Maybe I'm jaded - sm

Posted By: Lee on 2007-10-26
In Reply to: Need advice - ex has pulled my kid out of school re MRSA scare - 500 miles away

but I type Wound Care notes every day. About a third of the patients have MRSA. Just because it's resistent to Methacillin doesn't mean there's nothing that will work. The advice for avoiding this is the same as for the flu - wash, wash, wash. Keep cuts clean and covered. Keep fingers out of noses particularly, because Staph likes noses, but out of everything. I don't know how effective hand sanitizers are but I send them to school with my kids because there are 2000 hands touching everything in the place (if nothing, it makes your hands taste terrible so you won't put them in your mouth or nose!) Is there any educating your ex about the realities, or are you both too litigous to communicate? The other poster is right - there's nothing really the school can "do" unless they want to wash down the whole school every night with bleach or something. We have two schools in our area that have had MRSA diagnosed, but after the big scary headlines we haven't heard a thing for about a week, now. Unless he means to home school your child, he's going to have to let him go back sooner or later!

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Need advice - ex has pulled my kid out of school re MRSA scare - 500 miles away
- Update - has agreed to send him back to school - 500 miles away
  - Sounds like you handled it "just right". nm - clhmt
- I think your ex is overreacting a bit - Jo
  - You must live near me - CJ
- Maybe I'm jaded - sm - Lee
  - I will try to talk sense to the ex - 500 miles away
- MRSA - (sm)
- Americans are such suckers for SCARE tactics - Scribbles
  - IMO - mt2
- never can tell what courts will do - sm
  - I know my chances are 0 with that court - 500 miles away
    - let school deal with it...You've got a bad court - sm
      - I think you're right - 500 miles away
    - Why does your son feel so obligated to stay with his dad?? (sm) - Lisa
      - Not sure what his issues are - 500 miles away
        CASA, etc in many states have been known to threaten kids... - sm
        Wow, that's awful! - 500 miles away
        I was one of the lucky ones...she's home now - sm
- mrsa - anon
  - antibiotics . . . - Mimi
- MRSA - MT
  - just trying on clothes in the store -- you can get it - krissy
  - It is not only in schools. It can be anywhere. On the news here - pc

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Easy to get jaded
I suppose if the kids grow up with it, it doesn't seem like a big deal to them and if they are taught right from wrong, they may still experiment with stuff but will hopefully make the right choice. Seeing all these school shooting, etc., it's something I can't imagine going thru when I went to school. The biggest thing we had was "speed" and Marijuana. No cocaine, no guns, no AIDS.

It's nice to know there are kids like my niece and nephew. My 19 YO nephew got a full scholarship to Ohio State and he's going for engineering. My 11 year old niece gets straight A's.