[Magdalen] Shingles

[Christopher Hart]

That's what happened to me as a young teen. Dad had shingles. I was
exposed. I got the chickenpox. Then my brother got it from me.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My understanding is that you can't catch shingles from another person; it's
> the result of having the virus in your body from a bout with chicken pox.
> OTOH, a person who hasn't been vaccinated against chicken pox can catch it
> from a person with shingles.  When I had shingles, I was careful not to
> visit one set of grandchildren, because they had not had the chickenpox
> vaccine.
>
> They subsequently caught chicken pox from a child who was also not
> vaccinated, and three of the four of them were extremely sick. Now, of
> course, they will all be at risk for shingles at some ponit in their
> lives...
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I caught it from my father who had shingles.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 7/10/2016 9:34:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > cervus51 at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > I got  the shingles vaccine a couple or 3 years ago. My insurance
> covered
> > > it
> > > as I  was already over 60 years of age.  TBTG.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > >
> > > Mine was covered by insurance, too.
> > >
> > > I don't know when the chickenpox vaccinations started.  I can still
> > recall
> > > getting chickenpox, and I recall making my own diagnosis (a little
> > > dermatologist in the making?), walking up to the study hall monitor
> > > "Sit down and shut up!" Muller, and telling her I had chickenpox and
> > > needed to head home.  I was a junior in high school  (1954).   I
> believe
> > > the isolation was a week then.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David S.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Christopher Hart
> >
> > List Mail Address: cervus51 at gmail.com
> > Personal Mail: cervus at veritasliberat.net
> > Twitter: @cervus51
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
>
> *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
> Bonhoeffer*
>



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Christopher Hart

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