Mummascribbles – Chicken pox came for a visit! – Mummascribbles

I’m surprised it took so long to be honest. With Zach being in nursery since he was one, I’ve always expected him to pick up every illness under the sun but until now, it’s only ever been coughs and colds.  There was once that I suspected chicken pox but it just turned out to be a bit of eczema on his legs. So when I noticed a couple of spots on his neck (somewhere he never gets eczema), on Thursday evening when I was getting him ready for bed, I was suddenly on high alert.  

When we woke up on Friday, I checked him straight away – more spots. 

I was pretty certain what we were dealing with at this point but with mum expected an hour or so later, I waited for her opinion. By the time she arrived, more spots had appeared and one of those first ones on his neck that I had spotted the previous night, had blistered. Definite chicken pox. 

And so the fun begun. I was pretty shocked at just how quickly the spots spread. It was evident quite early on that this was going to be quite a bad case. By the time the other half came home from work, they were everywhere. On his face, legs, back, willy. The only places that didn’t have many were his arms and stomach but with more and more appearing, it didn’t take long for the majority of his body to be covered. 

I had gone and bought some PoxClin but trying to get him to let us put it on him was just a nightmare. He was totally freaked out about what was happening to his body. 

Over the weekend he deteriorated a lot. The spots had got into his mouth which was causing him to struggle with eating and drinking. He slept the majority of Sunday and Monday after having a couple of nights of barely any sleep. There was one night that we were in and out of his room all night and the next night when the other half slept on his floor. 

On Monday we got really worried. With a lack of food he had become really weak and looked so so poorly. He was still drinking so I knew he wasn’t dehydrated but he just looked so ill. We managed to get a small amount of food into him but I was really thinking that I was going to have to take him to the doctors. 

Thankfully on Tuesday morning he woke up more sprightly and started managing to eat a bit more. Not much, but enough for us to be a bit less worried. It’s now Wednesday and most of the spots have scabbed over and now he has cabin fever. He is bouncing around the house and screaming with laughter at Justin’s House. He has driven me crazy all day so he’s definitely feeling better – just spotty. 

What I have discovered is that Zach is a terrible patient. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been screamed at because he didn’t want PoxClin on. Or when he didn’t want his temperature taken. And when we started giving him Piriton or tried to bath him! I know he’s been totally freaked out about the illness, especially when he first took his clothes off for a bath and saw the spots all over his body. He has done amazing with the not scratching but it all would have been so much easier if he’d let us help him. 

Now we are over the worst and just waiting for the scabs to fall off. I’m so grateful that the other half was able to work from home through the worst of it – I definitely needed that support there! 

What I’m really frightened of is Oscar getting it. He’s just too little to have something like this but I almost feel like it’s inevitable that it’s going to happen because it’s impossible to keep them away from each other! Fingers crossed the antibodies in my booby milk keep such a horrid illness away from my littlest baby.