So last Friday, my kid and I both come down with the flu. (I think we got it from our visit to the doctor on Tuesday. The rule of thumb is three days incubation. From exposure to onset of symptoms.)

School policy says you’re fine to return to school after 24 hours of being fever-free (without the aid of a fever-reducing medication).

However, Mayo Clinic says you are contagious five days after your symptoms begin. Which means we’re both contagious until Wednesday.

And since we both got the flu shot, that means the strain we caught isn’t covered by this year’s vaccine. Which means no one in his class has been vaccinated for what we have.

He’s well enough to go to school. In fact, I think he’s been getting stir crazy. So do I send my little germ bomb to school tomorrow?

Or do I keep him home until Wednesday? But that means he will have missed so much school. And since the school policy says he’s fine to go to school, they won’t be excused absences.