There have been several cases of the swine flu in our town. At the school where I work, there are bottles of hand sanitizers everywhere. We're also wiping down tables w/antibacterial wipes before we start teaching. In one of the 1st grade classes that I work in there were 7 kids gone today because they were not feeling well. I didn't have to work as hard with all those kids gone, but I worry that some of them may not have health insurance and not be able to go to the doctor. Aaaggghhh! I wish I was a billionaire, so I could help all these kids!
I think the worst 'disease' you could get when I was in school was chicken pox. I remember my friend got it in Kindergarten - he was gone for a whole week. I'm not sure when I got it, I know I had it though, I have a scar to prove it.
When Jonathan was born we had the options to give him the chicken pox vaccination. We didn't let him have it. Six years later when Jason was born, it was required before he went to school unless you filled out a waiver.
Another 'disease' you could get that was bad was UKU'S (pronounced "oo-koos"). Okay it's not really a 'disease.' It's just head lice. My little cousins would fly over from Maui to stay with us for the summer and go home with chicken pox scars and UKU's. Poor things! It's funny because none of us got UKU's but they did (must have got them on the plane).
My dear mother-in-law was said to have sprayed RAID on her kids head when she found they had head lice. Different strokes, for different folks! Don't ask me if it worked, I wasn't there!
Later!
