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My babysitter has novo virus!

73 replies

Gowgirl · 31/12/2017 19:38

We jave spent a fortune on tickets and are ready to go out out but now the babysitter has called in sick.
The dcs are all in bed and she only has to be here surely she should be fine?
At home she will be all alone, here she will have the goat for company!

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KitKat1985 · 31/12/2017 20:04

Norovirus can come on quite suddenly. There's no way she's going to want to work through that (I doubt she'd even manage the drive over without puking in the car or shitting herself). I had norovirus once and it was dire. Trust me, you don't want norovirus in your house.

Your options are either:

  1. Text everyone you know and beg for a babysitter.
  2. Phone Sitters (but be prepared to pay a fortune on the off chance they have someone free).
  3. Cancel your plans.
ShinyMe · 31/12/2017 20:04

If she really has norovirus then she isn't capable of doing anything. I projectile vomited for 36 hours and was incapable of doing more than crawling to the bathroom and lying in the shower covered in vomit and diarrhoea (sorry, tmi, but it was utterly revolting). It was the worst I've ever felt, and for about an 8 hour period in the middle, I was delirious and not really aware of what was going on around me.

Papergirl1968 · 31/12/2017 20:04

A goat? Isn’t it a nanny goat? Grin

WhoAteAllthePercyPigs · 31/12/2017 20:04

Tell us more about the goat OP???

Original poster
Gowgirl · 31/12/2017 20:06

It is indeed a nanny she was one of the first wave given out a few years ago, obviously times change and i no longer need to claim the benefits i did but the goat and the council house are mine for life.

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RedToothBrush · 31/12/2017 20:07

If you have norovirus, your ability to leave the house will be limited. I certainly was not capable of it, and there is no way I'd want to be at someone else's house with it.

Above all else its highly infectious. You do not want your children to get this.

FWIW when I had it, I only felt unwell at about 6pm. By 8pm I was ringing my husband telling him to come home NOW. So I don't necessarily think the babysitter is pulling a fast one.

HappyAndRelaxed · 31/12/2017 20:08

YaBU. There's not much you can do. Either find someone else to babysit or stay at home. It sucks but these things happen.

ShinyMe · 31/12/2017 20:10

Mine came on really suddenly too. We were in a restaurant. I was hungry and ordered a big meal. It came and I started eating, everything was fine. Then I felt a bit funny and went to the loo, and started feeling AWFUL. I had to say I needed to leave - I was with my mum in Vegas. They packed up our meals and in the time it took us to walk to the hotel, maybe 10 minutes, I had gone from feeling like I needed the loo fairly soon to running and only just making it in time before projectile vomiting all over the hotel room.

rcat · 31/12/2017 20:12

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BrucesBitOnTheSide · 31/12/2017 20:13

The babysitter is bloody selfish if you ask me. She could have come to babysit and you could have had the kids in bed, she could have been on the couch under a blanket and wouldn't have needed to see them. I'd ask her to recompense you for the amount of the tickets, after all, she agreed to babysit and has let you down last minute.

BashStreetKid · 31/12/2017 20:14

Not sure that this one is entirely serious, folks. The clue's in the reference to a wave of goats being given out to people on benefits.

Sigh6687 · 31/12/2017 20:18

Get her to sit anyway. You can always redecorate the house if there are any unpleasant body fluid splatters.

BoomBoomsCousin · 31/12/2017 20:19

That is atrociously late notice for something like norovirus - if she knows she has norovirus now she will have known she was coming down with something for most of the day. She could have given you more warning so you could at least try and find someone else.

But you can't expect someone with norovirus to come look after your kids, and If you did you'd probably regret it in a couple of days as one by one you all succumbed.

TrojansAreSmegheads · 31/12/2017 20:20

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MonumentalAlabaster · 31/12/2017 20:24

Given the late notice, do you think she may have had a better offer - a last minute party invitation? It is NYE....

Opheliasgoldenwine · 31/12/2017 20:30

Is this a joke?Confused

user1468353179 · 31/12/2017 20:31

Where are you, we're sitting watching tele.xxxx

C8H10N4O2 · 31/12/2017 20:32

Whereabouts are you OP? If its not too far out in the sticks maybe there is an active MN Local group?

19lottie82 · 31/12/2017 20:34

I’m a bit Shock at the idea of the OP recruiting a stranger from the internet to babysit.

AmysTiara · 31/12/2017 20:35

What are you talking about?

LizTaylorsFabulousTurban · 31/12/2017 20:36

My noro came to light halfway across Europe on the first row if an EasyJet flight. Felt fine when I got on the plane. Luckily was in dashing distance of the loo. Was dehydrated when we landed that I had to be taken off the plane on a wheelchair. It can hit fast and with quite serious consequences.

AlChris · 31/12/2017 20:39

I love the idea of random posters offering to babysit!

Obviously in the tiny event that this is a serious post Hmm do not do this OP.

Are the DC ‘kids’ OP like with hair, horns and do they bleat by any chance?!

unhingedtoday · 31/12/2017 20:44

Huh? I'm confused Confused

ZipItZebedee · 31/12/2017 20:47

Plot twist, it's a reverse and it's the goat posting 🐐🐐🐐

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Gowgirl · 31/12/2017 20:49

No definatley actual children we had the goat neutered to try and stop her eating the washing.
As im not going out i think i may pop out for someting fizzy, its ok to park in the pc places if you have a carseat right? Its just that i would hate to get my slippers wet...

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