Well here we are again, we’ve been graced by god almighty with that fabulous fucking virus. You guessed it… Chicken pox is back for round 2 and my god it’s not taking any prisoners.
For anyone that remembers, Rex picked up chicken pox whilst I was pregnant with River which was such a magical time because chicken pox is actually really dangerous for pregnant women. But we made it though and out the other side which I suspect is what will happen this time. You can read about the drama that shall now be known as chicken pox take 1 here …
https://thezword.food.blog/2023/06/13/the-pox/
Rightio back to the grubby little virus that decided to turn up unannounced again and throw the house into turmoil. Whilst bathing River yesterday I noticed a couple of little red spots about her person dotted around making themselves comfortable. And the second I spotted the little shits I fucking well knew it didn’t I. Bloody chicken pox again!
With no time to lose I made a quick dash to the chemist to pick up some supplies, cotton wool pads and chamomile lotion. Cost me a small fortune mind but not anywhere near soul destroyingly expensive as the nit shampoo I picked up a few weeks ago! I’m just about finically recovering again after buying that bloody stuff but that’s a story for another day.
Anyway supplies bought. Massive tick there, phoned in sick for nursery jobs a gooden. Sadly it’s a Friday and I work Fridays so River was under the very good care of Nanny and Grampy today which I think went okay, she seemed her usual self just presenting a little spotty.
Anyway let’s cut to early evening, time to start winding her down for bed, tea nappy and bed time. I start getting her clothes off ready for jamma time and my goodness me has the little sodding spots spread. And when I say spread I mean all over her face, back, arms and worst of all in her hair all over her head and it’s making her itch a lot. My poor baby looks so uncomfortable so there’s only one thing for it… lather her up in camomile lotion which (touch wood) seems to be calming things down. Well I say calming it’s gone 11pm and she’s still wriggling around her cot grizzling every now and again. She’s on bottle of milk number 3 and not planning on going to sleep any time soon, which I’m not going to lie is a really big inconvenience because I’ve got a very long day at work tomorrow and a really long day out on sunday. But ya know kids come first and it’s a good job I love the bones of her.
Now I was really hoping that would be the end of this story but unfortunately for River and us those pesky fucking spots would keep her up ALL NIGHT LONG and I really do mean all night long. Every half hour or so she’d wake up crying and feeling so uncomfortable. So yeah that’s where we are currently at. Functioning on zero sleep today which as you can imagine is proper shit as I’m working today but having regular updates about little miss spot and how’s she’s getting on.
Upon finishing work and going home River is still sadly screming the house down and nothing atall seems to be soothing her, she’s been lathered up in savlon and camomile lotion and is currently donning one of rexs t shirts to let the skin breathe. The honest truth about this whole situation is I’m moments away from breaking down in sheer desperation of wanting to help her and not knowing what to do and also selfishly on my part wanting to go to fucking sleep: sadly that’s not going to be happening tonight at this rate.
It’s bloody morning again and we had such a broken sleep, I don’t know wether I’m coming or going my eyes are red and sore and I’m so fucking tired. Best of all I’m off to a festival today on about 3 hours sleep so that’s bloody marvelous isn’t it! River seems so much calmer this morning which I’m so happy about. I felt ever so guilty going off to the festival and leaving her but I’d spent a lot of money on the ticket and daddy said he’d be fine looking after her. And I’m really happy to report she was absolutely fine and feeling much better and the scabbing over of the pesky pox has come! So she’s a lot more comfortable now PHEW!!
I’m really glad to report that little miss spot is on the mend and feeling sooooo much better! And we’ve all had a good nights sleep.
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