This has been a stressful week for me. My husband has had A LOT of meetings and A LOT of eating out at restaurant events. I wanted him to skip staying at a hotel but it was too ridiculous with an 8am meeting so I agreed IF he showered at home and left after the kids went to bed. He came home from work today he fought with me to drive with other people which will have him leaving a lot earlier in the day. I am so exhausted from it that I feel defeated. I can't take it. Then I find out he had salad at lunch. Okay, so we've had this conversation a million times. If you have to go out to eat then eat COOKED foods! I am so afraid of norovirus and salad is one of the most common offenders!!! The worst part is this whole thing started with him being mean to me. Once again saying how he is tired of my irrational fears etc etc. I was upset because he said he would do something then he took it away. He does this a lot and that is what makes me not trust him. He wonders why I don't trust people - this is why! I call it lying and he calls it changing plans. Whatever. To make the salad thing even worse (and I know I'm all over the place on this post) it was a buffet. A BUFFET!!
Then the icing on the cake - his parents wanted to spend the night this Saturday - NO WAY - NO WAY IS THAT HAPPENING. They want to come after some convention. I don't care. I agreed they could come NEXT month, not this month and we aren't starting this they come every month s&^% again (excuse my language), It'e been a rough couple of days. Luckily my husband said he would tell them no (after trying to make me feel bad - which I don't). Hopefully (fingers crossed) they won't stop by - please have them NOT please please please - updates Sunday night.
Hey Sara,
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ReplyDeleteMy name is luke mclaughlin, i read your post and just wanted to say i know exactly how you feel, i have had the same problem now for around three years. It is such a time consuming and exhausting process to spend all day worrying about dirt and germs ect.
Just to put your.mind at ease about the novo virus thing, as a molecular biologist i can tell.you that you don't need to worry. Viruses are practically harmless in microbial terms, we have an immune system that has evolved over 3 billion years to deal with most micribes and most viruses ate very fragile and only last for minutes on a person before degrading (except for flu :)). I am mostly just a dirtophobe. I live in a city center so you can imagine how diffult that is. In most labs we don't use even use fancy disinfectant just ethanol, most alchohold kill.viruses bacteria sect and in very small amounts. I constantly piss off my wife cleaning surfaces sect with it.
If it helps whenever i get that fight of flight fear response, wait 10 or 20 minutes doing nothing or listen to.music and the fear eventually goes away, a bit like the 30 minutes.and your full thing.
Anyway don't worry there are lots of people like us apparently. If you live in America i wouldn't worry about these things too much as its quite a clean.country. i live i dirty socialist Europe where people are quite gross hygienically speaking.
Cheers
Luke
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