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Our little 3yo has chicken pox, poor little fellow. He looked so sad all covered in spots, that I shed a tear! He seems less bothered about it than me though - he insisted we phone his granny, so he could tell her (excitedly) "E got SPOTS!!!" (E is what he says for "I", like a true industrialist {glows w/pride}) Anyway it reminded me ov childhood ilnesses I had - all that crappy stuff, staying off school, lucozade in crackly cellophane wrapper etc etc blah blah. Gimme yr memories of childhood illness, fux0rz, and make 'em GOOD.

Me, I remember those weird little films they showed on BBC2 when SHOCK TV wasn't on all day - "Trade test transmissions" - if you left the test card on after "Play School", they'd usually show one after an hour. In one people went down to hell through the mouth of the de\/il! PH34R!!! When older I remember being really ill w/glandular fever, & see-ing hallucinations ov LUMINOUS FERRETS gamboling at the bottom of my bed! Mostly I remember it being really, really boring. Perhaps you will remember more interesting things than me.

― Norman Phay, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was very little, I went on holiday to Spain with my family but I had (I think) German measles. It meant I wasn't allowed in the sun and so I had to spend two weeks sitting in a hotel room with the curtains closed, whilst my brother and sister went to the beach. I can't really remember what I did during those two weeks though I do remember breaking a jar of Marmite and being very upset because they didn't sell it where we were staying (two weeks stuck in a hotel room WITH NO MARMITE! Worst holiday EVER!)

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel comforted that someone else hallucinated with glandular fever too. I had cartoon pictures of Reeves and Mortimer floating around my light shade and waving at me. What with that and the luminous ferrets I am starting to think glandular fever has a sense of humour.

― Anna, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was little (like, 6 or something) my brother and I had pink- eye. My mother had to wipe a wet washcloth over our eyes each morning so that we could get them open. I remember it being quite frightening to wake up and have my eyelids stuck shut.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I had glandular fever too. I missed about 6 weeks of school. Apparently it's the kissing disease (ie you get it from kissing....right) so "ahahahahaahah who have you been kissing you little rascal you" was the standard response of relations and whoever happened to be around.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

please explain what pink-eye is so i can finally get all those South Park jokes!!

once when i was about 12 i had some kind of fluey fever thing - i worried my mum by insisting that i had to get out of bed, get dressed and go and meet the dolphin in the Mr Men house under the sea. it seemed ever so urgent at the time!

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

pink eye = conjunctivitis

― RickyT, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I had tonsilitis three times as a child. I just remember being all high and floaty and not being able to talk and it's great to hallucinate as a child.

I always thought that it was the NHS that refused to take them out, even though they kept getting infected, and developped a lifelong fear of doctors and especially the NHS because of this.

It wasn't until last year that my mum informed me that the NHS had wanted to take my tonsils out the first time they got infected, but that it was HER that refused to have them removed. I was so angry and upset that I went down and registered with the NHS the very next day. And now I face waiting lists like the rest of the UK, I can be angry with them for their own incompetence, rather than my mum's.

I had measles and chicken pox as well. One of these was at the same time as tonsilitis, I can't remember which. I just remember being called The Spotty Barker cause I was covered with spots and couldn't stop coughin.

― kate, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I once had tonsilitis six times in one year and they still refused to take them out on the grounds I was 18 and too old. I've never really understood that reasoning.

― Anna, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

when my mum was a wee nipper she went into hospital for something or the other. many years later she has something wrog with her throat and went to the doc, suspecting tonsilitis. the doc told her that she didn't have any tonsils! she was most shocked - turns out that when she'd been in hospital all those years before they'd whipped her tonsils out as well as whatever else they were doing - without anyone's knowledge or consent!

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The slow slip-slide of the trumpets, like those fifties movies, channel 4 and lucozade by yr bed, gastro-entruitis, 12pm, school's in and yr bed sheets are dripping wet - and its not Abbot & Costello - it's some James Stewart you've never heard of, it's Double Indemnity, it's that guy who played the gangsters, with the baby faces, James Cagney? Yeh, it's him, and you shuffle inside yr bed, cos it's either this or This Morning, and the cliches would be 'smoke', 'jazz', 'dark alleys', Bogarde, Bogart, 'cigarillos', and there's a stakey, a knife, a rush and a push, down... down, and the beau, they were belles then though, the beau, at her knees, she weeps, and the anti- hero dies.

Credits.

The End.

MetroGoldwynMayer.

― david h, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I always feel sooo left out of these threads....

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Why Pete? Are you Superman?

― Archel, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ptee is Unbreakable. I don't know if he has the poncho though.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No poncho and I have never been ill.

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Norman i hope yr little nipper gets better soon!

― katie, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Katie, I think whipping them out while they were operating in the area must have been common - they did it to me too. They were operating on my nose when I was about 12 or 13. My parents had to sign the consent, but they didn't bother reading it because they completely trusted doctors haha. I found out a few weeks later when at a checkup I said I had a sore throat and the doc said something about expecting that and I asked why.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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