In the process

[newmama]

HI Babydoll! I am too tired to recap it all but if you get a chance sometime just read the last 2 pages

Ok I am feeling great with my feet up and still experiencing the absence of being sick.....fabulous!!!!

So I may have figured out what I "had." S has a mild strain of E. Coli!!!!![STEC (Shiga-toxin producing E. Coli) Type 1] He got it from his daycare along with 6 other babies!!! I haven't reported on here but there was a case of one baby. They swore it was isolated but still were required to get stool samples from all just in case. That was Tuesday. We were told we would get the results any day and FINALLY today the health department called exH to inform him that S had it. I am glad they called him because I would have FREAKED OUT and not been able to continue working!

So luckily, with the strain that he has, he would have shown symptoms by now if he was going to get really sick. It pushed both exH and I to decide to look for another place. Obviously not together, I don't think. I don't know.

It is ok for us to take S out and about, we just have to wash after changing his poopy diapers.

He will be sequestered at his daycare with the other 6 babies/toddlers starting on Monday for 2 weeks.

I haven't told anyone that I work with that he has it. It dawned on me that it must have been what I had when I was sick for almost 5 days! I don't want them to think they could "catch" it from me. I didn't share any food with them or anything.