Sick Kids in School

[moonfroggy]

California has similar laws about how many days kids can miss. or it did when i was in school that was a while ago though.

[kenyonchris]

As a cop, I became a total germaphobe a la Monk. People would hand me their driver's license and I would think...gross. But here is the cake....

I was driving northbound on patrol, saw a truck heading southbound...three shoes came flying out of the truck (yes, three, I found the fourth in the truck later). I turned around on the truck and finally got it pulled over in the parking lot of the high school...it was lunchtime and the kid was going back. We went through the rigamarole as to why he was throwing his shoes out the window (never really found out)...in the end, the kid was 18 and had a warrant out for burglary of a hab. So I hooked him up, searched him (went through his pockets and exterior garments, removed the items from his jacket, etc.) and stuck him in my car. I searched the vehicle incident to arrest and went through his personal effects as he told me he had a pipe in there. Found the pipe, touched the pipe. Finally transported the kid to the jail, helped him out of the car (touching his arm), searched him again in the jail, unhandcuffed him, put my cuffs back in my cuff case (I always wipe them off), and released him to the jailer. He sat down on the bench and started to answer the jailers routine book in questions while I sat down to type out my paperwork...I was listening only out of one ear. When the jailer asked if he had any communicable diseases, he stated he had, "full body herpes." I about left my seat. I don't even know what "full body herpes" is, but it didn't sound good. "Dude, whatever," I said, "you think you might have told me that when I was searching you?" He says, "well, you didn't ask" (I have to remind myself that a) he was throwing shoes out of his vehicle in the first place, b) he is 18, and c) a criminal. I had to go take a Karen Silkwood shower.....I found out later that he meant "shingles." Gross anyway. I got the lecture about wearing gloves when searching someone. Blech.

[shootingstar]

So kenyon, that maybe why some of us see shoe here and there on the road while we're cycling... runaway robbers, criminals. And it's not baby shoes where child loses it by accident.

Who knew. Things that one learns on TE forums. I've always wondered why would there be shoes along a road.

[kenyonchris]

So kenyon, that maybe why some of us see shoe here and there on the road while we're cycling... runaway robbers, criminals. And it's not baby shoes where child loses it by accident.

Who knew. Things that one learns on TE forums. I've always wondered why would there be shoes along a road.

I was so miffed at the full body herpes thing that in addition to arresting him on the warrant, I also charged him with illegal dumping...which is the HSC offense, as opposed to the city ordinance violation...for tossing the shoes out.

[OakLeaf]

Yikes.


Still (apart from the "full body herpes") it's a relatively benign way for shoes to get on the road. I've read many times that most shoes on the road are the result of accidents - they tend to come off people's feet and get left behind when the EMTs cart them away. I wonder if that's really true.

[sfa]

How about sick kids on bus trips?

DD woke up with a headache yesterday morning. We were scheduled to go with a group to New York for the day. She was in a lot of pain. I gave her Advil, told her that if she was really feeling that bad, maybe we should stay home. She wanted to go--it was just a headache.

Got to the bus, she was feeling lots better. Good decision. Glad we didn't stay home.

Three hours later, about an hour out of NY, she developed a fever. By the time we arrived, she was miserable, aching all over, exhausted, just wanted to go home. She wanted a nice warm bed. Instead we were stuck in the city for the next seven hours and it was chilly and a bit blustery and my guide book didn't have a section on "where to go when your child feels like crap and isn't even interested in the stuffed animals at FAO Schwartz so you know she's REALLY sick."

She did perk up for a little bit in the mid-afternoon, but mostly it was just seven hours of suffering. And I don't feel any better knowing we probably exposed the whole bus to this thing (although she kept entirely to herself, didn't interact with any of the other kids, and stayed seated the whole time, so that minimized exposure).

Sarah

[malkin]

"Full body herpes" *eye roll*
Get ready for MRSA!