OMG hosed

[saffronhare]

Kira is covered in spots today.

I noticed one or two on her face before GC yesterday. But, when I checked the rest of her body, I found nothing and figured they must be kiddie blemishes. Not so.

Covered. In. Spots.

I'm so very sorry to have exposed folks to this, however unwittingly. Please pass the word? Thanks.

In the meantime, since this is the family's first case of chicken pox (as yet uncomfirmed by the doctor), I'll be figuring out what my Mommy Marching Orders are and trying to arrange to get some Actual Work done while at home.

Hard to say if I'll be online a lot to day or not. :)
Later,
N

Comments

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

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.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

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)

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

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.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

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!*

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

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.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

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