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The flu has struck at our house. My husband came down with it on our trip to Florida and when I just went to wake up my son David, he too, was hot with a fever. I so really don't want to get it. I've been thinking about all the things you should do to prevent spreading germs and as always, I'm confused a little. First the whole hand washing thing is hard. If the germs are passed by the hands and you have to wash them to keep them off, how do you know when is enough washing? I washed my hands before dinner last night and then sat down at the table next to my husband. We held hands to pray and while we were praying I was thinking, "yuck, now I just touched his hand and the flu germs are on me.". I couldn't jump up and go wash again, so I tried really hard the whole meal to not get my hands near my face, which made my eyes and nose itch like I couldn't stand it. I also know you're not supposed to use the salesperson's offered pen when signing your credit card receipt because a thousand people's germs are piled all over it, so I use my own and I'm feeling like I escaped and then I realize that the salesperson had offered me the pen and then put the pen back and then she picks up my bag to hand it to me. Okay, so now she touched the infected pen and then touched my bag and is handing it to me to touch?! I stare at the bag afraid to take it. And if I go immediatly afterwards to the bathroom and wash my hands, I'm then worried about touching the door when I leave the store because the person who just left probably used the disease carrying pen. When I got up this morning I stood and stared at my toothbrush sitting jauntily next to my husbands in the little cup on the bathroom counter. Flu or bad breath? I'm not even going to talk about sneeezing into the air and why my kids leave tissues on the floor next to their bed at night or stuffed in the seat cracks in Big Red. Revealing all this might lead you to the conclusion that I'm germ-a-phobic or something, but truthfully these thoughts just flink around in my head and I rarely do much about it all. I decided when it got so hard to figure out, that the best approach for me was not to believe in germs. Ask anyone who knows me. I've shared drinks with people that backwash and I never cancel an activity because someone's kid threw up all night and I hear about how many times and where it landed and how hard it was to clean up. (Why do we share these kind of details with others?) The germs are either out there or they're not and since I can't see them, I've decided to throw caution to the wind and live like there's no tomorrow. |
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