Friday, June 19, 2009

A rose by any other name...

So, I'm holding out for mosquito bites. Maybe mutant mozzies. Or not even a mosquito, but some weird blow-in insect whose larvae came over in the ballast water of a ship - one of those kind of creatures...

Because otherwise, those little red spots around my ankle, each one resembling 'a dew drop on a rose petal' (how pretty does that sound!), are something else.

Chicken pox :-(

5 comments:

Sean said...

Ouch!! You have the pox???? Bummer?

So it turns out - as Tom U says - you *can* get it if you had it before!!! :-(

Orlaith said...

I know... but there's still hope for the crazy insects, or that maybe it's from those thigh-high boots (Tom G's helpful suggestion).

Anyhoo, I'm scanning myself regularly. Curled up, streaming 'Wonder Woman' - how perfect is that for a Friday afternoon, feeling a little poorly :-)

TomRourke said...

Well if its the insects , then Vitamin B Complex might be in order....then again it has a few side effects that don't make for polite dinner party conversation...

TomRourke said...

... get well soon!

Orlaith said...

Thanks a mil Tom - off to google 'vitamin b side effects' now :-)