saffronhare

Thanks, honey. She doesn't seem to be itching much at this point, thank the gods. She is, however, quite irritable. Which will be Big Fun. :)

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lulumai.livejournal.com

well, that is a blessing. hopefully you can avoid that exciting aspect of the whole thing... well... speedy recovery to you and yours and may everyone remain minimally spotted with even less itching...

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Oh, dear. A helpful hint: in the absence of Aveeno oatmeal bath goop, plain old baking baking soda in the water can help with the itching. Also Tylenol--I had a doctor tell me once that an itch is a low-grade pain, so it helps with that.

Good luck, and don't worry over exposure for us. We're good. :-)

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I would panic, but Sir dynamo has already been immunized and we have both had it. Does Shawnee Mission still quarintine kids till a week after they are spot free, or was that my school's hang up?

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When my kids had it, day care required them to be out a minimum of 10 days. This is Teh Suck for working parents (and I don't exactly want to bring my work home, eh?). This was even more fun since the YCP had not only the vaccination but also the actual disease 5 times. Apparently he got just enough immunity from the vaccination to get a couple of spots each time. The last time he got a whopping case so I no longer worry when he's exposed.

Happy, non-itchy vibes for the Little Princess. Hopefully she'll feel better soon.

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Yeah, that's the kind of time I was worried about. (sigh) Thankfully, my work is a bit easier to manage at home -- IF she'll let me concentrate on it.

Still, if I can shift gears mentally, it'll be lots easier on both of us. Really...I'm not the one who's sick, you know? And this is much less stressful than worrying over pneumonia. :)

I have a feeling we'll be making a lot of jell-o this week.

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I'm really not sure. All three of the girls have been immunized, but Kira just isn't old enough to have had both the initial vaccine AND the booster.

This is going to be a Mommy Merit Badge, I bet. I'll let you know as I learn more.

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Well, crap. I hope the older princessen's immunizations hold. Hugs to you all! (Easy to say when one is a few thousand miles from the germs...)

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We have been properly shooted and boosted. Once she is past day three (I have a tendancy to get a light case of the pox when exposed, but only if I'm exposed in the first three days of contagion...this makes no sense to me, but my doc seems to think she knows all about it, so I will defer to her years of med school and practice)Casa Ventura is an available option for days you need to make an office presence. I can only in good faith offer my services Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays since I am not the adult in charge the other two days of the week. Bring us your cranky and spotted (we do offer shuttle pick up and drop off, but the shuttle can not arrive before 9:30am, drop off times are wide open after 12:30pm). I am home earlier than 9:30am so she can be dropped off as early as 6am (I just have son-school and light job duties until 9am that would make leaving house before then difficult). Let me know when to schedule you in.

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Daddy-man is arranging for a couple of half-days off this week, so I'll be able to get in some desk time. Fortunately, I can mostly do my job with my laptop and access to the Internet.

Finally formulating a plan that I can share with my writers about how things will go for the next week or so. School policy says she's got to stay home from school until the last breakouts are dried out and scabbed over, AND anything on her face or hands is "pretty darn well healed." I'm figuring that's at least this full week and possibly into next week.

Making my list for the drugstore now too. We've been doing lots of little activities around the house to keep little hands busy (much easier to keep her occupied than simply telling her not to itch). Later, we might play "connect the dots" with some calamine lotion and q-tips. :)

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One thing to keep in mind is that we are finding that even with vaccination, children are getting CP. The good news is, that they tend to be less symptomatic if they do develop disease.

Question: Are you taking her to the Dr? The only reason I ask is that CP is a reportable disease in KS.

Hope everything is well... good vibes to you *all*

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The doctor has asked us NOT to come in, but to stay home instead. Her preschool says she's the first case of the school year -- yay!

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I would encourage you to encourage your doctor to report it (we have some trouble tracking CP because it is a newly reportable thing and a lot of Drs., understandably, don't want kids coming into their office infectious) but only if you feel comfortable doing so. Feel free to tell them you have a friend at the HD who works in Disease Containment and asked that they report this even without lab confrimation. If they need a report form, I will be happy to send them one... :-)

Just doing my job ya'll. :-) XOXOXO

Love and hugs!

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Yeah, see my response above. What good is a vaccine if the poor kid is going to come down with the disease *5* times? Yes, he was less symptomatic, which meant he could get it again and again. It also meant one of us had to be out of work for the full time period each time he got the dang thing. I prefer it the way the OCP did it; one whopping case and it was over.

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As I understand it, the YCP has some pretty extreme reactions to lots of things as part of his life. (smile) So I don't know if his experience -- sucky as it was, and you have my sympathies -- is a "center of the bell curve" kind of thing.

We'll just have to wait and see how well the vaccine serves the other siblings in the household. Fiona has had both the vaccine and the booster required these days; Rowan, I think, has just had the vaccine. (fingers crossed)

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I think that's why they require the booster now. I don't recall them requiring it when he first did it. I have heard of several people that have somewhat similar stories
the YCP did have a pretty wimpy immune system when he was younger... can't tell it now though.

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Most of it too is that you can *die* from CP. That is what most vaccines are for now, is to reduce the symptoms and *keep you from dying* since a lot of deadly diseases are *mostly* in check from herd immunity and such (even though we are seeing reccurences in disease due in part, at least in my theory, to the Baby Boomers kids and their kids who chose not to vaccinate *for a variety of reasons* chief among which is they don't *feel* it is necessary because there aren't instances of the disease in America. The problem is, a lot of these disease are still in countries that have people that come here *AND INFECT US!*

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I was trying very hard to not get on my soap box and talk about how doctors are promising 'prevention' when all that they can really claim is 'reduction'. But that gets me going on label claims and vaccine trade talk and would run off with

saffronhare's entry...
I know that I tend to forget that not that many decades ago people did die from what we consider to be minor inconvenient diseases now. It's a good reminder.

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Sorry. Yeah. Soapboxed I did... I feel inspired though... hehehehehe

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Ugh, no fun! Hopefully it's a mild case but enough so she won't have to go through this again. May you and the rest of your family go unscathed.

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Thank you! Some folks have been joking that we should host a "chicken pox" party for her friends...just get them all exposed and have it overwith, if they're going to contract it even after their vaccine. Not sure if I'm in favor of that, really. But it's funny to contemplate. :)

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I had a coworker suggest that they would expose their 2 year old to my the OCP when she had it back in McPherson. Since that Mommy stayed home, they hoped to get it out of the way before the boy went to school. She ended up nixing the idea, though.

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