In sickness and ... in more sickness

February has been an ugly month for us as my family has tried to acquire as many illnesses as possible.  Let me list the ways:

• bad, gunky, snotty colds - all four of us, Casey is still getting over his
• chronic cough - all of us, but Coulson had this nasty hacking sound last weekend that had Casey and I cracking up!
• pink eye - Coulson, me, Charlie (who so generously shared it with my dad)
• severe headaches - Casey
• a stomach bug - me, Chester (oh, that was nasty!)
• skin infections - Charlie
• iritis (maybe)- me, I couldn't drive for a few days (well, I had to drive, but it wasn't a good idea)
• eczema - Coulson

But Charlie takes the cake with this:

Pox Face

Pox Back

Yes, he has the chicken pox!  Although I remember it as a childhood rite of passage, today in the medical community it's kinda rare since there's a vaccine for it - a vaccine that my dr's office didn't have in stock at his one year check-up, so they said, "Oh well, we'll just give it to him at his 18 month check up."  Ha!  That's one less shot he'll need now.  Conveniently these strange chicken-pox-like bumps started to appear a couple days before his 18 month check-up.  So when the Dr saw him and confirmed the pox diagnosis, she invited all the nurses to come in and see this strange disease for themselves, since many had never seen it before.  Then as we left, one of the nurses put a sign on the door that says not to use the room for 3 days.  And she asked me not to let him walk in the halls.  I felt like an untouchable.  I've had to keep him away from the public for the past 6 days and it's been driving me crazy!  I should add cabin fever to the list of illnesses above.

Thankfully, the pox doesn't seem to bother him.  He never itched or scratched at the spots.  He was just a bit extra clingy to me - almost like how Coulson was at this age - on a good day.  But now he's getting better.  The spots are scabbing and he's not contagious anymore, so we're going to the grocery store tomorrow (oh, my life is so exciting!)

I decided that February is the month for us to be sick, and all that sickness will end once March begins.  So we welcome March with open arms!

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