Since many of you have young children of your own, I thought it would be a good time to share this story with you. Some of you have probably heard it before, but believe me...you do not want to forget about it if your children have not yet had the CHICKEN POX!Many mothers may think that if their children have not had the chicken pox by the time they start to school that it is perfectly okay to allow their children to purposely expose themselves to friends who have the chicken pox. That was my thinking when Windy was in the 1st grade and had not had the dreaded disease. I thought if she would go ahead and get them, then Jonathan would get them before he started school and we would be done with the chicken pox once and for all.
Windy' s best friend at the time lived next door and had the chicken pox. In fact, all three of the children who lived next door had the chicken pox. Now Windy was a very healthy child who never got to go to the doctor except for routine check-ups. She never missed school because she never got sick. When she found out her best friend had the chicken pox, I honestly think she was jealous. She wanted to experience for herself all the fun children must have when they get to stay home from school. All I know is that she wanted to get them really bad. She aske me if she could go play next door and she even told me her plan. "I'm gonna go over there and I'm gonna rub all over Brooke." And that is exactly what she did!
I know, you are thinking, "What kind of mother would let her child go and intentionally expose herself to the chicken pox?" ME!!! I thought..."Okay, it's about time to get this dreaded disease over with!" So, Windy went next door to play. She made sure she rubbed all over Brooke and came home about an hour later. I was sitting in the living room when she came bouncing through the front door as happy as a lark. She went directly to the couch half running and flung herself onto it in an all sprawled out laying position. With a smile from ear to ear, she raised her hands toward Heaven and said with all her might, "CHICKEN POX...COME AND GET ME!" Believe me, THEY DID!
That poor baby had the worst case of the chicken pox that I have ever seen to this day. She was sooooo sick, she felt soooo bad. I went into her room on one of her worst days and found her on her bed sobbing. I asked her what was wrong. She said, "I will NEVER ask for ANYTHING to come and get me again!!!" She probably hasn't to this very day.
Maybe that is why I've heard Windy tell her boys thousands of times, "You don't need EVERYTHING you ask for..."
4 comments:
Yes , I remember all of that. It was no fun at all. Even after she let me get the worst case of chicken pocks known to man, I was only sick maybe one other time I my entire childhood where I had to miss school. For some reason I never wanted to miss school had had some weird obsession with never missing.
I knew that Pocks didn't look right but for the life of me I couldn't remember what I just read! Oh well, if that is my only flaw I guess I am still pretty "Wonderful"
I never heard this story before....that is hilarious! Windy, I am glad you learned your lesson, and aren't you ever so thankful for the chicken pox vaccine?? I thought my mom was mean because I asked her one time if she would let me swim with pirranhas and she said if I wanted to she would let me...I cried all night and didn't think she loved me! But, at least I never had to be faced with that situation...
Aunt Patti, if it makes you feel any better my mom made me purposely get them from John so that she wouldn't have to deal with it. We were all miserable together. Now they have a vaccine for them. Peyton got exposed to them when she was 2 and didn't get them, but she was a carrier and she gave them to her 7 month old sister during her first Christmas. What a great memory for Emily, huh?
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