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redfiona99) wrote2015-06-20 09:59 pm
redfiona99) wrote2015-06-20 09:59 pm
I have the skin of a hypochondriac
The rest of me is fine, but my skin occasionally flies off on wild illness-feigning attempts.
The most recent is hysterical chicken pox.
The children of M at work have just had it (they're both fine and post-itchy now) and when he came in he was showing off pictures of them covered in calamine lotion. Because the purpose of being a parent is to come up with pictures that will torment the children when they're 16.
And I know I haven't caught chicken pox, because although re-infection is possible, M hasn't had it, and I haven't had a fever (although the time I had it, I didn't get the fever until after I became horribly spotty). This doesn't prevent my skin from coming up with a couple of spots that look exactly like the first spots I got when I had chicken pox.
So I have a stern word with my reflection and tell my skin to pull itself together. Which, rather worryingly, works. Cue vanishment of said spots. I could really do with not having psychosomatic chicken pox at this time.
The most recent is hysterical chicken pox.
The children of M at work have just had it (they're both fine and post-itchy now) and when he came in he was showing off pictures of them covered in calamine lotion. Because the purpose of being a parent is to come up with pictures that will torment the children when they're 16.
And I know I haven't caught chicken pox, because although re-infection is possible, M hasn't had it, and I haven't had a fever (although the time I had it, I didn't get the fever until after I became horribly spotty). This doesn't prevent my skin from coming up with a couple of spots that look exactly like the first spots I got when I had chicken pox.
So I have a stern word with my reflection and tell my skin to pull itself together. Which, rather worryingly, works. Cue vanishment of said spots. I could really do with not having psychosomatic chicken pox at this time.