Apr
30
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All about the pumpkin..,
Being a mom....,
In health... and during sick times...
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Please click on (more…) for a bigger photo of this one. Though they don’t look very scary, I know they could be very itchy 
I will freely admit this : I have no idea how a person contacted chicken pox other than being in contact with another person who is sick with chicken pox. Well, when in question, just search online. And so I did. I searched on Wiki, and I found out a few interesting informations about chicken pox
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- Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that spreads from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person’s coughing or sneezing. Touching the fluid from a chickenpox blister can also spread the disease. A person with chickenpox is contagious from 1-2 days before the rash appears until all blisters have formed scabs. This may take 5-10 days. It takes from 10-21 days after contact with an infected person for someone to develop chickenpox.
- The chickenpox lesions (blisters) start as a 2–4 mm red papule which develops an irregular outline (rose petal). A thin-walled, clear vesicle (dew drop) develops on top of the area of redness. This “dew drop on a rose petal” lesion is very characteristic for chickenpox. After about 8–12 hours the fluid in the vesicle gets cloudy and the vesicle breaks leaving a crust. The fluid is highly contagious, but once the lesion crusts over, it is not considered contagious.
- The crust usually falls off after 7 days sometimes leaving a crater-like scar. Although one lesion goes through this complete cycle in about 7 days, another hallmark of chickenpox is the fact that new lesions crop up every day for several days. Therefore, it may take about a week until new lesions stop appearing and existing lesions crust over. Children are not sent back to school until all lesions have crusted over.
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Apr
30
Posted under
All about the pumpkin..,
Being a mom....,
In health... and during sick times...
I mentioned earlier on that Tia is sick. Well, she is sick from chicken pox. I had a premonition that this would happen. Well, I had the premonition because we had to visit the in laws, and my brother in-law was just recovering from the thing.
Went to see a doctor about it because when we came back from Singapore, I was the one who’s sick. I was not feverish or anything like that, but I was not feeling well. And I knew that Tia would be the one who is going to get chicken pox, since I already was sick with it when I was younger.
The doctor even said to me that it is better if Tia would get it now when she is younger since scarring would be minimal since children’s skin get better easier. I don’t really remember what else she was saying because the only thing that I remember thinking was, “Oh great. Now I am sick, and I have to take care of a sick baby, too”.
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Apr
30
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Being a mom....,
Pondering...
I would turn 31 this year. I am not sure whether I could still term myself as young adult, or an adult, but as a person, I go through different stages of growth, just like everybody else.
During my earlier years up to my pre-teen years, I did not give my mom that much of a grey hair. I was pretty much the obedient daughter. I would go where she told me to, and stay away from where she say nay.
Then teenage years. I believed that during these time that I was a little bit rebellious. No, I did not do drugs or take alcohol. And no, I did not have different sex partners for different night of the week. I was just plain rebellious, and I was in that phase where I felt that I was right. And Mom was wrong.
I was very demanding of her, and should she say that I was in the wrong, then a verbal fight would ensure.
It must be hard on my Mom because she had to raise me and my sister on my own since my Dad passed away when I was six.
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Apr
29
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Newsflash
I am quite shocked. Saw the news telecast on the telly about the earthquake in Kent moments ago. Around the coastal area of Folkestones and Dover to be exact.
This is an exerp of the news
The magnitude 4.3 tremor struck at 0819 BST and experts said its epicentre was a few miles off the coast in the English Channel……
The Kent incident is the largest recorded in Britain since an earthquake in Dudley in 2002.
British Geological Survey (BGS) seismologist Roger Musson said the tremor was around 4.3 on the Richter scale, with an epicentre 7.5 miles off the Dover coast.
“This is by no means a complete surprise,” he said. “There have been earthquakes in this location before.
“Two of them have been some of the biggest earthquakes ever to affect Britain.
“The first was in 1382 and in 1580 a quake with a magnitude of about six killed two people in London
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