So for the past couple of weeks, chicken pox has infiltrated my home! It started with my youngest. She only just turned 3 and I am yet to put her into a nursery, so only God knows where she got it from. I took her to the doctors and he said on a scale of 1 to 10, hers is as mild as a 2, so I shouldn't bother getting calamine lotion or anything like that. If she is a little itchy, I should buy some piriton for the itch and give her calpol for the temperature. Well, as God will have it, it didn't get worse and she was soon on the mend. Her chicken pox lasted no more than a week.
Well, the problem with chicken pox for me is, when one child has it, all my children will get it one after the other. My doctor already told me to expect it and be happy. He has a natural way of calming me down. He advised me to look at it as a regular normal spot, it will come, it will scab over and then it will disappear. There is nothing more to it other than the fact that it itches. He said my kids are at the perfect age to get it and it's a lot better they get it now, than be at risk of getting it as an adult. Apparently, once upon a time, parents use to throw "chicken pox parties" for kids so all the children can get exposed and infected by the child that already has it. When I asked about the immunisations held at private doctors practices, he advised that the best immunisation for chicken pox is actually getting the chicken pox as a young child because it lasts a week and they are not in danger of getting it again.
Suffice to say, my second and first baby caught it and we just took it in our stride and handled it as it came. I must say my second baby (4year old) had it a bit worse as it covered her whole body and hair and she was so itchy with a very high temperature but we thank God she is a lot better.
That's my testimony!
So girls, April 2015 was the month you ALL caught the chicken pox. You were 7 (almost 8), 4 and 3 respectively.
Be Inspired
xoxo
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