Sorry to hear about th munchkin. Hope she has a happy birthday anyway. You’ve reminded me of my own tale of woe and poor timing.
When I was six, my family went on vacation for two weeks in Hawaii. On the plane, my parents noticed I had some red blotches. You guessed it, I had the chicken pox.
Yay! I spent the first week of the vacation shut up inside under quarantine, itching and scratching. Then my 10-month-old sister caught them from me, and spent the rest of the vacation screaming.
Then my mom broke her foot.
Then there was a tropical storm for the second week of the vacation, so when I could finally go outside again, it was pouring rain.