alroha
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Post by alroha on Aug 20, 2014 23:02:29 GMT
Urgh. DH is driving me crazy.
He is a total germphobe. Won't picnic. Hates eating out because other people have touched his dishes. Constantly uses alcohol based antibacterial handwash (which I particularly dislike, because there is so much evidence it's a bad thing, and he uses it at home where we have soap!). Won't touch me (AT ALL - not even to pat my head!) if I'm even slightly sniffly, even if it is hayfever. Takes a ton of (probably useless) vitamin pills a day.
We're going on holiday to a Pacific island that is basically third world (his choice of destination). We're staying at a really nice resort, but the health guides for the area recommend boosters of your Hep A, Hep B, diphtheria, and tetanus shots, and malaria pills most of the year.
Luckily, we're going in the non-malarial season, to the least malarial-likely area.
But DH won't get the vaccine boosters! He says he knows tons of people who have gone without them. If he was generally devil-may-care, OK, that's on him. But it drives me crazy that he is such a hypochondriac germphobe in so many ways, and won't do this.
Gah!
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Post by melanell on Aug 20, 2014 23:08:06 GMT
His logic seems so odd to me since I know tons of people who do just fine without anti-bac handwash, too.  |
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scrappinmama
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Post by scrappinmama on Aug 20, 2014 23:10:41 GMT
I probably would pick a different destination. If he is that over top at home, this isn't going to be fun.
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alroha
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Post by alroha on Aug 21, 2014 0:05:06 GMT
Haha! Love you! Everything is booked and paid for, so it's a bit late! He is a bit more relaxed on holiday - or, considering the lack of vaccinations, A LOT more relaxed!  |
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Aug 21, 2014 0:16:15 GMT
Make him sign a contract with you: if he gets malaria, or any of those other things they're telling him to get boosters for, you are SO not going to baby him when he's sick.
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Post by gizzy on Aug 21, 2014 0:19:55 GMT
That's odd. If he's that concerned with getting sick at home, you'd think he'd be even more so considering where he's chosen to vacation.
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Post by Florida Cindy on Aug 21, 2014 0:24:26 GMT
Seems like he may have OCD.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 21, 2014 1:01:53 GMT
He should get the vaccinations. Especially the Hep ones. Some Hepatitis can be transmitted via water and food prep. Not something to fool around with ( especially if he can't hug his wife with gay fever )
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Post by rumplesnat on Aug 21, 2014 1:04:23 GMT
He should get the vaccinations. Especially the Hep ones. Some Hepatitis can be transmitted via water and food prep. Not something to fool around with ( especially if he can't hug his wife with gay fever ) ...considering how highly contagious gay fever is!  |
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Post by Basket1lady on Aug 21, 2014 1:09:02 GMT
He should get the vaccinations. Especially the Hep ones. Some Hepatitis can be transmitted via water and food prep. Not something to fool around with ( especially if he can't hug his wife with gay fever ) I was thinking the Hep vaccines were pretty critical, too. Isn't Hep A a normal vaccine? |
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Post by Darcy Collins on Aug 21, 2014 1:15:14 GMT
He doesn't have a current Tetanus shot? That one isn't even a travel issue.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 21, 2014 1:15:59 GMT
He should get the vaccinations. Especially the Hep ones. Some Hepatitis can be transmitted via water and food prep. Not something to fool around with ( especially if he can't hug his wife with gay fever ) ...considering how highly contagious gay fever is! dammit HAY fever!!!! Lol I hate typing on my phone!!!! Between my wide fingers and auto correct nothing is ever right Sorry |
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Post by maryland on Aug 21, 2014 1:41:16 GMT
I would think a germaphobe would get the shots. I can't believe he won't eat out, but he refuses to get vaccines. That's crazy. He should get them, as he doesn't want to be at a hospital in another country, when it could easily be prevented.
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Post by Merge on Aug 21, 2014 1:56:19 GMT
I read an article recently that said that in many people, the extreme "germaphobia" is really more of an effort to feel superior to others, like a status symbol, and has nothing to do with fear of getting sick. Your husband might fall into that group?
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Post by annabella on Aug 21, 2014 2:33:30 GMT
Where are you going?
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alroha
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Post by alroha on Aug 22, 2014 0:10:09 GMT
Yeah, it's Hep A that can be picked up with water/food (feces). You're still at risk in the US/NZ and other first world countries as well, but more at risk in the third world, which is why a booster is recommended.
He has a current tetanus (and all the other vaccines), but they recommend boosters for travel.
We've agreed not to tell online until we've been there. Third world Pacific Island with idyllic beaches, perfect weather, and terrible hospitals.
It does have the bonus that tourism money is really controlled, so every cent we spend there will go straight to the local community. And I'm taking school supplies and doing a little volunteer work with a local school (teaching, not construction or any of that) while the DH lazes on the beach (or at least that's what he says, but bet you anything by day four he'll be crazy bored and will end up coming along to volunteer just like he has at every other holiday in other locations ) .
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alroha
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Post by alroha on Aug 22, 2014 0:14:07 GMT
I think it's more the result of almost dying of meningitis in his late teens. I suspect that all the things he needs shots for are so remote and abstract to him, and he's never known anyone who had them, much less died of them, whereas a tiny sniffle reminds him of how meningitis started. So he's (stupidly) more relaxed on holiday, because it doesn't fit into his personal 'this is how you spend 3 months in hospital' experience.
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