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Ah, the fun of winter in a pediatrics office. One of the lovely wack jobs who doesn't believe in any vaccinations kindly exposed two of my patients to pertussis (whooping cough) last week. Now, they have colds and horrific coughs. Joy. Let me just say, the way to culture that sucks ass. You have to jam a q-tip up their nose and into their sinuses/back to the top of the soft pallet--twice.
These kids will be a year old next week. Imagine the fun.
So, I didn't get out of work until nearly seven forty-five last night. And poor Jess was stuck with me, since we drove together.
But hey, y'know, I'm sure that vaccine would have caused a whole day of fever. The month of pertussis the kid will have, with its potential seizures and coughing until the lungs bleed, fevers up to 106, etc., will be much better.
I hate people.
Ah, the fun of winter in a pediatrics office. One of the lovely wack jobs who doesn't believe in any vaccinations kindly exposed two of my patients to pertussis (whooping cough) last week. Now, they have colds and horrific coughs. Joy. Let me just say, the way to culture that sucks ass. You have to jam a q-tip up their nose and into their sinuses/back to the top of the soft pallet--twice.
These kids will be a year old next week. Imagine the fun.
So, I didn't get out of work until nearly seven forty-five last night. And poor Jess was stuck with me, since we drove together.
But hey, y'know, I'm sure that vaccine would have caused a whole day of fever. The month of pertussis the kid will have, with its potential seizures and coughing until the lungs bleed, fevers up to 106, etc., will be much better.
I hate people.
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Date: 2006-01-17 06:43 pm (UTC)She just sorta "forgot" to do those things until the school had to play hardball with her.
Parents like that piss me off so much, and not just from a rhetorical/ theoretical standpoint. I was one of those kids you just described.
Grrr..
Sorry you had to deal with that. I'm sure you are just as pissed too, from having to deal with it daily.