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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    One of the kids has a few spots that look suspiciously chicken poxy :|  Had to happen eventually I suppose.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited February 2023
    Oh gosh @wild edges, that doesn't sound good! Have you had it yourself?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I had some kind of anti-pox jab when I had shingles about 15 years ago so I should be ok.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited February 2023
    Far better they get it now @wild edges. It's seriously unfunny as an adult. I had it at the age of 41, courtesy of the children, both under five at the time.  Many of my eyelashes never came back, and that was the least of the problems.
    The health visitor informed me that an older chap had just died from it and was horrified at the casual dismissal I'd had from a doctor at A&E. I had searing pain all down my face and he said it was my teeth. She advised older daughter had her pre school jags [that's why I was seeing her]  in two bouts, rather than all at once, as the virus would still be present. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Totally agree with @Fairygirl … I had it as an adult and was really ill … I also had mumps as an adult … I was sooo ill I had three home visits from the GP … an otherwise fit chap in a nearby village died of it that summer. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I got mumps too @Dovefromabove  as an adult.  So painful.

    @wild edges   Aren't the pox "over" once they erupt on the skin?  Just that they are so contagious when they are seepy!!   :s
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I had mumps as a child and I still remember being in bed with it. Funny how your mind works eh?  I also know someone who had it as an adult. Not funny.
    All these diseases can be hideous as an adult. Fortunately, we have vaccines, which many of the recent clowns [Covid]  seem to forget are preventing us from serious illnesses or death. Perhaps they should all be made to read the info....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I thought I’d do a bit of cross stitch as a change from knitting and ordered myself a kit to make a pretty needle case … I’m sure the holes in the canvas are smaller than they used to be and the wool finer … and whoever thought of a design with cream wool on a cream fabric … anyone got any magnifying glasses they don’t need ?!?!?! 🤓😵‍💫😖

    My mother had a bed cover made by her ancestors, started in 1818 and finished in 1881.  Apparently they spun the yarn themselves, wove the basic cover and then embroidered the entire thing in white. Cream on cream should be a piece of cake by comparison. :)
     I only saw it a couple of times as it was passed to a cousin who was supposedly keeping all the family items together.  Unfortunately, when the cousin died there was no sign of it.  A bit of detective work discovered she had given it to a local museum without reference to the rest of the family.  I wouldn't have minded so much if the museum hadn't now closed down.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    That was a bitter blow @KT53 The sentimental value must have been immense
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Is there any way of tracking down folk who were involved with the museum @KT53 ?... there ought to be records in the county archives if it was  run properly ... and then you could trace what had happened to the things in the museum ... in most cases they're passed to another museum.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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