6/30/2006
Good news and bad news!
The good news is that I paid for my flights this morning. Daisuke`s bonus arrived and was gone within the space of an hour!! Forking out all that cash made me feel physically sick because despite my best efforts, we don`t have nearly as much saved for this trip as I wanted to have but I figured I will have to plead poverty to my parents when I get home!! My MIL already handed me an envelope of cash which will make things much easier but I suddenly realise how much money we are missing out on by me not working for a month. Without realising it, I have build up quite a nice little income! Oh well, I will just make the most of the break and look forward to earning again when I come back! I am starting to make lists and plans and as a result have started to feel bubbles of excitement in my tummy!
Now for the bad news... ALL the kids in my Aira class have chicken pox!!! This doesn`t worry me so much because I am quite happy to take Joey along and get him infected because we touch down in the UK in two weeks so by the time he has symptoms, we will be surrounded by people who can help me out. The problem is that in the day before we fly I have plans to go to Fukuoka to stay with my friend illahee and hang out with her and her family. Now I am pretty sure she wouldn`t have too much of a problem with her son picking up the virus but she is currently very pregnant and I wouldn't want the virus to get passed onto her unborn baby.
As I was typing the above illahee called me to let me know that she had actually had chicken pox when she was younger so the chances of there being any problems if Joey were contagious were close to zero. However, I had already cancelled my class, just in case! I will definitely take J next week though because that would mean he wouldn`t become infectious until after we arrive in the UK and it would be perfect timing! I can`t believe how much I have learnt about chicken pox in the past few weeks! I know far too much and I know alot of people think I am crazy trying to infect my child with the virus "with perfect timing" but I would rather he had it sooner rather than later and this is the best way. Of course there are never any guarantees and I could take him and he might not even pick up the pox!! Stranger things have happened!!!
Ok, all this talk of chicken pox is making me itchy!!
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4 comments:
you're right, it is better to have it earlier rather then later in life. I had it at 18 and it was a very bad case of it and it can be life threatening. I do however wonder at your logic in taking him on a plane while infected and exposing the other passengers....
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It is better to have it as a child and rid your body from being able to get it as an adult where it will turn into Shingles....much harder to deal with.
And I do think it is very dangerous to unborn babies.
He wouldn`t be infectious while we were on the plane. That is another one of the reasons I didn`t take him yesterday because timing wise, it would have made him infectious on the plane and I didn`t think that was fair to the other passanegers. The incubation period of chicken pox is 14-24 days and you are contagious for 1-2 days before the symptoms show. Therefore if I take him on monday and he picks up the virus, he wouldn`t be contagious until we were safely in the UK.
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I purposely exposed my daughter when she was three because I wanted it to be over before school age. Even though she was with the "chicken pox kids" for only an hour and they were past peak for infectiousness (their pox had already started to dry up), she did get it. Then she gave it to the two babysitter boys who hadn't been infected by the original kids. I was so glad she had them, then we didn't have to worry. Of course now they have a vaccine.
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