last night the ceiling came crashing down in my son’s bedroom.
along with soggy plaster, sharp rusty nails, and pointy peices of wood, came gallons and gallons of raw sewage (eewwww)
some landed on his bed where he and his sister were playing. while they were spared from any visible injury, they were both covered head to toe with muck.
i showered them with antibactierial soap right away.
i spent 3 hours cleaning his room last night while shouting obscenities at my upstairs neighbor through the ceiling.
you may remember me mentioning them in a previous post “NEIGHBORS FROM HELL”
every tiny little scratch on my hands and arms is infected this morning.
i used neosporin on all of them. and went through a half gallon of bleach on his room
i plan on getting the kids on antibiotics this afternoon.after all, they were covered in it
well, anyway, on to my question
my little brain, combined with my huge imagination, i am imagining E-coli and hepatitis.
does anyone have any idea what we may have just been exposed to?
my children’s hepititis shots are current, but how effective are they?
and i don’t know if i had a hep shot, but if i did, it was 20 years ago.
my kids were exposed for just a few minutes, but i was in it cleaning for over 3 hours.(i don’t own a pair of rubber gloves)
my stomach is churning just thinking about it again.
Did you take a picture of it so you can sue if you need to?
You better get yourself to the doctor asap & ask for the right shots. I know I asked the city guy here who deals with that stuff & he said he has 6 shots. You won’t need that many but you must get them soon. Probably at least a tetanus shot.
You should take pics & or save anything that it touched so you can collect from the insurance comp to get new ones & get your doctor charges back, etc.
Well, Well, Well,
You did have an evening didn’t you? I’m sorry, really, about your awfull neighbors and your ceiling.
On to the question…
As you might have guessed from my name, I have a little experience in this area of wast management. You and the kids have been exposed to all kinds of nasty bacteria, but should be just fine.
Each exposed cut or sore should be washed with antiseptic, just as you are doing. I don’t think antibiotics are necessary, unless one of you is already sick.
I know it’s gross. I know it stinks. But your skin does a good job of protecting you.
Back when I was in charge of 500 plastic toilets (being used by 10-16,000 people) I saw waaayyy too much of this wast material and people doing all kinds of things such as “fishing” in it. Yes, up to the elbows looking for what they had lost. Yuck. But a little soap and a wash, and they were just fine.
Lots of Lysol or antibacterial cleaner, and the room should be safe to move around and play in. Hope this helps a little.
Well, PrivyQueen sure sounds like she has more experience than me, but in calling my doctor’s office full of worry fro your litle’uns they told me to tell you to take them in to be checked. Being drenched in raw sewage, it can get in your ears, eyes every opening so you just want to be sure.
thanks everyone for your advice. my family doctor advised me that unles they somehow ingested any of the filth, they should be fine.
since i scrubbed them with antimicrobial soap as soon as it happened and i’m using an antibiotic creme on any minor cuts i find everything should be ok.
i apparantly handled the situation exactly the way it should have been handled.
my poor little brain just imagined the worst possible outcome and freaked.
i think we’re going to double up on a couple vitimins for a few days (just in case.)
my upstairs neighbors were honestly surprised to find me “a little more than indignant” about having several gallons of sewage fall out of the sky and land on my children.
Was it something the neighbors did, or was it just a pipe breaking? Thus, the landlord’s fault , if anybody’s for poor house maintainance.
I love it when a freak heavy rain backups up all the sewers in town and you have sewage 2 feet up the finished basement walls. Was that ever fun to clean up.
no, it wasn’t the landlord’s fault.
my upstairs neighbors flushed a diaper down the toilet.
not their kids, it was the adults who came up with this impressive display of brilliance.
after the toilet clogged, they were afraid to tell the landlord, so they left it like that.
no longer having a commode…they apparantly decided the logical place to “do their business” would be the bath tub.
it didn’t take long for that to clog hopelessly too.
(i don’t want to imagine the 300 pound woman upstairs squatting over the bathroom sink)
there is no telling how long they were living with the clog. my guess would be before Christmas.
but, now that the toilet AND the bathtub were useless, they regretfully got it in their heads to try to repair their own plumbing. <sigh>
and you can guess how that worked out from my O.P.
And I was upset because the woman downstairs smokes and has barbeques in the back yard, so all the smokes rises up into my living room and kitchen, choking me and setting off my smoke alarm . . . I am going to count my blessings!
Lordy-Lou. I’m so sorry you have such cretins living in close proximity. This is why I’m so incredibly happy we were finally able to afford a house of our own. Nothing nearly as bad as this, but the inconsiderate and downright stupid behavior of some people is simply beyond comprehension sometimes.
Take care of yourself and your younguns. Don’t ignore any signs of infection, and get legal counsel immediately. Hope it all works out well for you.
(Barring success legally, you could save up a month’s worth of your own family’s merde and present it to your neighbors as a token of your esteem.)
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
My city had about 4 raw sewage spills in 3 months so far, the biggest, 70,000 gal [might be more but some guy walking down the street saw it & reported it]. So there is a lot of talk here about what you can get from just surfing in a very small amount of it.