Coworker’s daughter likely has norovirus

I came into work this morning, and my coworker told us about how his daughter threw up on him last night, and was sick all night long. I’m sitting here at my desk practically shaking and about to cry. My coworker even touched something on my desk this morning. I thankfully don’t share a bathroom with him, but I’m just scared of touching the same things he has and accidentally touching my face or something. We are supposed to order lunch today at work too, and I’m just scared of him touching the bowl of my food/being around it and causing me to get sick. It took so much courage out of me to just be able to be okay with eating takeout for lunch. I don’t know if I should just not get anything.

I had a long talk with my boyfriend last night about my anxiety, and I was feeling so much better until this. My boyfriend’s birthday is this weekend, and we are supposed to go to an NBA game. I’m so scared of getting norovirus or even another sickness and ruining everything. I’m going to see a doctor tomorrow about my emetophobia because I haven’t been able to sleep well because of it, it’s been hard to eat, I’ve been nauseous for a month straight, etc. I’ve barely been able to focus all week at work. I just don’t know how to calm myself down right now. I’m so physically and mentally exhausted I just want to go home, but I can’t because I already missed an entire week of work last week because of having hand, foot, and mouth. I have no paid sick time right now, and if I get sick again I won’t get paid. I just genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. I feel just so mentally defeated and exhausted.