So, as some light relief from all of our allergy stresses with our LOs, I thought I would share my funny allergy.
I am allergic to calamine, of any sort, cream or lotion. It's ok to snigger, it is a comedy allergy.
Go back 25 years to when I had Chicken Pox, picture my mother standing me up and practically bathing me in the evil pink liquid, she turns away to get more cotton wool, she turns back and I have gone. She looks down and I am out cold on the floor.
Move ahead 15 years, I am now in the USA, a scuba diving instructor, young, free and obviously invincible and immortal. I get heat rash from some sun lotion (pattern is now emerging) so I buy some calamine thinking it was just a childhood thing or a figment of my poor mother's imagination. Wake up flat on my back on the apartment floor with the bottle of evil pink liquid smashed next to me and a rather large bump on my head from where it hit the coffee table on the way down!
Move ahead to another life when I have a marriage, mortgage and kids. DD now has chicken pox and they now sell the new aqueous calamine cream... surely that is not evil too?
Picture the scene, trying to dab cream on a hot, irritable crying toddler whilst fighting the urge to pass out cold, I get closer and closer to the ground trying to quell the 'whirlies. I am crouched with my head on the lovely cold bathroom floor whilst pathetically holding up a wad cotton wool covered in evil pink cream in the hope I will manage to get a dab onto DD as she runs past every now and then.
It's OK, snigger away. Anyone else have comedy allergies? Come and chat, two days of Peppa Pig, Charlie and Lola, and ITNG are driving me slightly mad. Please come before Barney finishes me off!