Poxy poxy chicken pox

So I seem to have unintentionally infected half of the local toddler population with chicken pox, opps. Elliot came out in some very suspicious looking spots of Saturday and Sunday, and by Monday it was very clear that it was the dreaded ( or not so dreaded) pox.

Then I start hearing one by one from mums that come to my toddler group, and it quickly becomes apparent that lots of the little darlings also have the pox. I do have to admit to feeling a little guilty about this, but I am not sure you can feel guilty about something that you had completely no control over.

You have to admire the pox at least a little bit, they come in under the radar infect the kid and then make them a walking source to infect others, but cleverly give off no signs of their existence for the first 2 or 3 days when they are highly infectious, the cunning little pests.

Elliot's spots have come in a slightly strange way with just one at a time popping up about every 12 hours or so, he now has them dotted all over, but luckily still not too bad, but you have to feel sorry for the little man having a pox spot on the end of his willy and also on his tongue. He does look like a very unhealthy and slightly odd dot to dot project, actually it might be fun to take a biro and join all the spots.

I am a great fan of prevention, so a visit to the pharmacist and £15 later he has spent the last 4 days drugged up to the eyeballs. Its particularly fun smothering him in calamine lotion after his bath, the girls have a great thrill that I seem to be painting their brother white for some bizarre reason.

I know pox can be very serious, but I am very glad to be getting through the horrid episodes, no more pox for this house, whoop whoop. Aidan, Alex, Cat and Elliot have all now been poxed up and hopefully now have the immunity to fight of any future pox sneak attacks.

I know that about 10% of people get the pox again, sometimes many times, but I am hanging on to the blind optimism that all of mine now have super immunity and will never face the discomfort and annoyance that the pox brings with it.

So yes it sucks that Elliot is poorly, but thank you pox for getting all my kids infected and sorted at such an early age, in a few days we will say goodbye to the pox forever in our household, its not been hugely nice knowing you Mr Pox, but it certainly is nice to be seeing the back of you.