Basically me and partner don't live together. He was due to come and stay with me tonight. He said he has the start of cold coming on. I know his brother and family were sick with a bug this week but they still met up. It was a flu or a virus with a few days of vomiting. In my mind I am thinking maybe he was exposed to that and maybe the onset of his cold might not be onset of a cold. It might be a flu developing.
I have an underlying condition now and I have to manage it everyday to help minimise sickness. The idea of a virus on top of this doesn't appeal to me. I know viruses are nearly a fact of life and they happen but I think something like this could be minimised. I would prefer if we wait 24 hours to see if his cold develops into anything else especially considering he was exposed to a bug this week. I think it's likely he might go on and develop it.
Also during the summer a member of his family got sick and they moved around and mixed with people as normal and they all came down sick with nono virus. Unfortunately I also got sick too and it was an awful sickness. If was a quick 24 hour bug but it was brutal and I really think it was so careless and mindless and largely preventable if the original sick person isolated til the symptoms of V&D subsided. When I felt nauseous I steeped away from people and went away from work and went to my room and kept away from people and nobody within my circle of work and family contacts got sick with the bug I caught. That only happened because I took precautions not to pass it on.