Normally I stay away from antibacterial hand sanitizers. I just don't trust them and suspect that with enough use there will be some kind of freaky consequence. I'd rather saunter into a bathroom and use good old soap and water. Besides, I wouldn't eat the stuff and you know if it is on my hands then I am bound to eat some. Also, after thoroughly dousing my hands with the goodness of antibacterial hand sanitizer I feel as if I am wearing dead germ gloves and that makes me want to wash my hands. Give me a sink any day.
Until I am in a hospital.
And then I am outraged when I have to take more than three steps to reach out and get a germ killing squirt.
Anyone recall when I went to visit grandma, who was dying from MRSA, and she kept touching my face and I wiped antibacterial hand sanitizer across my cheeks on the way out of the old folks home, got temporarily blind and almost fainted due to the fumes? Those were the days.
The husband was in the hospital last night. Josh, Evan and me all had a one day stomach thing and I thought that was what the husband had until he started to run a fever and moan with every breath. I knew it was time for the ER but the husband was poo pooing me so I called the doctor, put him on speaker phone and let the husband hear it from him. The bottom line is that they don't know what was/is wrong with him, though his fever did go as high as 103.1 before they gave him tylenol. It was too soon to have any blood cultures back and the husband definitely perked up after 5 or so bags of IV fluids and a whopping dose of the medicine that makes you stop wretching up bile, so they sent him home. Go hospital! Like I have the ability to cure him? Pretty much as soon as he got home his fever started to climb and I dosed him up with more tylenol, and put a middle of the night dose on the night stand for him, and have crossed my fingers and toes that he makes it through the night without a medical emergency. I will not hesitate to call 911. I feel like what he has is completely out of my (LEAGUE) mothering cure experience where I can make things better with tummy rubs and chicken soup.
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