About SVs going through the family...I would like to say that ALWAYS happened with my sisters. My one sister would get something and then my other sister would ALWAYS get it afterwards. The only reason I never got anything was because I wouldn't be anywhere NEAR them when they were V* I hid out in my room and in the basement...I would barely even talk to them and I wouldn't use the same bathroom they had been V*ing in either. In any case my sisters ALWAYS passed viruses off to each other. I was just a germ phobic person so I would keep away from the sick ones.
Anyway, I don't think you were wrong for canceling, I would have probably done the same thing. Although I don't think it's WRONG to leave a sick kid with a sitter (My parents did that to me once when I was little) and it was fine because I was really close to the people who were sitting me. But I completely understand your motives and I wouldn't feel bad about it if I were you.
~Monica
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