Polio Man

22 Outbound/ going to church: Leila is a tiny baby who has only had a few vaccines. I didn't want to get any vaccines, but her Dad and Pediatrician convinced me to get some of them. Given that we live in a big city, travel a lot, and take mass transit, I agreed. We did not however, get the polio vaccine. There hasn't been polio in the US in quite a while, so I was cool with that. Dad knows that polio is still a concern in Asian countries and thinks that San Francisco is basically an Asian country. 

I was at bus stop with Leila in a sling, and I felt a tug on my side. I turned to find a little old Asian man with a cane, shaking Leila's hand.* I didn't want to be rude to him, so I smiled and inched away. I was telling Dad about it later, who stopped me mid-sentence to say, "Wait a minute, you let an Asian man with a cane touch her?! A polio man?!" I told him not to worry, that I wiped the polio off her with a wet wipe. 

*Tip- Everyone loves little baby hands, but don't touch a newborn's hands, especially if you are a stranger. It freaks out new moms who are germaphobes.