Call for FAQs!
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I am posting a place-holder with current information in the stickied threads. The goal is to have something clean in place by the end of this weekend. This is a start. Mods can edit it directly. Non-mods, please comment on it here (don't want responses directly to it until it's in the final form). We will try and make it be everything that this group wants it to be.
I have thrown together a mini-mission statement at the top. Feel free to critique it and we'll change it to better represent the group. It's just how I see things.
I'm going to try and edit some of the stuff, right now I have dumped a bunch of stuff into that directly. So we have a place to start. It needs some serious filling out and clean up.0 -
Frob, I totally forgot but what about a "what can you eat when you are sick?"0
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Throw it up in there. Or better yet, start a post and throw the link to it in the pinned thread.
Any mod should be able to edit that post at will. And I promise, I will take no offense it you restructure or change the whole thing. I just wanted to get the ball rolling. Right now it's a mess. I am planning on working on it, but this week has been crazy at work. I'll probably try and make it a bit more structured, if no one else gets there first.0 -
As for foods I like when sick:
Beef or chicken stock, sometimes with bacon grease blended in (think bulletproof coffee except as a creamy, meaty soup)
Cans of sardines (if I can manage solid food)
Cheese
Lots and lots of water, unsweet tea (hot or iced), and coffee (hot or iced) to stay hydrated
Extra electrolytes (salt, potassium, and magnesium) if I am losing lots of fluids (through either end)0 -
Frob/all:As for foods I like when sick:
Beef or chicken stock, sometimes with bacon grease blended in (think bulletproof coffee except as a creamy, meaty soup)
Cans of sardines (if I can manage solid food)
Cheese
Lots and lots of water, unsweet tea (hot or iced), and coffee (hot or iced) to stay hydrated
Extra electrolytes (salt, potassium, and magnesium) if I am losing lots of fluids (through either end)
I'm almost afraid to mention this, both for fear of "jinxing" ourselves and for sounding like we're "rubbing it in" so please don't take offense and anyone that has a line to the "big one in the sky", please put a good word in for us - but here goes.
For the entire time our son was in school in our district, all three of us were exposed, every single school day to literally hundreds of kids and all the germs their parents decided they were too sick to have at home (so they sent them to school) and at least one of us got every single thing "going around" and dutifully brought it home and "shared".
It was almost a non-stop, one or the other of us sick, marathon.
I've always been pretty resistant to most of it or at least got "over it" quickly but my bride was at the opposite end of the spectrum and got every single thing going around and at least once or twice a year it just knocked her out completely. The older we got the longer it lasted.
Since we retired, neither of us has been sick ONE DAY! (which we actually didn't even notice until a couple days ago - way too busy doing "retired stuff" to think about it)
Sure as I sit here, she'll come down with something tomorrow now that I've said it though and for that, I'll pay <G>.
I really don't know how she did it all those years (40) (and couldn't be prouder of her, as well as all the rest of you that do) - but I'd be lying if I didn't say it really is nice being on the "other side of the desk" now. (though we both do, really, really miss the kids (but not the BS))
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Yeah, the amount of times I have been sick simply because I am surrounded by filthy disease vectors all day is crazy. I haven't had much of anything this year. Last year, I did have the flu though, that was horribly unpleasant (understatement of the year).
Right now, we have a stomach bug going around. It's taking kids out in large chunks. Some teachers have 25% of their class out (this was back on Wednesday, so not in anticipation of the break) from it. Just yesterday, two different kids in my class puked. One was so sick he just sat on the floor and puked between his legs. So sick, he didn't even move when the puddle grew enough that he was sitting in his own puke. This isn't a lower grade either. I could see that happening with a 6-7 year old. But, he is 10-11. You have to be pretty ill to not have the sense to move.
I'm hoping I don't catch anything. One last day to get through.0 -
Yeah, the amount of times I have been sick simply because I am surrounded by filthy disease vectors all day is crazy. I haven't had much of anything this year. Last year, I did have the flu though, that was horribly unpleasant (understatement of the year).
Right now, we have a stomach bug going around. It's taking kids out in large chunks. Some teachers have 25% of their class out (this was back on Wednesday, so not in anticipation of the break) from it. Just yesterday, two different kids in my class puked. One was so sick he just sat on the floor and puked between his legs. So sick, he didn't even move when the puddle grew enough that he was sitting in his own puke. This isn't a lower grade either. I could see that happening with a 6-7 year old. But, he is 10-11. You have to be pretty ill to not have the sense to move.
I'm hoping I don't catch anything. One last day to get through.
Aw, that poor kid.
And good luck to you today and next week.
I've always been thankful for the immune system I ended up with. When I was a kid, and we lived with my mom's boyfriend at the time, his oldest would bring her daughter to stay with us once every month or two. She was about 3 at the time (I was about 8), and every time, she'd come in to my bed one of the nights, and since she went to a different school, she had different germs. Invariably, I'd get something from her.
It sucked at the time, but I credit it for the rock solid immune system I have now. My son has brought home or been exposed to a number of things in the past four years and the only thing I've caught is a mild case of strep and the occasional cold.0 -
Throw it up in there. Or better yet, start a post and throw the link to it in the pinned thread.
Any mod should be able to edit that post at will. And I promise, I will take no offense it you restructure or change the whole thing. I just wanted to get the ball rolling. Right now it's a mess. I am planning on working on it, but this week has been crazy at work. I'll probably try and make it a bit more structured, if no one else gets there first.
Ok. I just didn't want to go crashing in with size 18 steel-toe boots and stomping toes. You wouldn't believe, or you might, how territorial some people get over group things sometimes! Silly, IMO, but it does happen. I'm just here to be a grunt and help the group along.
And about the Walking Petrie Dishes (aka children)... every time I take them to the library or the children's museum or if the in-laws have something, the germ factories bring it home. We homeschool so it limits our exposure to constant plague, but we still catch things here and there. I have to say though that since I started low-carbing, I've only been sick once, when everyone else is down for the count. It is very nice to not have to be sick and trying to take care of everyone while I feel like death.0
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