Is is possible to get psychosomatic Chicken Pox? I think I may have it, I’ve been scratching for days.
Shibs got the pox two weeks ago and right on schedule the three boys got it yesterday. The baby is crucified with spots on his eyelids, lips and all over his head. Ois has a bad patch on his foot but is ok, Osc was flattened. I hope my mother was right about me having it as a kid. Unshaven, sweaty and pox-ridden does not a good business impression make.
And now, back to your dinner.
[tags]Pox, Chicken Pox[/tags]
August 2, 2006 at 8:38 pm
When I was twenty I caught the Pox. My mother, too, said I had them “as a baby”–don’t believe it! They strains these days are not the same. We auld folks are not equiped to handle the new fangled variety sometimes.
Can you say Shingles? Run for the pub and don’t come out til the coast is clear!
August 2, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Yikes, hope ye are all alright. You’d better hope your ma was right, Podchef makes a very good point!
August 2, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Argghhhhhhhhh. Maybe it’s not all in my head. I’ve heard horror stories about shingles. Maybe that isn’t just a zit on my forehead. Time for a business trip I think.
August 2, 2006 at 9:10 pm
If you’re away for business bring a box of oatmeal for the bath. . .and remember not to touch anything you don’t want blisters on or to itch like the devil. . . .
August 3, 2006 at 8:43 am
Oatmeal? What does it do? That sounds like the voice of experience.
BTW, any success on the Ireland tour idea? I’m wayyyyy behind on listening to your podcast (and every other one I subscribe to too) so I didn’t hear the outcome.
August 3, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Oatmeal is supposed to help soothe the skin. Same thing with rubbing a baking soda & water paste over the welts while in the bath–my Outbreak of the Pox happened while I was living in Dun Laogharie, this was the Sandycove cure.
As for the Irish tours–an Idea ahead of its time. I had a few responses, but without launching a major, and costly ad campaign with US foodie publications, I’m not too sure I can ever get it to fly. At about the same time I was trying to get some punters for my excursion, a country woman of yours–Noreen something or other, a bitter rival of fair Dareena–came up with the exact and suspiciously similar plan. I have her itinerary. It looks very ambitious, and a tad idealistic. Nothing like my more laid-back, get to know an area approach. However, the price was right and she had Bord Bia backing, so whose to say. . . .
As for podcast listening. . .I know what you mean. I barely listen to half of the ones I subscribe to and during the summer that even falls away. And now that I’ve been getting into video. . . . http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Podchef
Anyway, go slather the pox ridden kinder with Macrooms and soda and tell them you’re turning them into poxy baps. . . . All the best.
August 4, 2006 at 6:05 am
I guess there are not enough readers of Gourmet magazine who are active members of the blogosphere yet.
Video – wow! Good on ya, great idea, I’ll have a look this morning.
I’m so far behind the curve. I did my first ever podcast yesterday when trying out Evoca (great new site blogged by Tom Raftery).
Turns out I was speaking into the wrong microphone – it was recording from the webcam. And I call myself technical. So somewhere out on Evoca is a mumbled recording of me reading out one of my blog posts for my zero blind readers. Am I even allowed use the phrase “blind readers” without offending someone?
Now for some Odlums and soda.
August 9, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Mother of Jesus! Your poor baby! Spots on his head, eyelids and lips? The poor little thing!
Right, I”m not a parent, so don’t lynch me, but have they all seen the doctor? Should that child not be in a hospital to make sure the pox doesn’t spread into his actual eye? Or is it only the measles that’s dangerous to the eyes?
Either way I hope they’re all alright! And someone said it earlier, but having the chicken pox doesn’t make you immune to the shingles, which is the adult version. So beware! And don’t scratch!
August 10, 2006 at 9:47 am
No need for a doctor with the pox unless their temp goes out of control or they get a bad bacterial infection.
We did get a special anti-histamine for the itch but Fionn too young for it. I did a fair bit of reading on it and no mention of the eyes.
Fionn was also crucified with an agonizing sore throat so couldn’t eat. All are well on the road to recovery now with just a few scabs left.
Looks like I have escaped the damned shingles!