I’m going to add this story to my blog because I’m sure it will be of interest to someone years from now. I cannot mention any names, so I will call the main character, Patrick.

Patrick is a one-year-old child who has been very sick. For several days in a row, he was throwing up. Additionally, his bottom and private parts were severely broken out.

His mother took him to the doctor and the doctor thought by looking at him he had strep. The doctor stated they had seen this before. They have him an antibiotic, but they also took a culture of the area to send away for testing. When the culture came back, it turns out, Patrick has E. coli.

The person telling me this story is guessing the E.coli was caused from being in contact with farm animals. Patrick likely touched the animals, put his hands in his mouth and voila.

It’s not contagious and he is feeling better. The person telling me this story also said an article stated children under the age of five should not be in contact with certain farm animals because of the rick of getting salmonella and E. coli.

That said, Patrick returned for a visit with the farm animals. As the group of people stood at the entrance to the caged animals, someone looked down at Patrick and said, “what do you have in your mouth?”

It was a turd.

He had picked up an animal turd and stuck it in his mouth.