SCARY DAY

I had work at an elementary school today. I got there all stressed out; I was 10 min late because there was construction off the highway and it took me 30 mins to jut get off the freeway!!! GRRRR! I was so irritated. So it took me about an hour to get to work which should have only taken me 30 min MAX! Well I arrived safe, but rushed. FFFFEEEWWWW! Got to class, kids were just starting to arrive. Read the lesson plan. Today is Earth day so the day was supposed to be fun and filled with lots of activities. I was just about to line the kids up to go to art class when another teacher came in and introduced herself and said "Hi, I'm just going around to all the subs today to let them know... the reason why a lot of the teachers aren't here today is because there was an outbreak of Fifth Disease and it can effect pregnant women" WHAT WHAT WHAT! "so if any of our subs are pregnant we need to dismiss you" WHAT WHAT WHAT! I NEED TO LEAVE! awful things crossed my mind and I tried as calmly as possible to say "then I need to leave". She kept talking to me, but I wasn't paying attention. All I could think about was  getting my baby out of there and driving  straight to my OBGYN office, which was luckily right down the street, and find out how bad this exposure was. After many apologies from the front office and teachers not sure if I was actually expecting, I ran out of that school, straight into my car, called Nick to tell him what had happened, and drove the block to my OBGYN office. I've heard of the disease before but didn't know what it actually was, but if all the pregnant teachers in that school were out for the week I sure wasn't gonna stay there. The nurses in the office were very nice by taking me without an appointment and told me they had sent a note to triage and they would get back with me ASAP to set up an appointment to get some blood work done to make sure I'm immune to it. I left the office still a little worried but the nurses had reassured me  it wasn't an emergency. About 15 min went by when triage called so I made an appointment tomorrow morning for blood work and hopefully everything is fine. I found out that Fifth disease is common in children and most people are exposed to it as children and build immunities to it at a young age, but if you are pregnant and come in contact with it and you aren't immune to it, it can have a fatal impacted on the fetus. The good thing is that there is only a 1% chance of fatality in fetuses over 20 weeks. The bad thing is I was at that school about 4 weeks ago and the incubation period of Fifths Disease is between 4-21 days, so I could have been in contact with the carrier then which makes the probability of fatality jump to 10%. Another good thing is that I haven't felt sick and I have had 2 visits with my OBGYN since then including the Comprehensive Sonogram and everything has come up normal. I YI YI. I'm still a little freaked out, I'm trying not get too worried;  I just really hope everything comes back fine. From now on I will be asking if there are any out brakes of any kind of disease in a school before I walk into it. Until next time