Chicken pox means…

This is a sickness which creates panic, anguish pain, itching and scars. Chicken pox =  quarantine, neem leaves, calamine lotion.

This time it was for Manav 3yrs of age. The immediate question-  was he not vaccinated. Ofcourse not, coz last year hen some poxy looking blisters had shown up , we took him to the doctor and it was  detected to be  C pox.  That led us to vaccinate Pranav 6yrs old , who is now a ‘proud carrier’ for the C pox. He got it in a mild form and gifted to his lil brother who embraced it full force. It was new for me to see the poxes sprout upon Manav in bunches. The first lot I saw was on his tummy , I apply the calamine, in few secs  I see a new bunch of them on his arms. I apply the calamine there. Then as I am closing the bottle I can sees a ton of  them popping out on his face one after the other. It was an amazing sight!

It is interesting to recollect that for me this was an illness associated with final exams in the month of April – May and also eating chicken. But now I witness this in the month of November and December.When I got C pox,  I was  studying in Std VII, Achachen and mummy had been to Bombay  and my sister and me were at home. One of our neighbors invited us for dinner as parents were away. They had made some good chicken which I nicely whacked. The next day was English II final paper, having come back from exam , could see some bumps on the body. As mummy had come that morning, showed it to her and of course she could tell it was chicken pox and the rest is the same story as any chicken pox victim. But the good thing was no more exams for Std VII, got promotion based on earlier term  marks.

Now for Manav, as there was lot of carpentry work going on at home, Sunday lunch got delayed. He happily was playing at our neighbors house.Being Sunday they had some special cutlets and also chicken. Manav seems to have had good  lunch there and on Monday morning there comes out all the poxes! History repeats itself.

Though the incubation for chicken pox is about 10-14 days, it is comical a co-incidence that chicken somewhere was closely involved in letting these poxes come out. 😉