Wish upon a pinprick, you whispering, Vincent's.

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I am almost recovered from the chickenpox.

I no longer have the chickenpox virus, so I'm that itchy anymore. I don't have a fever. I'm free of the chicken pox virus. However, obviously while I was convalescing, I was trying to find out everything and anything I could about chicken pox. I couldn't find...

No one really understands the etymology

why it's called chicken pox.

I'd assumed...

Oh, this jumped from chickens to humans.

Nothing to do with that.

There's not definitive answer as to why it's called chicken pox.

One theory is... Because it's called chicken packs. One theory is because it's a pox,

there were much more serious paxes,

like cow packs or smallpox, like really serious diseases.

So if you got chicken packs,

it was like the less serious one, just a little chicken pox.

Or another theory is that the bumps look like chickpeas. What I understand the chicken pox to be now,

haven't dealt with it. So I don't have the virus anymore, I'm not sick, so why am I still unwell?

Because I've, it's, it's like a very, very annoying chicken jumped into my bed and pecked the living fuck out of me for three

days solid. A very aggressive chicken who's seriously interested in my genital region had a good old fucking peck at me

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