The Itchy And Scratchy Show

No I’m not talking about the weird cartoon in the Simpsons I’m talking about myself (Jeff… yes I haven’t blogged for a while but I’ve been rather busying with other online endavours).

Anyway, why the Itchy and Scratchy?  Well.  I have the Chicken Pox.  No joke.   Seriously, I’m 30 with the chicken pox.  So to answer some questions…

Have you ever had Chicken Pox Before?   Yes

I thought you couldn’t get the chicken pox twice?  That’s what I thought.

It all started on Saturday night. We were watching the Canucks game and I was really hot and started to get a lot of itchy spots on me.  Then Sunday went and played squash and had a TON of spots on me… We thought it was some sort of heat activated rash thing and that it was because we changed our laundry detergent.  Anyway, after not being able to sleep for a couple of night I went and saw the doc.  Turns out she’s seen 3 people that week (all around my age) who have had the chicken pox before with the chicken pox.  Crazy huh!

Funny story

When I was a kid I had the chicken pox BAD (like everywhere bad and worse then most kids).  Anyway, while I had the chicken pox I can remember lying on the couch yelling to my parents, “I wanna go to school”… my theory being that if I went back to school the itching would be gone.

I told the doctor who diagnosed me with this case of the pox and she laughed and said, “and you just never stopped going to school?”

Anyway, this time I don’t really need to go back to school or work but I wouldn’t mind the scratching to go away.  So if you haven’t had the chicken pox (and don’t want them) I would avoid seeing me for the next 2 weeks or so.