[Magdalen] Shingles

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Thankfully mine too were mild!

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I was an AIDS volunteer, one of our dear friends had died just as I
> was diagnosed with a very mild case of shingles and was advised to stay
> away from people with compromised immune systems. I went to the funeral but
> stayed well away from the others -- until they came over and embraced me
> and wouldn't hear of me staying apart.  Their memory is eternal.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 7/11/2016 12:28 AM, Grace Cangialosi 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
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda