Shit, what some people will do to get a free meal. They should have told you when you made the invitation so you could have said “Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. You know I have a newborn and don’t want to risk anything. I guess I’m just a nervous new mother. Why don’t I call you back in a week and see if you’re better and then we can make plans.”
Having a newborn baby often limits one’s “perspective.” New parents often treat the baby as if it were made of blown glass. This is normal, and not even a bad thing. If I had any disease I knew of, I’d congratulate 'em by phone.
Abdolutely. I was trying to bring perspective to the Dopers in this thread, not the newborn’s parents. I’ve been there, believe me!
We had a man come to work with contagious Chicken Pox, He was there a couple hours, before caught and sent home. Idiot! Some people don’t care if you catch what they have.
I was mostly just stunned. As soon as they left, after I finished washing everything that had gone into their kid’s mouth, I started researching what to look out for and called the pediatrician’s information line. The people I talked to were as disgusted as I was, though the nurse did tell me, as WhyNot mentioned, that he was healthy and so were we, so it was unlikely any of us would get sick.
Still, a friend of mine has a niece who was recently hospitalized because she got staph in a cut on her head. She was monitored really closely for a long time and only recently released from the hospital. That’s the only experience I’ve had with the infection until now, so I had no idea what to expect.
A friend of mine picked one up when she gave birth to her twins. She was sick for a long time from it. Gotta love the whole hospital environment, huh?
Another friend got one in his leg and it spread to his bone. The possibility of amputation was discussed, but after twice daily IV antibiotic treatments for six weeks, he also came through his ordeal ok. It’s scary shit!
I’m glad you said something to them. That is freakin’ nuts. I would have been livid. And I believe in the “that which doesn’t kill you only serves to make you stronger” school of living. That being said, keep your nasty infectious crap to yourself.
We had a co-worker come in with an active, itchy case of the shingles. My daughter was too young to get the chicken pox vaccine. It was because I threw a fit that he got sent home. He didn’t tell management he had the shingles. My baby was 3 months old at the time, she had been born one month premature and underweight, she was maybe 8lbs at the time. I was pissed.