I am RSV negative, as the blood donation checks for that. They frequently use my blood for babies.
Having said that, I was intimately exposed to RSV when my grandson went from "he's a little off, I called the Dr and they said they're booked up today" to I'm going to the Er. To we're life flighting him to Children's Hospital in just a few hours. Dude spent 18 days fighting for his life and we were not expecting him to survive. He miraculously did, and is still catching up developmentally a year later. He had RSV, influenza and pneumonia but not "C". When you see a weeks old baby intubated and in a medically induced coma struggling as he did, not much else matters. Both mom and I stayed with him, held him when allowed , etc and neither of us got it. I have asthma and part of me was worried I would be in the neighboring bed fighting myself. The hospital tested me every few days because I was exposed and high risk. Very lucky.




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