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23/10/2005
World in a pox
Well, Jared’s chicken pox seems to be tapering off, thank goodness! I am the one who forgot his vaccination, not him, so, put the chicken pox oozies on me!!
Erm, actually, I don’t really want to have those blisters on me either and that is why I have just gotten myself VACCINATED today. Under normal circumstance, one would have to suggest bullet mashed in brain cells to get me to the doctor so that the fella can jab me and give me a limp arm for the rest of the day. I know, a jab is nothing compared to child birth, right? if I can go through childbirth without pain relief, I can get a jab, right?
Wrong.
With childbirth, you can’t wait to go through it because if you don’t, you’re going to be in contraction forever! So, you’re hurrying yourself into the labor room and pray that the whole thing is going to be as painless and quick as possible. With a jab, you have a choice, don’t you? Nothing (well, hopefully) will happen to you if you don’t go for the jab. Being an optimistic person, I believe that I do enough good deeds for the gods to love me. Therefore, I hope and pray that the viruses will spare me, cancer will spare me, HIV, HBA, HAA viruses will all spare me, don’t like me and LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
But the truth is that viruses, bacterias and deadly diseases spares no one! When my brother got the pox, me and my sister didn’t get it…maybe it’s cause we didn’t go around kissing and hugging him all that much – he got it in his TEENS, see? The lack of proximity and physical contact could be a factor to be taken into account, eh? So, I took that into account and thought, hey, maybe luck had NOTHING to do with me not getting the pox earlier when my brother had it.
And then my maid, Yanti, has been telling me horror stories about having blisters in her ears, on her tongue, on her privates, in her hair, on her toes, every single where!! And then I called my sister and my sister said she got herself vaccinated earlier, so, she’s safe. And I went…what in the world am I waiting for?? If I haven’t had the pox before this, chances of me getting the pox is about 99.9%? and did I want to get it at the ripe ole age of 32? Nope.
So, I dragged myself to the doctor and got the jab. Yippee!!
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22/10/2005
Looking for quick laughs??
When you think you have absolutely nothing to do, loads of time to waste and want to giggle over something nonsensical, try visiting www.stupidvideos.com. Yeah, I typed right, it is STUPID VIDEOS dot COM.
My husband is the King of nonsensical stuff, especially adept in looking for stupid things to download and look at online. Whenever I switch on my computer, I am working, whenever he switches on MY computer, he’s downloading something. Says he doesn’t want to download stuff on HIS laptop because there might be viruses or worms or whatever…and my computer?? Duh….men are such sensitive creatures, aren’t they?
Anyway, he found this website called www.stupidvideos.com where you can watch thousands upon thousands of home videos and commercials that makes absolutely no sense at all but they are all quite funny! Have to say that my son, Joshua, enjoyed it a whole lot sharing the same joke with his dad. Jared wasn’t too sure what all that laughing was all about but we were all crowded infront of my computer watching video after video.
The videos did cheer the poor sickly Jared up a bit.
So, if you have absolutely nothing to do, hop on over for a quick lookie.
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21/10/2005
Jared Poxed
I know it’s nothing serious, not like the bird flu or the dreaded dengue fever or anything like that still…chicken pox for a kid Jared’s age is bad enough. I feel responsible for it. For all those times that I thought I did everything within my power to protect my kids from sicknesses and illnesses, diseases and physical problems, here I am….sitting here with head in my hand, shaking my head…. ‘How can you not check?’
Almost every other kid these days have gotten the chicken pox vaccination. Yet another proof that the first child always get the best from their parents, Joshua is vaccinated. And poor second-child Jared is forgotten.
Sad, isn’t it? I forgot, I forgot, I forgot.
Oh, I meant to so many time.
I remember taking him to the doctor one time because Joshua had an eczema outbreak and I took Jared along to get vaccinated, but the doctor told me that Jared had a stomach virus too, so, it’s probably wiser to get the vaccination AFTER he recovers from the tummy trouble.
And then I forgot about it. In fact, I am not even sure if I forgot about it.
Now, Jared is covered with blistered spots, but he’s not really sick or anything. In fact, he’s not even bothered with it at all. He has 4 cousins and brother traipsing all around the house with and I don’t think he even FEELS uncomfortable.
And yet another thing…I called my mom on the phone to ask her if I ever got the chicken pox. Unsure of it, she said that perhaps I HAD the measles but not the chicken pox. So, I am exposed as it is and I might get it. I am hoping against hope that I am naturally immune to the virus. My brother had it and I was exposed. Nothing. My sister got it, still nothing. My nephew got it, nothing. So, I am hoping now that Jared gets it, it will still be the same story….NOTHING.
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