To be absolutely fuming.

[Skunkinabox]

A week before we go abroad...my neighbour sent her kid over to play as usual. After sometime she came downstairs to tell me and my partner she's just had a covid test!!! (WHAT). It was negative apparently and that made it okay even though they said they have a bad cough but it's not covid. Sent her home.

My child and partner were then struck down very ill, my partner being the worst. Few days later it hits me, only for me to be in the emergency Dr's yesterday with a infection deep in my left lung.

I am absolutely fuming. They had the cheek on the weekend to knock my door for her to come over. I went bananas. Only for her mum to message I double checked her covid test but negative so just a cough.

WHERE IS THE COMMON SENSE WITH THESE PEOPLE. I am going over later to tell what their actions have caused and to use their two braincells next time. Especially as they KNEW we are going away!!!
This isn't the first time as last year I'd send her home when they had Covid in the house for the response to be "yeah but 'the family member with it' is staying upstairs.

Give me strength

Surely you have the braincells to know most won't allow a sick child in their home...

and yet, you did?

I think the PPs point was that if she was visibly displaying symptoms why did you let her in?

If she wasn't displaying symptoms, then how do you know she was ill and passed it on to you?

I think you are massively over reacting.

Mildly annoyed - yes

Fuming and going round to tell them - no.

The mum didn't say 😖😖😖😖😖

Unreasonable to send a sick child to someone’s house yes. If my kids are sick I wouldn’t be sending them to anyone’s house. Some parents are selfishly oblivious to this kind of thing. You’re right to point it out

I've noticed...

I had to check this wasn’t a zombie thread from 2020.
It’s a massive over reaction to find out someone’s taken a covid test and be so horrified, shouting WHAT?!

Covid passes aren’t a requirement for flights to any countries and CV is treated no differently to any viral infection these days (extremely clinically vulnerable patients aside).

What is the relevance and the point of demanding to see her negative test?

Im starting to think this is a wind up. The incubation period of any illness or infection means that it’s unlikely a play date a week ago has caused you all to be ill with secondary infections in your lung this quickly.

This.

if you or your kids are a bit under the weather, will you cancel your holiday and stay indoors so as not to infect anyone else, o/p?

if not you’re a hypocrite.

kids get coughs and colds. A lot. They pass them round at school, swimming, ballet class. There was a bigger chance of them picking something up at school that from your neighbour.

in your op it says

"It was negative apparently and that made it okay even though they said they have a bad cough but it's not covid"

Most people continue as normal with coughs and colds and don’t isolate at home.

Just as I’m sure you will when you jet off on holiday with your cough and breath on your fellow passengers.

Isolating at home for 14 days and avoiding any public spaces, work, school or shops is the only way to prevent illness before a holiday and no one does that.

I get you are upset OP but I think you are misdirecting it. She had a negative covid test. That's it. Maybe someone else had it and they were being cautious, she may not be symptomatic. I wouldn't keep a child home with a cough, some kids can have a cough that goes on for months. I work with young kids and see a constant stream of snots, I've been coughed on and sneezed on on a daily basis. But unless they have a temperature or are off form they are deemed OK for interacting. If the kid was feeling well enough to come and play then they obviously didn't think she was harbouring anything dangerous.

Have you had to cancel your holiday?

Look out for an MN thread in the next few days.

”I’ve just spent 4 hours on a flight sitting next to a woman with a cough and i m FUMING!!” 🤣

Surely op has cancelled the holiday? Otherwise there'd be no point to the thread.

Well, I assume so! Surely you wouldn’t want to pass it on?!

Op has COMMON SENSE and brain cells so she’s cancelled the entire holiday because she has a chest infection.

It would be no fun anyway locking themselves indoors when they arrived because her dd cannot play with any children on holiday if she has a cough.
That would be SO DANGEROUS

I’d not think twice about sending my child to school with a cold or having a child with a cold in my own home. Since when did we start freaking out about normal bugs and illnesses? How did the doctor treat your infection? With antibiotics or telling you to rest? Going batshit at someone for you catching the cold is in itself batshit behaviour and you may want to take some anger management classes.

Is anyone else jealous that there are doctors out there that can diagnose a "deep" chest infection?

In the left lung no less.

i bet o/p is on “strong” antibiotics as well 🙄💪

I’m quite jealous that op has something called “the emergency doctors” where you can get face to face appointments.

Our local practice only seem to want a hand out phone appointments (very sparingly at that)! or tell you to go to A and E but only “if it’s an emergency “

For a "severe" infection 😬

She absolutely should not have come around poorly.

But if she was that poorly you would have noticed.

If you noticed she was coughing or looking unwell then you could have sent her straight home.

Or if you didn’t notice she was unwell, then she must not have been that bad.

Why didn’t you automatically send the kids home when coughing and spluttering. No one batted an eyelid pre covid. Chill.

Shes going to gather the strength to go round to her neighbours later today though to tell her Exactly What Her Actions Have Caused: A Severe deep left lung infection emergency that might spoil the enjoyment of lying on a sun lounger in Tenerife.

Reads previous posts...

Aannnnd BINGO! 😉

Yanbu.
The mum should have said, "she's a bit poorly but I've done a covid test and it's negative" and given you the chance to either cancel or say it was fine.

I always send a "by the way, x is a bit snotty" text to give people a chance to cancel on me if they wish.

I absolutely hate it when people visit or you have plans to meet them and they turn up with a cold and say, oh, I’ve just got a bit of a cold. STAY HOME AND AWAY FROM ME THEN BECAUSE I DONT WANT IT!!!