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Well...my brother in law was a horror story.

We have had it come through our house twice (DD1 at 1, and DD2 at 4 mos). With DD1 we were all around her for 2-3 days before diagnosis and all survived without getting it. Only BIL got it bc his daughter got it. DD1 did not have many sores.

DD2 only had sores in her mouth and was basically exclusively nursing. None of us got it that time.

So...while I only have horror stories for symptoms I have good stories of adults who did not get infected!

I got it way worse than DD1 (blisters on hands and feet, don't remember whether I had a sore throat but no mouth sores for me) but DH never got it. Fingers crossed you get lucky as well!

DH got it this year and he said it was awful. He had sores all over his mouth, I believe a few on his hands, but mostly he was just feverish and exhausted for close to a week. He seemed to have a much worse case than the kids. I believe I had it a previous time and it wasn't bad (just a few mouth sores and no other issues).

Ugh. I got it. It was horrible. I had a very high fever and felt like death. My hands felt like they had small splinters all over them. My DS got it a second time and I didn't catch it!

My husband got very mild mouth sores. Couldn't figure out why they were happening and then we got a letter home from daycare notifying parents that students in my son's class had it and when we checked DS, he had the mouth sores, too. I lucked out and got nothing.

When DD had it both DH and I ended up getting it too. I didn't get any sores on my mouth though, just on my hands and feet but it sucked.

DH got it and it was a week of misery for him, mainly a horrible sore throat, he couldn't talk or eat. I can't rememrb about his skin but he has eczema so it's always difficult.

I was nursing LO, the original sick one. And didn't contract it. LO seemed happy, but was covered in spots.

@Mrs. Marshmallow: DS brought it home around 13 months old. I didn’t get it but dh did. Our 4 yo at the time didn’t get sick either. He had gone away with our older lo and his parents while I stayed home with the sick baby. He got a mild fever and was just exhausted. He slept a ton of hours in a row while the grandparents entertained our older lo and then he felt better. He got the hand sores but I think it was only bad for a day or two in terms of discomfort. So a day and a half of sleep and some itching and done—seems not too bad. I don’t know what would have happened if he was not able to sleep so much though.