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[learnteach]

Today, during the first class' egg drop (what a fun project! Great lead in to both space travel and car safety and materials engineering) I began to oddly cough. Big, deep cough from the top of my lungs. Strange. Also feel a little warm.

During the second class a parent left me a message: the student has symptoms identical to whooping cough. I was exposed to the student during the incubation period. I may have whooping cough.

It's not a bad disease...unless you are immunocompromised, under the age of two, or very old. So, I'm going to stay away from gatherings where I will meet those kind of people, and also track symptoms and get the vaccine.

No joke, 5 children have died of this. I hope I don't have it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20008713-10391704.html

Comments

[marysdress.livejournal.com]

It's probably too late for antibiotics, but call a doctor. My memory says you need to take them before you exhibit symptoms, but maybe it's before you exhibit the whooping part of the cough.

FYI, The booster shot didn't come out until five years ago, so any kid 15/16 to 19ish probably hadn't had it because they bundle it with tetanus and you have to wait until they can get another tetanus shot. I've been waiting for mine to get old enough to get it again. It's wasn't unusual for whooping cough to break out in middle or high school because the vaccine didn't last.

[jeanvieve.livejournal.com]

"If the pig sneezes, he's fookin' dead!"