD? Pull them? Ride it out? My husband and I are trying to figure out how we could flip flop working from home...his job doesn't lend itself to working from home. Mine does, to a degree. I'm so frustrated by this whole situation.
Ethan Michael - 12/21/09
Norah Jewel - 2/26/14
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Re: WWYD? Ebola-related **Update**
My husband was an air medial pilot during the swine flu epidemic in 2009, and it was super scary to have him fly a swine flu patient and then come home to me and my newborn. He would go straight to the shower and put his clothes in the wash before he even said hello to us.
Some of my thoughts/insight:
1) The flu is way more contagious and common than Ebola, and can absolutely be fatal. Think about what your response would be if there were a flu outbreak. That might help you judge whether you're thinking clearly.
2) When you say, "healthcare workers," do you know in what capacity? I wouldn't be worried about L&D nurses, but if you know they're working in the communicable diseases unit, I'd be more concerned.
3) If your job was really flexible and pulling them out wouldn't be a problem, it's an easier call, but it sounds like it would be problematic. That means the cost of pulling them out is probably a lot higher than the infinitesimal risk of leaving them in.
Overall, I probably would not pull them out of day care yet, but I would not judge you if you did!
@adinashoshana, yes, I'd pull them till there were no more cases among healthcare workers. I would have been fine if other people from the general public (patient Zero's family, those he had contact with prior to diagnosis) had been consequently infected. It's the fact that this was a nurse, wearing PPE, who knew she was being exposed that's bothering me. Either protocols weren't being followed, or they aren't sufficient. Either way, what would keep Ebola from being tracked into school on contaminated shoes, clothing, hands, etc?
And with that, I think I've made the decision to pull them. I'll just have to figure something out...
Ethan Michael - 12/21/09
Norah Jewel - 2/26/14
Ethan Michael - 12/21/09
Norah Jewel - 2/26/14
But the flu is more common and probably more of a threat to our little ones!
Edit: typo
I know I wouldn't get crap done work-wise if my kids were home. And with the long incubation period it could be a long time before there's a sense of "all clear". The good news is, ebola is relatively hard to catch and you're not contagious until you have symptoms so the chance of a DC child's parent getting sick, then passing it along to their LO, and that child passing it on to yours is quite low.
I get the worry, but it doesn't sound like pulling them out is really a viable long term solution without some other childcare arrangement. Could you afford a nanny or do you have family that could help?
Just flew home from JFK on a flight with a few passengers who had to get screened and I'm afraid of him coming this weekend. Lol talk about overreacting
Mom to Lily and Colin!
I'd be more worried about the playgrounds or malls or public places, where extra cleaning and precautions are likely not being taken.
At the end of the day though, you need to be able to sleep at night (as much as LOs let you of course), and do what you think is best for you and your family.
And also....from the beginning it's really irked me the way the hospital and CDC blamed the nurse for the "breach in protocol" and her contracting Ebola. Now it's coming out that the hospital had no protocol in place. No training....didn't give proper PPE.
As an ICU RN, I feel so angry for her. I really have no words.
I told DH, if this shows up at my hospital, we are going to hide out at my parents farm in NH for awhile.
Come on CDC. Get.it.together.