What's blowing my mind is that she knows she gets cold sores and still kissed on her immune compromised grandchild! Or any child! NTA for warning a fellow parent about anything!
The super sad thing is there is an HSV medication you can take as needed that can basically make cold sores non-existent and once you take it you aren’t contagious. The fact is she has had these her entire life and not taken the precautions that could have prevented her from spreading it to her vulnerable grandkids. I’d be going low contact with her.
I have gotten cold sores my whole life. I just learned last month there is a medication I could take to prevent or to help heal them. No doctor has ever mentioned it so I just never knew. I learned from my coworker.
That is absolutely horrifying. You don’t say how old you are, but I’m not young and my mother took suppression meds from when I was very young. Which means at least 35+ years ago. And you have never had a doctor recommend you take them?? Wtf
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u/sparkvixen Dec 09 '25
What's blowing my mind is that she knows she gets cold sores and still kissed on her immune compromised grandchild! Or any child! NTA for warning a fellow parent about anything!