''It’s a lot worse as an adult!'' ''that’s really bad to have
as adult!'' They told me...
''Very rare at this age…apparently its really bad to have when you’re
older''... if ONE more person tells me this… I might just lose it.
I went to the Dr at the first sign of a strange looking
blister… no actually I went at the 3rd or 4th sign…Got dressed up
and hid what needed to be hidden…
"Dr, I had a fever over the weekend and it just got worse,
went to another Dr. yesterday – who told me to take some painkillers and rest – the fever
should pass… but then I woke up this morning… [insert dramatic music]…with …[slowly
untie big oversized fluffy coat]…[slowly remove scarf from neck - exposing the
constellation of red dots and dashes] … THIS!
Dr Jumps back (I SAW THIS with my own eyes...! (it might have been more
of a giant step backwards though)..!) “this looks like… CHICKEN POX… “ [zoom into Dr’s
face]…dum dum DUUUUM..
Yea…no shit…that’s why I been covered up like a streaker
sitting quietly, minding my own business…''keep your voice down Dr. people freak
out when they hear the word CHI-CKEN –POX”
Then to be told, that
they will have to let the government know if I do have the CPox… EPDIEMIC much??!! Problem is I live in one side of
town and work on the other..well played Chicken Pox…you got the city covered.
So get some blood taken and get ready for a week of DANGER- you
know, because it’s so bad to have this disease as adult. I sit in my car for at
least a good 40min and try and understand WHY, where & HOW I got this
infectiousness…
I’m embarrassed to be in Public (little did I know what lay
ahead).
Went home and into quarantine (my room) where food is
brought to me…
No one told me that as an adult the chicken POX takes a lot
from you EMOTIONALLY… never mind the mental and physical…I look in the mirror
and I have the acne I never had... ... & at 27 its hard to deal with puberty… I am a
monster…red marks popping up everywhere…EVERY _WHERE, some with oozing yellow surfaces
that just want to BURST… some that have burst and are a maroon like scabby
colour… on your chin…on your nose…in your ear, on your eye lid, in the middle
of your eye socket, at both ends of your eyes…
No one tells you they will be in your armpits - no one tells you to shave before day 2
comes along…after day 2 there’s no chance of shaving… or having a really GOOOD shower…
and giving your head a really god scratch and wash.
No tells you they’re gonna pop up …there….
And IN your MOUTH! On the back of your legs, all over your
back neck on your SCALP! I haven’t worn
a bra for 5 days! So in short – I have white-head zits all over your face,
hairy armpits, legs and could do with a real good head scratch. I feel like a GODESS!
As a child your body helps you forget and move on… as a
child you’re not so developed to really be able to FEEL the pox…really get in touch with it.
Your mum look s after you – and you don’t question…how could you – there is always jelly
and custard and blackcurrant flavoured antihistamine syrup.
You have a LOT of friends that want to play
with you and come over (every kid’s parent wants them to come play - more than ever)
mum looks after you and you hardly know you’re sick because you’re just…NOT an
adult.
When you’re an adult with the Pox of the chicken… NO ONE…wants
to play…you have a plague… you LOOK
infectious…you scare people…you CANNOT go outside (in public- because a) – you look
like s*&^ and b)- can't do that to society – someone else already got ME
in this mess!!
SO, NO ONE wants to play – and they probably run away…the
mirror is not my friend…you feel sick when you see yourself – you feel
EXTREMELY sorry for yourself – the antihistamine doesn't taste like
blackcurrant or strawberries…IF YOU HAVE ANTIHISTAMINE! You feel like a drug addict
at the amount of PAIN KILLERS you drink… you try not get your heart rate up
because it’s ‘dangerous’ at your old age…there
is...NO jelly..NO custard… and no refuge.
You can’t sleep on your left side because you have painful
itchy swollen bits on your lefts side of the body… but you can’t sleep on the
right side…because you have them all over the right side of your head &
face…you try sleeping on you back… but…alas…
you opt to sleep on the right side of your body with your head turned the
complete other way so that you sleep on the left side of you head…hmm…comfort.
2 painkillers and your in lala land. Apparently a stiff neck is symptom of the
chicken pox… it is NOW!
Yes, chicken pox is bad as an adult…not because your body is
in danger but just because it is so humiliating… thank goodness for the DOG- he
feels sorry for me and hasn't left my side… (probably because he saw how scary
my face got! ) he’s like poor human…look at yourself!
So if anyone asks WHY it is so bad to have Chicken Pox as an
Adult…that is why… the sheer beauty of the chicken pox that no one tells you
about…
...there we go Dr Google… that’s what you are missing.
