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On a Saturday in the late summer of 2018, I went to visit two of my best friends to have dinner

and play with their little ones who were about two and four

years old at the time. My friend is a teacher and had recently gone back to school in preparation

for the coming fall semester so her kids had just started going back to daycare after a summer

home with mom. My friends told me that there

had been an outbreak of handfoot and mouth disease at their daycare and both of the little ones

had gotten sick. They said it was super contagious for kids but not to worry as it doesn't really affect adults.

I saw a couple of little red bumps near their ankles but thought nothing of playing

with the tots or kissing them good night as usual.

The following Wednesday around 2 a.m. I sat straight up in bed shaking with violent

chills and experiencing what might have been the worst sore throat of my life. I checked

my temp and had a fever around a 102 so I loaded myself with NyQuil and stayed home sick from work for the next two days.

By that Friday, I was starting to feel a little better and I returned to work,

but that day the blister started. They were mostly painless, just empty bubbles of skin on my hands and feet that would rise to the surface and then tear off in chunks.

At that point, I was pretty sure that I had a case of hand-foot and mouth.

Remembering that the disease was very contagious for kids. pretty sure that I had a case of hand foot and mouth.

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