A Pox Be Upon You

Bobby has the chicken pox. Or not.

You'd think it would be obvious one way or the other, but he either has relatively few chicken pox, or a lot of bug bites. Our pediatrician said it could certainly be an unusual presentation of chicken pox, and said we should assume that's what it is (as he was ushering us out a side door so we wouldn't germ up any of his other patients). Alternatively, Bobby's frequent trips to his favorite new playground in the Arboretum are resulting in a few more friends than we realized, the kind who climb inside his shirt and nibble away.

One way or the other, we're researching bug spray and will have to have him tested for chicken pox antibodies at his next check-up (the one in three weeks, when he would have gotten the chicken pox vaccine. What timing this boy has!).

Mom