Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label illness

Surviving Hand Foot And Mouth As An Adult

(This was originally posted on July 23, 2014 on my blog Today's Words Of Glass ). I am still getting questions about my experience, so I thought that I would re-post it here on my this blog also)  I think I'm going to put this down as a milestone on Facebook. You know right after "got engaged", "got married", "had a baby", "contracted Hand Foot and Mouth Disease."  Because, I have to tell you, right now, it feels like a milestone. Don't believe what you read when it says "mild" condition. Apparently adults aren't really supposed to get this. I'm not really sure how I was 'chosen'. I'm pretty much a germaphobe. Oh, you know the one. Touch a grocery cart (get out hand sanitizer), pay for groceries (get out hand sanitizer), put groceries in car (get out hand sanitizer). And I practically scrub my son once we leave any public place. I think you get the idea. But somehow, Lil Man and I have contracted this ...