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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you live on the hill?  It's going around everywhere.

Both of my kids have had it. 
 
One just got over it.  She is two.  Had a slight (101) fever on a Saturday and we thought maybe she was coming down with a cold.  Monday afternoon started getting bumps on her hands, bottom and feet.  By Wednesday, they were widespread.  Aside from them being "itchy" she was her normal self, minus some sleep issues at night.  By Friday she was better.   She still has a few blisters on her hands and we are over 10 days out but they are almost all gone (she had a relatively significant amount).

My older one had it - we barely noticed.

My husband had it and we thought he was dying (I kid you not).  He was incredibly ill -  had terrible, terrible blisters and we took him to the urgent care several times because he felt like his feet were on fire.   He got over it in 2-3 days but we still joke 3 years later that was [b]the illness from parenting hell[/b].

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I'm the PP from 10:05, and this is no joke.  I had been told that it was a childhood thing, and the likelihood of us catching it from DD was slim and, if we did, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.  Contrary to that info, just about everyone I know who's had it as an adult has been very sick from it.  Urgent care doctor told DH that his was the worst case he'd ever seen.  I don't remember this even being a "thing" as a child growing up in the 80s.[/quote]

Apparently its prevalence has to do w/ kids not getting chickenpox now or so they theorize. I agree w/ you that it seems chickenpoxesque in the sense that adults don't get it as often, but when they do it's horrible. Our DD and her nannyshare mate got it at the same time when they were 1.5ish and the other dad got it and had bleeding blisters in his throat; had to be hospitalized for hydration w/ an IV because he couldn't eat or drink anything. Kids were sick for like 3 days and my kid didn't get mouth/throat blisters so only real symptoms were from the fever and disappeared when motrin-ed up.[/quote]

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