I don't get sick very often. Well let me clarify, I don't get puking pastile sick, as an adult I remember only three instances (freshman year in college, once in el ed practicuum class: second grade valentine's day party, and Thanksgiving 2008). And usually I don't have students who puke very often in my class. But this year I have had two within the last month.
One little first year came to me afterwards and I was about to keep him in class until I saw suspicious goo down his shirt and pants and then the trail on the floor (thankfully linoleum, and not carpet). Another little first year came to a center I was manning. When she didn't get to work right away, I asked her if she was okay. She told me she wasn't feeling well, and again I was going to try to keep her in class until her cheeks puffed out and she moved like she didn't want it to get on her clothes. Then I couldn't get her to the office fast enough, and wipe down anywhere she had been with Clorox wipes (I never used to worry about disinfecting until my class had 10 cases of strep throat, and I was one of them).
There are few things that make me gag. Someone vomitting in front of me is one of them. (Another time I was teaching second years and this kid projectile vomitted with noise right after lunch and I could tell what he had eaten. Ten minutes later the secretary was worried that I was going to loose it, and so did I for about an hour.) I also gag when fingers dig up nostrils and then proceed to the mouths (and surprisingly a few adults, not me, still do this).
:) grosss
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