Reply #84: I have an immune deficiency

[Horse with no Name]

It's not AIDS or AIDS related.
I am also a nurse.
My granddaughter is chronically ill and both kids have asthma.
This is one I am NOT sweating.
IF bird flu hits, we have supplies to stay at home.
Wash your hands frequently with soap.
Avoid contact with your mucous membranes after contact with common surfaces.
Forego shaking hands.
I carry things a little further and have been soundly trounced on this board for saying how we keep illness out of our house, but after being outside in crowds of people, we change clothes and wash hands before getting comfortable in our home.
We don't wear our shoes through the house.
I clean with a Clorox solution.
We use anti-bacterial soap.
The best medicine in the world didn't keep me healthier than doing those things.
One of the most important things is staying home when you are sick.
There is nothing I hate more than going out in public and having people with obvious cold and flu symptoms handling my money or my groceries.
When that happens, I will always tell the manager.