bulutong scare!

There is an epidemic of chicken pox in this place.

It all started with our neighbour - the first one to get the virus. I couldn't understand why he didn't leave their house to spare his two kids of the virus. His eldest is 4 and the youngest is months younger than Giann. The father is all well now. But both the kids got the virus. It seems to me though that it doesn't bother them one bit. When I went out of the house for a drive, I saw both kids in the streets - playing! With scabs all over their body. And their parents were just there, watching. Didn't they know that 1. sick children should be resting; 2. they should be confined at home to prevent the spread of the airborne virus. No, they probably don't know. Or just don't care.

Now the eldest daughter of Giann’s maid has the virus as well! And she lives upstairs! Giann’s maid, the other maid and her younger sister are all exposed to her, and they all come down here to play/look after Giann! One thing about chicken pox is sometimes, you already have it but you have no idea that you’re a carrier. Pau and I are now afraid that one of them might spread the virus and infect Giann and me! We’re both very susceptible to chicken pox. Giann’s still very young and I am pregnant. Chicken pox, like any infection, is a big NO to any pregnant woman.

Therefore Pau has decided that both Giann and I leave this place until the outbreak has totally subsided. We’re going to be Mummy Lhai’s refugees for days, weeks even!

Too bad Pau won’t be staying with us. He’s got no place to sleep in our little condo! Heh. We’ll definitely miss him. :( But it’s something we gotta do to make sure Giann and Baby Red won’t get infected by chicken pox. Anyway, Pau’s promised to visit us every day and that while he’s in this house, he won’t leave the room or be in contact with the maids so he won’t get the virus. Then again he keeps on insisting that once you already had chicken pox, you get immune to it. But I read somewhere that you can still get the virus long years after your first infection. So yeah. Better safe than sorry!

I knew it. This place is really not good for us!

xoxo