Chicken Pox.
Seriously?
Chicken Pox?
Why would we have Chicken Pox? They have vaccines for that, right? Vaccines which were given to my children as I held down their flailing arms and nervously giggled under my breath while they screamed, because it makes me supremely uncomfortable to be doing something to my kids that feels like torture.
Turns out you can still get chicken pox even if you've had the vaccine. The difference being that you only end up with eight chicken pox instead of eighty. It took me a week to figure out that they had chicken pox, even though I took them to the doctor on Wednesday. Ace had just started to get a little rash on Wednesday that I didn't happen to notice until AFTER we had gotten back from the doctor.
They called me from the school last Thursday to say that Peach had a fever and didn't feel good. I went and picked her up and she said her tummy hurt. She barely even had a fever and she said that she had been outside running and then couldn't cool off. So I kind of wrote that off as a fluke, the nurse just took her temperature while she was hot! I went ahead and kept her home, because you need to be "fever free" for twenty four hours before they go back to school. She continued to complain about her tummy hurting, but she never really slowed down her eating. By Sunday she was saying her throat hurt and by the end of the day on Monday, Ace had a low grade fever and said his throat hurt. I sent Peach back to school on Tuesday but decided to take them to the Dr. on Wednesday because they both looked like their tonsils were swollen. I was afraid it might be step throat.
The Dr. wasn't much help, he didn't really address the fever and then we got the whole "allergy" rundown. I'm SO TIRED of the allergy run-down! The sneezing, the runny nose, the claritin, the benedryl, the kleenex, the snoring. Now he wants me to start teaching these two how to do nasal washing. AAAHHHH!!!! I was so desperate the other day, I had just mowed the yard and I was having a sneezy fit so I decided to get out the Nettie Pot that I had gotten for John (that he never uses) and try it myself. All it did was remind me why I pinch my nose when I jump in the swimming pool. There is NO way the kids will do that. And remember how I feel about holding them down and torturing them...so No. I got home after spending thirty dollars for the appointment and another sixty-five for an array of allergy products, and that's when I noticed the rash. I didn't give him any of the medicine that day or Thursday because I couldn't figure out what he was rashy about. Peach came home and I noticed she had a little bump on her cheek. Friday morning Ace came in with four bumps on his face and after further inspection had three more near his belly button, at which time I remembered the converstation I had with Peach last Thursday when I picked her up from school.
"Has anybody been sick in your class."
"Yeah. Ashley and Callie and Jose. Oh, and Brent got Chicken Pox."
Five more days till the official start of summer!
Achooo!
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