Chickenpox has reared its ugly head at Kiddieland. A child in the 2's class was diagnosed yesterday and now everybody's panicing a little bit. Of my four babies I was concerned mostly for Isabel and Jessa since they haven't been vaccinated and I hate the thought of them getting this uncomfortable illness at such young ages, but beyond that I don't think chickenpox is a big deal.
When I was a child everyone got the chickenpox; it was a rite of passage. Sure, the pox is uncomfortable with all that itching but it wasn't treated like a killer disease until the vaccine came out about 15 years ago, and then it became all the rage to avoid the pox. The vaccine became like a status symbol almost. I remember thinking, Just let your kid get the pox and get it over with. And you know what? Some kids who'd been vaccinated got sick anyway. True, the symptoms weren't as severe as those in the unvaccinated kids, but the idea of a vaccine is to NOT get the disease at all, not even in a milder form. So the rush by so many parents to get their children vaccinated against a nonthreatening disease proved, for some, to be an utter waste of time. And now chickenpox is again among us, whether we like it or not. Welcome back, old friend.
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