One of my ice-breaking questions as I'm checking out the kids, along with asking if they've been feeling ok, is to ask "is anyone at home covered all over with red spots or bumps??" Generally they laugh and say "Naaah", but today, one little boy surprised me with "Well, my little brother has chicken pox!" Which, of course, is what I'm searching for with the spots and bumps question, but which, in this day of a Varicella vaccine, rarely is answered yes.
So, what followed was two nurses trying to calculate exposure and transmission periods from an uncertain little boy's guess as to when those bumps had first appeared...and then Andy on the phone with the Camp Physician, making sure we weren't going to end up with multiple little ones covered with bumps at camp this week. He was cleared to stay, ran off to play, and then followed the talk from the old folks about how, in the olden days, we all just got the chicken pox and got over it... and I swore I'd never talk like my mother...
-Nurse Mary Jane Amick assisted with camper check-in on Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral Domain Reading Camp
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