Well, my brother is also around while I had chicken pox but the true companion I had during my”difficult” times is my computer.  I communicate to other people through it and entertained me through video streaming when I was bored to my wits since my brother was not around all the time.   And then I realized that I need to upgrade the RAM of my PC for it takes a while to download things and to open some programs.  And so I am in a lookout for a cheap computer memory card (am referring to RAM Cards of course) to add to the 1gig of RAM that I already have.  Hopefully that will improve the speed of my PC.