Fear of Flying with Kids and Tuberculosis

Germaphobe? Coughing on peanuts.. Come on Steely Dad…. let's see some Steel… You didn't let your girl right this blog did you? The only thing you need to worry about is the Steely kids running up and down the plane doing cartwheels on 5 hour sugar rush.

BTW your weather in IL was a high of 46 with a chance of Rain… welcome back to Cali…. 70 sunny all day… maybe that can calm your germophobe issues….

I will call you after I done with 18 and you are on the ground. Sounds like you need a Steely infusion… Gump.

Well. What can I say? Except perhaps, did you know that pinworm eggs can float up in the air and be inhaled by an innocent passerby? The eggs will naturally travel downwards until they hatch and become worms of which the female kind will, when the night comes, exit the host's anus and lay approximately 10 000 – 20 000 invisible eggs in the proximity of the said anus. Of the gazillion eggs, some will hatch quickly and crawl back up, and some will be transferred to toilet seats, underwear, pyjama pants, hotel bed covers, linen, sofas, toys, kitchen countertops and even in the air, from where another passerby will inhale them. But there is also a kind of self sufficient shortcut which particularly applies to 2-4 year old kids. Namely they will scratch their butts at night (because the egg laying business irritates the skin of the host) and bring their fingers in their mouths unless they have dummies (and if they have dummies, the eggs will probably just live on them forever anyway). And even if they don't put their hands in their mouths, some eggs will have found their way under the person's fingernails, and become transferred basically anywhere. And in that anywhere place these eggs may survive for two whole goddamn weeks, just waiting for yet another passerby they can use.

And did you know that there is treatment for the worms, but no treatment for the eggs? You just have to hunt them down and disinfect and disinfect and disinfect and once you're done disinfecting, you'll never ever want to be in a contained space with another human being EVER AGAIN, because maybe you're flying over the continent and someone's kid happens to have pinworms… and the whole shit starts all over again. I'm not bitter, just stating some truths for the record.

Have a nice trip, otherwise. :o)