so i think chicken pox has struck... to be honest i only remember it from childhood, and i only remember the scabby bit, not the bit leading up to that which is why perhaps i didn't even realise that Stanley had chicken pox?! at first they just looked like insect bits and as they came out pretty much as soon as the hot weather struck i really though that's all they were. in fact i went around telling people they were only insect bits for about 3 days. it was only when my next door neighbour questioned them (she's a more experienced mum and nurse!) that i thought oh dear, perhaps not. this was however after having just been to meet a friend with twins and play in the park. oops, bad mummy. so i managed probably to infect half my town in just a few hours.... i then had to ring round everyone we played with in the last week to tell them the bad news. not fun explaining how silly i'd been not noticing something like that on my child.... how do you really tell though? i think because it co-encided with the heat i put everything down to that. clearly when he had a temperature, i again thought he was just hot. poor child has battled through the pox without a single bit of medicine! tough little mister!
as you can see from these photos i took just before bedtime (hence the no cloth nappy...) he really doesn't seem to have been badly affected by it. he hardly has any spots and the ones that are there are scabbing over nicely. and so far not too many more have come out. just hoping this little bout gives his body the defence it needs from future pox attacks!
ON ANOTHER NOTE: this probably doesn't mean much to you. but i've enjoyed being on the top baby blogs thing. i think i've got some new readers which is nice. (hello!) and so they have re-set the counter on it which is actually good for me to try and get up the ranks a teeny tiny bit before all the blogs with thousands of readers get there ;) so if you could spare a minute and click to vote that'd be great. you don't have to sign up to anything to vote. just two clicks and it's done. top left button. thanks so much i really appreciate it. of course, you only have to vote if you actually like what is here...but i hope you do. daily voting of course please. ok, ok, now i'm pushing it i know.....but hey. you don't ask, you don't get, right?!
