Seriously!!!!!!!!

So Elliot has the chicken pox at the moment, well let me tell you a story about Sunday.

We had headed down to the New Forest to get Aidan from his Cub camp and could not find anywhere at all to have lunch. It got to about half one and we finally a found a place that could just about squeeze us in.

Lovely place, I really enjoyed my liver and bacon, but about half way through the meal Elliot started to scream like some demented banshee (Just for reference this continued pretty much none stop until about 4pm the next day). Anyway we got Aidan and I quickly realised that Elliot wasn't using his right arm.

My immediate thought was, well I won't say what it was as it involves a very large proportion of swear words, no that's a lie it was all swear words. Well at about 8 months Elliot had pulled out his elbow, it hurt him like you would not believe but the Gp quickly popped it back in for him. Sadly I immediately knew that he had managed this feat yet again.

So off I headed to A and E, two hours after arrival ( and a dose of calpol for him) I decided that the screaming was now going beyond the level that any sane person could be expected to bear. So I headed to ask for more painkillers for him, luckily a lovely Nurse tried to pop his elbow back in, now imagine your hurting elbow being viciously twisted back into place with the full might of an adult behind the twisting, well Elliot's screams matched what you would imagine.

Sadly she couldn't hear the click and he was to tired to play ball, so the only option was to head home and wait to see if he started using it the next day. We get home I spend 3 hours working and a ridiculous amount of time sorting the kids stuff for the next day. Then after a night of no sleep he was clearly in pain still and not using his arm.

Then to add insult to injury I strip him off and find that the two dodgy spots had turned into a full blown case of chicken pox, now surely a pulled elbow and the chicken pox is not a fair combination for any kid to have to cope with.

Luckily we got to see the doc and through the day his arm improved, so it had indeed gone back in, phew, so I guess that at least was some good news.