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- From: ahelmers@umiami.ir.miami.edu
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Tasks That Make You Queasy (Was: RE: Sign of the Times)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.155111.14241@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 15:51:11 EST
- References: <1992Dec14.185813.22839@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Dec17.181151.5123@informix.com> <28952@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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- In article <28952@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst) writes:
- >
- > It's a funny thing, what you can stand. Before I had kids, I was the
- > terribly squeamish type. If anyone else vomited anywhere near me, I
- > was bound to do the same :-(. In fact that was one of my big worries
- > about having kids - how could I stand to clean up after them when they
- > were sick, without getting sick myself? (I was worried about gagging
- > when I changed poopy diapers too.)
- >
- > We all had the stomach flu a few weeks ago. My son got it first, and
- > came down with it in the car while we were driving home from daycare
- > :-( :-( :-(. He vomited ALL OVER the inside of the car. We were on
-
- [Diane's story of getting home and cleaning up huge mess deleted...]
-
- >
- > Has anyone else got this "selective" queasy stomach?
-
-
- Vomit isn't my fave, but it doesn't cause me to gag. What I do feel is that,
- although I don't *strenuously* mind changing my children's diapers (nasty job
- but...sort of attitude) the very thought of changing somebody ELSE'S child's
- diapers makes me want to retch! I don't know, maybe because it is basically a
- pretty foul task, I do it for my own but for anyone else--no way. I have
- occasionally thought that one of the many, many reasons to admire childcare
- workers is that they cheerfully do this job for such a great number of messy
- little bottoms that aren't their own.
-
- Just my own quirk, I suppose.
-
- Ann
-