Lina Shkilko

March 12, 2013

Essay #1, Draft #2

                                      What Can You Expect If YOU Have Chickenpox

Once, in the end of spring, a long time ago, I had unpleasant experience. I was only 10 years old, but I remember everything how it happened. The first of all I started to scratch all my body, all time, and my behavior was noisier than usual. My parents were worry about me and called a doctor. When the doctor came he made a diagnosis that was very common for that time, in my neighborhood, Chickenpox.

He explained that chickenpox is an infection, contagious, unpleasant disease, and explained me, “What I have to expect”.

The worst part was that whole experience, my body was itching. I saw red pimples, which covered my skin and asking me all time to scratch them. I had to be patient and couldn’t touch them, to prevent scars appearance on the pimples place. Sometimes I had a high temperature and felt myself weak and thirsty. All these symptoms together made me mad.

The main treatment of this terrible diseases was everyday process to put special awful green liquid, with called ‘’Brilliant green’’. I looked like a frog, all my pimples, were covered by that liquid and burn. I couldn’t appear anywhere. I was gloomy and sad. My mother did this procedure every evening, before I went to sleep. Furthermore, I had no appetite, sometimes experienced a fever. Majority of the time, as, I noticed, I was in a bad mood and felt weakness.

My doctor strictly gave me recommendation to stay in bed for 3 weeks, take antibiotics and drank a lot of tea and water. I had to take a rest and covered all pimples by brilliant green liquid. My parents had a lot of work with taking me all medicine, feeding me and made a huge quantity of tea and different liquids.

Fortunately, all pimples went away during 3 weeks and I step by step started my recovery. I felt tired couple month after that. Luckily, people can have chickenpox only ones, because, if you had that nightmare once, you will have immunity to this diseases for whole your life.