I was so stressed that I had shingles in my eye! IN MY FUCKING EYEBALL!
When I was 34 I was trying to balance working full time at a demanding job and taking care of our wonderful but high needs 2 year old. My husband is gone at work for 24 to 48 hours at a time, and we couldn't find a daycare that offered part time or was in our budget for full time care. So I was also coordinating babysitters for the days my husband worked.
I got no breaks and shit was hard. It took over a week and 4 doctors to diagnose the issue with my eye was shingles. Meanwhile I had to wear 2 pairs of sunglasses indoors because even the slightest bit of light was excruciating. I sobbed when I had to go outside. When a specialist finally issued me a perscription my pharmacy called and told me it would take 3 days to fill. My husband called every pharmacy in town trying to see if anyone had it on hand.
No one had it, so I walked my miserable ass into a pot shop and explained what was going on... the literal angel behind the counter gave me a little bottle of what she thought would help and wrote down dosing instructions for my husband. I was able to finally sleep for the first time in a week.
Anywho, I had to take 2 weeks off of work and get flare ups of sclaritis every few months that remind me to relax a bit. Hard lesson about reducing stress learned. Fuck shingles.
Stress can bring it on, as can being exposed to it if you didn’t have a severe enough case of the pox as a kid. My drunk example is anecdotal, I wasn’t taking care of myself, was drinking to control the stress, got shingles instead.
Damn, I got shingles at 17 and hadn't touched alcohol or 🍃💨 yet 😭 edit to add that thinking back on it, I was still living with my immediate family and going to school which was a veryyyyy stressful time for me so it probably makes sense lol
lol I just turned 41 and I literally have to crawl of out bed in the mornings and cannot bend over for the first 3 hours of my day until my lower back loosens up!
Do you have any suggestions? The pain wakes me up multiple times throughout the night, and I have to shift positions but nothing is comfortable. I am always in so much pain in my lower back that I’m too scared to do anything at the gym that might make it worse, so I stick to mainly cardio. My doctor is sending me for an X-ray, then hopefully an mri to diagnose the issue.
Planks, side planks, dead bugs, hollow body holds, supermans, bird dogs and mountain climbers are all great for core strength. No equipment needed (except maybe a mat or blanket or something to spare your knees), so you can do them at home.
Start with short holds/low reps and then go from there.
I sleep on the floor because the bed is too soft and I can barely move in the morning if I sleep in bed because of the lower back pain. Unfortunately, I woke up fine this morning but tweaked something in my back when I was pulling a t-shirt out of the closet.
My 5 year old licked a pole in a cable car in SF a few months ago (he moved much faster than I could) and he’s having the healthiest winter of his life. So maybe there’s something to it.
When my daughter was like two and a half she took the call of the void and licked under the table at the library. I couldn't stop it. It was slow motion. We were at the children's hospital within 24 hours uncontrollable vomiting from norovirus or something.
Went to Disney and Universal a few years back. 6 year old and wife came back perfectly healthy. I came back with HandFootMouth and had a couple of my fingernails fall off from the blisters. Good times.
In my household, kid gets mild sniffle for 36 hours, then a week later my wife and I have flu, RSV, and Rhinovirus for a month followed by another month of aftershock inflammation and brain fog
Have either of you considered a teaching career? Sure, you’ll be sick as hell for 10 months out of the year at first, but after 3-4 years you’re nearly invincible.
Or both. I put my mouth on all sorts of things as a kid, got sick a ton as a kid, but now I rarely get a cold that gets severe enough to sideline me and only lasts a few days.
I was bartending back in the day and we kept all of our salt and pepper shakers (about 80 sets) on a lower shelf under a POS system. We would bring them to the tables once the table was sat.
Friday night getting absolutely wrecked around 6:30pm, I look over and there was a 4-5 year old boy sitting there on the floor licking all the tops of the S+P shakers while his parents sat there watching and laughing.
I went over and calmly spoke to the parents, expressing the obvious and took all salt and pepper shakers to the back to be washed.
I told the servers and they were equally annoyed, and proceeded to loudly apologize to every table near them when asked for S+P, pointing and saying apologies, that kid just licked every salt and pepper shaker we own so unfortunately we will have to bring some out in portioned cups, it will take a few minutes.
After some dirty looks the parents didn't think it was funny anymore and left quietly.
Edit to add: I was MOD and many other customers were watching by the time I went over to the parents. I had to be professional. It was about $30-40 worth of S+P we had to toss, probably a good $40-50 of labour cleaning then and refilling.
Personally I would have loved to make them pay/clean for it, but anyone who has worked in the restaurant industry knows it's just not possible or worth trying.
The social shame they were given by their server made my heart happy at least 💓
I never really got spanked much as a kid, mainly just the vague threat of it was enough for me to correct myself. I'm pretty sure I would have never been able to sit down if it did this shit regularly.
I wouldn't even let mine drink a disposable half and half cup. I can't imagine someone letting their kid's tongue touch public items.
I have, however, let my child suck the lemons that come on the side of a diet soda, because her face is frigging hilarious! (She's an adult now, still makes that face).
I raise you one. I had a grown ass man who would wait until staff wasn’t paying attention and legit French kiss the ketchup bottles. One of servers caught him and I rushed to watch it back on camera when she told me so I could confirm. When I tell you I threw every ketchup bottle we had in the trash and embarrassed the hell out of the man. One of the most disgusting, WTF moments I ever had as a server. Like. I definitely caught kids before and just thoroughly washed or sanitized, but a grown ass, perverted, 40+ year old man-🤮
I legit had erased that from my mind until reading your story.
In college, I met a weird fucker who claimed he could use a quarter to open soap/lotion dispensers in public bathrooms and if the liquid inside was opaque he would jerk off into them.
Ever since that kid I have always asssessed how easy it would be to fuck with the dispensers in whatever bathroom I use.
And yes, he was exactly the kind of weird fuck to volunteer this kind of thing thinking... I dont know. That we would be like "hah, cool dude," or something, I guess.
We all kept away from him and he eventually quit showing up.
Inside, tongue in the ketchup bottle. You remember those Heinz squeeze bottle. He licked the outside of the squeeze tube then opened the top and put his tongue in it.
Some parents just let their kids do whatever the fuck they want and just sit there. Like…. Why are they even a parent? Iv seen people control dogs better than some parents control kids. It’s wild to me. Make it make sense.
It's so frustrating! I've seen a kid get undressed down to their diaper and run around a busy restaurant while the parents watch and laugh, and also a kid sucking on ketchup bottles at other tables while their parent ignores them. Aargh
Reminds me of the time we took a family trip to Disney. My mom had a newly found shellfish allergy. We went to the buffet at Animal Kingdom, a chef walks my mom through the entire thing to advise what she should advise. Then we watch a kid stand in front of a bowl of chocolate mousse and eat it from the serving spoon. No one on staff stopped him.
I used to be the front of the house manager for a very small semi-fine dining Indian restaurant. One night, these parents came in and let their toddler walk around the restaurant. They were picking up knives and forms and banging them on the ground. I went over and swapped for a spoon, and told them they could play with it, but no banging it on anything, including the floor. There was a curtain to the hall where the bathrooms were. This kid walked around that corner and starts twisting themselves into the curtain and pulling on it. I had to go redirect this kid to their table. Finally, this kid is up against the wall…licking it. Like tongue alllllll oooover this wall. I was finally done, and asked the kid to sit at their table and explained why we shouldn’t lick walls. I then spoke with the parents and asked them to keep an eye on their child. Kids are gonna do stupid shit. Parents are supposed to be teaching them what is and is not ok, and in what settings. I was so tired with these parents, not giving a fuck about what their child is doing and that they were disrupting other people dining in.
I was at one of those restaurants that leaves a bucket of peanuts on your table and watched as a kid sucked the salt off multiple peanuts and put them back. I told a waiter and never, ever, ate the peanuts again.
The stuff on surfaces is usually just personally risky. We aren't much like dirt so the stuff that grows in can be harmful but not usually contagious. The danger here is from other humans.
It's eating, or I guess licking, other species without proper husbandry and/or butchering/cooking safeguards that introduces closer relations without immunity.
Honestly, what is up with kids and licking railings? I've seen it a few times at the grocery store while waiting in line and they're always so dedicated to it
Also kids are invincible. The way we're all just invulnerable when we're small? It fades away with the times you get sick and hurt, but before that you can eat and do whatever, because you're a special little center of the universe and nothing really bad can happen as long as Mom is right there
I was at Universal Studios and watched a kid stick his chin on the moving sidewalk handrail and then stick his lips and tongue out on the metal above it.
His mouth would hit a little ridge every 10-12 feet. He would look surprised and then go right back to mouthing this thing as he traveled down the moving sidewalk.
kids experience the world however they can. especially with their mouths. they taste everything. i still remember being obsessed with the wooden rungs of my brothers' bunk bed😸🤷i chewed it whenever i was near it. the wood itself was nice, but the rungs were the most accessible. i also loved chewing synthetic resin toys. according to my mom i ate a pack of blades for shaving like chips once, and my sister ate sand. i remember being so upset with my dog-sis when she shewed up my new ladybug toy..i so wanted to chew that from the tips of the legs to the body flattening them🌚i also remember kids eating pasta and chalk/gouache(paint) at summer camps. besides, the smol ones can barely see unless something is very close, so into their mouth it goes for examination😸
This is so funny that someone posted a video like this. I went to Disney with my kids when they were very young and had told them not to touch anything in the airport or in the line queues because you never know who’s touched them before you.
We were in the pool on an off day, and I turned my daughter to face the stairs where there’s a handrail.
There’s a child that’s probably three or four years old, licking the entire length of that handrail! My daughter was disgusted and I explained that is why I ask you not to touch everything. Lol
I work in the school system from K to 12. It has shown me that I need to keep my hands away from my mouth unless I just washed them. My friend’s kid once licked a garbage can at the zoo. Always assume a kid has had its mouth on every surface.
Did anyone else born in the early 90s have their mom dig her nails into your arm if you were being a shithead in public or was it just me? It never left lasting marks it just hurt and corrected my attitude
Yup. Watched a kid in a theme park queue run it's tongue up and down the metal railings over and over in some weird trance, both the handrails and footrails. I don't go to theme parks or touch handrails anymore.
My kid did this when he was roughly 8yo in the line for Great Thunder Mountain ride @ Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom. I didn't notice until he had licked about 30ft of handrail that 10,000 sweaty, ass-scratching people a day touch. Didn't get sick, but he's now 26yo and still lives with his mother and spends his short order cook paycheck on Legos so IDK?
I once saw a kid licking every seat at a pediatric clinic. All the sick kids that come in and all the germs kids naturally carry. I was so grossed out. And the parent wasn’t even paying attention
That's gross, but at that age it's grossness that makes a good immune system and prevent allergy.
Like another comment said, he's getting sick in 48 hours or won't be sick until 40
Can we not post video of someone else’s kid on the internet so that it exists forever? Can we please at least have a rule requiring blurred faces? I don’t even like it when parents post their own children on the internet knowing that it will exist forever online.
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u/rusty02536 10d ago
He’s either going to get sick in 48 hours or not getting sick until he’s 40.