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Originally Posted by mamacat

How is he doing?

He's pretty miserable. Yesterday was the worst so far. He woke up two nights ago and threw up. He felt better afterwards. He's been taking benadryl at night and I think that helps. We've done an oatmeal bath, but he said the itching was worse while actually in the bath, though better afterwards. We've done baking soda dissolved in water and dabbed that all over and let dry. That helps. I've given him Tylenol a couple of times just for pain relief and fever relief, though were mostly letting his fever do it's work.

He missed Disciple Now this weekend which is a local youth retreat where they stay at host homes and do community service with a group of kids their age. I'm upset for him that he had to miss it. He's already missed one baseball game and will probably miss all three this coming week. I think missing stuff is worse than dealing with the chicken pox.

He's been binge watching his favorite tv show, Psych. So there is some upside to it all. I might get him his favorite ice cream or something today.

And I think he feels hideous with pox all over his face.

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This morning his throat is hurting so bad it's hard to swallow.

But no new spots on the section of his back that we circled with Sharpie marker.