It's 3 years today since I moved to Canada!
To celebrate this event, I'm feeling ropey. I am coming down with a nasty cold, bit of a fever and stuffy head / nose, and I'm exhausted from too little sleep. No matter what time I go to bed, I don't get to sleep until around 1.30am because the baby goes absolutely nutty for an hour or so around that time, and I need to visit the loo every 5 minutes as a result. Then on top of that, the last 3 nights I've been woken by poor D who's suffering with his Chicken Pox..... last night at 3.30am he fell out of bed and hurt himself so we were awake for a while as a result. And G has been going into work early this week so there's no chance of a lie-in for me.
Poor D is now absolutely covered from head to toe in red spots. Some of them have crusted over which is good, it means they're on their way out, but others are appearing by the minute. It's very strange, Chicken Pox, a bizarre illness covering your body in horrid sores.... and largely harmless other than the itching! I'm having a hard time pursuading D not to scratch, I'm the scratch police at the moment and constantly berating him for doing so. Which of course he can't understand, it itches! He won't get into the Aveeno Oatmeal Bath either which really helps with the itching, because he says it's like bathing in porridge and you're not supposed to bathe in porridge.
Posted by katie at June 17, 2004 11:34 AMI'd imagine many of your friends back 'ome are sad you came here but there are a bunch of us who are happy you came here!
Poor D - can't blame him for not wanting to bathe in porridge. Actually, if he wanted nothing to do with porridge at all, I wouldn't blame him. Maybe he won't have the same hangup about baking soda baths.
Posted by: Steve at June 17, 2004 07:18 PM