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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Victoria Richards

Voices: My daughter had red spots on her face and they stopped us boarding our plane

Everyone knows about chickenpox – most of us had it when we were kid. So, when my daughter came out in a few spots on a family holiday, I wasn’t all that bothered. It was a “rite of passage”. Right?

We were away for two weeks, after all; lucky enough to be staying with friends in the sunshine after a mammoth 18-hour series of flights to get to Nassau in the Bahamas.

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