It seems I have a mild case.  No official diagnosis, but symptoms match.  No fever, and I'm mostly okay (giant ugly blisters are on my feet but just one or two little ones on my hands.)  My big worry is that I'll give it to the baby, and I want to somehow keep the other babies in the day care from catching it.  Gah.

I've dealt with more illness in the last 6 months than in the last 10 years combined.  I did not realize that having a kid does this to you.

Eww.

I'm sure I should be more sympathetic, but... eww...

I have to agree.  My normally inoffensive feet are currently truly disgusting.

DON'T let the baby get this.  He will be MISERABLE and so will you.

My daughter got this at age 2.

You should probably call out of work and keep him out of daycare in case he does have it.

Wash your hands and I'd even suggest wearing gloves when you hold/change/dress/feed him.

Seriously.

Dude, Brice, I do NOT agree with you, I was agreeing with Billy the Fish.

My kid is in day care, which is a disease-infested place and a place to pick up horrible illnesses like this one.

I'd also call the daycare and tell them it may be going around.  If they are responsible at all, they'll warn other parents.

Hand, foot, mouth is AWFUL and it lasts FOREVER.

Muppet, it's probably too late (two days of exposure before I figured out what it was, first blisters appeared Friday evening).  But I will be diligent with the hand washing before seeing him.

The day care has been informed.  They're not letting me in for any reason at this point.  They're willing to take the baby, but they'll come out and get him from me and bring him and his stuff out to me in the evening.  I can't pump in there until the blisters are gone.

Our daughter had a rash last year that turned out not to be Foot and Mouth.  Even though she didn't have all the symptoms of F&M, they were freaked out about it at pre-school until we got three doctors to say "no, it's just a boring rash."

Brice..

Thank you for letting us know you are childless.
Which is a very good thing. You are a f*k jack ass. What kind of nut job blames a parent for there kid getting sick?

actually, I'm not sure what he was accusing me of, as my kid is fine, I'm the one with the blisters.  perhaps he thinks that contracting a viral illness is a symptom of poor hygiene?  He probably never gets the common cold, either.

I think the consensus is that it's not the real Brice, or at least some of the Brice postings aren't.  It's just someone trolling.

his  Hash Matched his though of the day Posts..

Anyhow.. The Brice who posted on this thread is a J* Ass

It's when the blisters pop that it's most transmittable, if I recall correctly.  I'd still consider gloves.  They may be uncomfortable for him when you're handling him but it will be far superior to the agony of hand, foot, and mouth.

Sarah could barely eat for 6 weeks.  I had to numb her with Orajel for every meal and even then she howled.

>>I've dealt with more illness in the last 6 months than in the last 10 years combined.  I did not realize that having a kid does this to you.

Yeah welcome to parenthood.  It goes downhill from here sometimes.

I've been googling, and it's most contagious during the first week and is spread through the usual ways (coughing, sneezing, etc) in addition to if the blisters pop.  I'm not certain they will - the ones that have turned into real blisters have actually been shrinking and there are a lot fewer of them today than there were yesterday.  So it's probably getting better.  I don't have any blisters in my mouth (thank goodness, that sounds incredibly unpleasant).

If they pop when you're wiping his mouth with a cloth you'll notice afterward, not before, and you'll wish you'd worn gloves.

:)

Hope you feel better.  Be careful.

<<<My kid is in day care, which is a disease-infested place and a place to pick up horrible illnesses like this one.>>>

<<<Thank you for letting us know you are childless.
Which is a very good thing. You are a f*k jack ass. What kind of nut job blames a parent for there kid getting sick?>>>

Well, I can tell you this much - if I had a kid and I thought the origin of ANY disease resulted from my placement of that child in a day care facility. I would REMOVE THE CHILD IMMEDIATELY.

The poster acknowledged that the day care was "disease-infested" so I think the parent is a bad parent if the child is not allowed to be removed...

Actually, I really don't care - I was just responding to the posting using my own style and remarks.

If you've never had a child before, you probably don't know that ALL day cares and schools are disease infested, particularly in the winter.  Unless they're home schooled, every kid goes through a phase where they are constantly sick, and it will either be when they start day care or when they start school.

Well, for those of you who DO HAVE small children you are raising.....don't bitch, moan or complain.....

You knocked someone up and had em' now ya gotta raise em.'

I do NOT feel sorry for any of you.....In fact, I think those of you who are papas, may be the suckers......

So sad,,,,,so sad......

I'll remember how bad you have it when I drive home tonight from work in my nice ride to a QUIET place called home devoid of diseases, kids, unseemly noises or a nagging wife who, in all liklihood doesn't understand me and witholds sex every chance she gets......

Yea,.....I R E A L L Y do feel sorry for you married men out there!!!!

Dumb asses......go ahead and get married......I'll drink a cold one for you this Friday when I'm at the club partying, socializing and having fun....

I know that children in general are little disease infested pus balls.

Which is why I think if smoking can be banned from public spaces, they should be too.

By the way, I wonder if my last posting on this thread described HOW TIGER WOODS felt before he started actually having FUN IN LIFE with the money he rightfully earned.

Maybe he could relate to some of your child-disease infested stories....hmmmmmm

"You knocked someone up and had em' now ya gotta raise em.' "

I am grateful every day for my son.  Every damn day.

Someone please fill Brice in, I don't have the right words.

>> Well, I can tell you this much - if I had a kid and I thought the origin of ANY disease resulted from my placement of that child in a day care facility. I would REMOVE THE CHILD IMMEDIATELY. <<

And you'd be doing your child a disservice.

You *want* your kid to get these illnessnes. It builds their immune systems up for later life. 

Good example: Measles.
Bad as a child, potentially lethal as an adult.

Brice.. To enlighten your ignorance.

It’s not the day care that is disease infested. It the other kids in the day care. Once a kid, for the first time is around a group of other people regularly, he\she keeps getting sick until his\her immune system builds up to the point where he\she can fight off this stuff.

If you pull you kid out of Day Care you are just delaying the inevitable. (Till First, he\she has to start school)

I would love to see the conversation you have with your wife when you “REMOVE THE CHILD IMMEDIATELY” from daycare and tell he to quit her job.

>> Actually, I really don't care - I was just responding to the posting using my own style and remark
So you are Troll. By admission.

Brice -
TGP and her husband tried for almost two years to conceive.

Why don't you leave your foot in your mouth for a little longer?

>> Yea,.....I R E A L L Y do feel sorry for you married men out there!!!!

The feeling is Mutual.  You will live a lonely life.

HFMD is not a fucking disease that I think a child should "Get" to boost his/her immune system.

That philosophy, in my opinion relates more to BACTERIAL illnesses, ASSHAT not VIRAL illnesses.....guess what?

Did you know that there is no fucking cure for HFMD?

The literature I researched on it suggests that because it is VIRAL in nature, there is no fucking cure....it's kind of like HIV.....you can CONTROL it but you can't CURE it...

So, you fucking ill-informed retarded parents out there who bash me for saying I would remove a child immediately from day care....that's what I would do.....and I think I have a very good reason for it...

For you myopic thinkers out there who scratch your ass in response saying that "yea, ok, remove the child and who is going to watch him/her - because no one can afford not to work and we are a dual income household..."

My response to that remark is that YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD KIDS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE KIDS......

So in my world, if I had a kid or kids, I WOULD be able to REMOVE them because I WOULD HAVE THE INCOME TO SUPPORT THAT MOVE.....

This fucking board is as retarded in its child rearing philosophies as it is in its software development "thoughts" on the issue.

Then leave.

You don't know jack about women. Have you even been on date?

What was your longest relationship?

<<<You don't know jack about women. Have you even been on date?

What was your longest relationship?>>>

I won't even dignify that with a response except to say, that I SUSPECT that I can run RINGS around most of the male posters on this site when it comes to meeting/hooking up with women.....

Haahahahaha....geesh...that's too funny.....

My life is VERY comfortable and very good......I suspect that's more than I can say for some of the posters on this site.....

Hey, Brice, chicken pox is viral in nature, mild when a child catches it, and sometimes fatal when an adult does.  Your way of thinking would put someone at risk of dying from something as simple as chicken pox as an adult when they could have just gotten mildly ill as a child.

Nevermind, Brice, it's a waste of effort to talk to you.

>>I won't even dignify that with a response

That’s what I thought.

Here is my prediction for the rest your life:

1) All you friends get married and start family leaving you to “Party” by yourself.
2) You never find love. Not once. Not one meaningful relationship, AND you keep telling yourself you are better off for it.

You are heading down a horrible path…
I hope you come from a large family, and you have many nieces and nephews, so you can save some long term joy in your life.

"That philosophy, in my opinion relates more to BACTERIAL illnesses, ASSHAT not VIRAL illnesses.....guess what? "

FWIW, you do realize that the immune system adapts and copes much better with viral infection? This is the whole point of vaccination?

"The literature I researched on it suggests that because it is VIRAL in nature, there is no fucking cure....it's kind of like HIV.....you can CONTROL it but you can't CURE it..."

YES, in this way it is similar to the COMMON COLD, or even the more common INFLUENZA.  actually, if it were BACTERIAL, we'd be treating with ANTIBIOTICS.  But because it is VIRAL, we allow the IMMUNE SYSTEM to deal with it.  Luckily, most of us HAVE an IMMUNE SYSTEM and given a week or two it can COMPLETELY CURE just about ANY common illness out there (and in fact DOES on a regular basis).

Wow, that was fun.  I see the appeal.

Also, while we can afford to have a stay at home parent, neither of us is willing to take the career hit.

Brice, I deleted your postings.

I agree with them 100% though, nothing personal but as long as you don't un-delete mine, I'll be deleting yours even though I am your only supporter here.

Excellent comments, BTW. Couldn't have said it better.

I don't think you guys should have done that.

Although I admit hovering the red X.

You can up-vote them.

I put them back.

>> This fucking board is as retarded in its child rearing philosophies as it is in its software development "thoughts" on the issue.

Yeah, I thought I knew all about raising kids when I was on the sidelines, too.  Then they showed up.  Practice is very different from theory.

Come to think of it, Brice has *exactly the same* know-it-all attitude about software development, too

No, I think I understand the immense and monumental responsibility involved in having and raising kids which is EXACTLY why I never had them.

I think, for my money, that such a decision was VERY RESPONSIBLE>

<<<Brice, I deleted your postings.

I agree with them 100% though, nothing personal but as long as you don't un-delete mine, I'll be deleting yours even though I am your only supporter here.>>>

I do NOT delete ANY POSTING irrespective of its invective value whether it is directed towards me or anyone else.

Having said that, I will NEVER delete anyone's posting on this forum.

I don't believe in doing such a thing.

I respect everyone's opinion. So, if I'm accused of deleting postings then that's exactly what it is....a FALSE allegation.....

OK, Brice, here is a challenge.

I've been happily married for thirty years. I've never slept with anyone other than my wife, and we waited until we were married.

Run rings around that!

Yeah, bravo, but unfortunately FB you're the poster-child for the half-full glass..

> Wow, that was fun.  I see the appeal.

ROFL!

I hope you're feeling better, purple. I'd give you a hug but... maybe it can wait until after the sores go away?

<<<I've been happily married for thirty years. I've never slept with anyone other than my wife, and we waited until we were married.

Run rings around that!>>>

Congratulations! I don't know what you want me to say in response to that statement....I suspect you are a good husband if your claim is true....

I suspect I am a master of ceremonies in the club scene.....two different contexts of events....

I don't "run rings around" activities that aren't a part of my experience.....but having said that, I don't PROCLAIM to anyway.....

I dunno, but I completely buy Fan Boy's statement.

I mean, I'm just impressed he found one woman that would sleep with him.

He probably bored her into submission with stories about automatic warehouse doors and wotnot.

<grin> You know I don't mean it, FB.

the sores are gone from the hands, except for one.  they're shrinking on the feet.  things are looking up, but I'm still avoiding the day care.

...with good reason. Do you know how many whiny little kids they keep there?!?