AIBU to cancel family visit

[LeeBird]

We were supposed to have family for New Year Celebration at our home tonight. Yesterday I called one of the guests for something and found out she’s has had diarrhoea for couple of days, most likely, rota virus/winter bug. She got very upset when I told her I would prefer her not to come, as I do not want to get it. We also have a 4 and 7 year old DC. I know I’m not BU, but another family member I spoke to about it, kind of said ‘it’s only contagious to people who have weak immune system’! I’m fuming really! How people can be so ignorant? I must add, those family members are all my DH side :)

Ongoing D&V: yeah, cancel. Minor sniffles - unless you know there is someone there who actually is immunocompromised, NBD. Most things are at their most contagious before any symptoms show, though, so there's such a thing as being too precious.

Am I the only one whose first reaction was to think of the state of my toilet if she came?

I cancelled my niece and her partner coming to visit as she had had a vomiting bug on 25/26th and they were coming 27th. Her partner went down with it that day so thank goodness I cancelled her. She was desperate to come see us and we were looking for ward to the visit but it wasn't worth it to all then go down worth a horrible bug. Sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind!

Sorry anyone who wants to come to your house, for what is a non essential visit with a bug is a twat

YANBU. Who'd want to go out when they have the trots, anyhow?

Rossigigi thank you for your kind thoughts. Sadly he's at the end of his life and we've just been told there have been more residents get D&V and we are unlikely to be allowed back before Wednesday. Fingers crossed he doesn't catch it as well.

I'm a bit of a hard-arse when it comes to D&V because it's so damned contagious. I've written about this before, but once a family member dropped round, on their way back home from a camping trip, in the throes of vomiting (most of the family had had it, so we knew what it was), bless them.

I was due to leave with my DS the next day on a road trip to the south of France, so I was fucked if I was going to expose us both to that. I asked them to stay outside, and only to come in if they needed to use the bathroom. I fed them and brought them cups of tea on the doorstep.

I quarantined that bathroom, and when they had left, I went in there, Marigolded, long-sleeves, wearing a vacuum mask (which I swiped from my wood-working ex), and bleach-bombed the shit out of it (literally!), including bleaching all the door-handles they'd touched on their way in. I felt like a thief in movie clearing up their own fingerprints after a job :) We didn't catch a thing.

So now I care not one jot if I'm accused of over-reacting.

UPDATE. Yesterday we went to a party, and that silly cow, who had runs and who I politely asked not to come to our house on New Years Eve, Is not talking to me! Apparently, it was very rude of me to uninvite her! The cheek! Really do not understand people like that. She is the first family member I have had a...not even sure what it was? Tell me I was not overcautious.

Some people just don't think about others. Yanbu. Probably for the best she's no longer speaking to you.