Bastard chicken pox.

[Herja]

Bloody hell. Today the kids and I went swimming; both in fine spirits, not a spot to be seen. It had been going around school, but we seemed to have escaped scott free! No new cases in school for over a week. No. This evening DS has a couple of obvious spots and more appearing by the hour.

The pool was rammed due to half term and poor weather. I feel so guilty. I have immunocompromised friends, I had chicken pox myself that lasted a month, including my eyeballs, vagina, anus and throat aged 9. I have still never felt as ill as I did that month; I know every reason people should take it seriously, yet I have unwittingly passed it to everyone .

DD has been vaccinated. I was saving to vaccinate DS too. Sods fucking law.

You weren't to know so don't beat yourself up about it. Just remember - no nurofen!

Just as a bonus, all my childcare for next week is now fucked as it was by friends with babies... so much for uni! And their dad will be fuming - I don't know how yet, but I am confident that this will somehow be my fault and he will kick off. Fabulous.

Thank you! Just saw about nurofen on the nhs page for it.

Don't feel bad, it's very contagious for a few days before the spots come out so it's impossible not to expose other people to it. The main thing is you don't go out now you know they have it. Do you know anyone whose already cp to look after your DC?

This isn't your fault OP. You had absolutely no way of knowing unless up knew you had been in contact with it.

Stock up, antihistamine, virasoothe, not calamine lotion. Bicarb soda for the bath and painkillers not anti inflammatory.

I'm sorry man, it's always sucky timing.

I did know, but the contact was 2 weeks ago in his class, so thought we were safe now. Sadly no one to help, everyone who's had it has babies and everyone else a weak immune system. Never mind. I see me making very full use of internet ordering in the next week!

You can't tell. They can come out very quickly from nowhere. Don't blame yourself.

Ds went into his ballet class (30 minutes) completely fine (I'd just put his leotard on before he went in, so would have seen) came out, and when he took the leotard off he must have had 20 spots. By the time we were home twenty minutes later he was covered head to toe.

It's better to get it young. I had it at university. I have no idea who from as no one I knew had either chickenpox or shingles over the time that I could have caught it from. It must have been a passing in the street-which is very odd if you think of the times I didn't get it, when dsis had it, when bf had it, all the times it went round school... It's an odd one.

I’d have still looked after your kids with a baby- especially if I had older kids too. So maybe don’t worry too much. And fuck the dad- well, tell him to get to fuck. As if chickenpox is something you can be in control of.
Hope your wee one is okay with it- not everyone gets a bad dose and it’s better to get it over with in childhood.

I would have looked after them still when my children were babies, they are 3 and 1.5 now and I keep hoping they will catch it sooner rather than later.

We’ve got chicken pox here too! The incubation period is 1-2 weeks before a spot appears and kids are most contagious just before the spots appear - you didn’t know so stop beating yourself up.