[Magdalen] [Magdale

[Grace Cangialosi]

Our family had a run of diseases when we arrived in Japan. I was 9, and my sister was 2.
A little girl on the ship came down with chicken pox a day or two before we landed in Japan. Two weeks later I came down with them, and my sister two weeks after that. Then, almost immediately, I got measles.
We lived at a hotel that was being run by the Army for R&R for troops  stationed in Korea.
It was on a mountain in Nikko, a ski resort, and the only way you could get down the mountain in winter was by cable car. The nearest Army base was 4 hours away. I was very sick, and they didn’t know what was wrong—no rash yet—so we all took the cable car down and got an Army staff car to take us to the hospital. My mother said that on the way down in the cable car, which was full of school kids, she was horrified to see me breaking out with a rash, and she realized what it was.

The diagnosis was measles, and they gave my sister gamma globulin to try to prevent her from getting it.  It worked, and I don’t think she ever got them.

> On May 31, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was 9 when I had measles. I was as sick as I've ever been before or
> since. I might wish that on my very worst enemy, but never on my kids or
> anyone I love.
> 
>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 8:45 AM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Also human beings (westerners, at least) seem to have a great need to
>> assign blame.
>> It's a sort of slide to the left from Reason, with misapplication of
>> scientific thought.
>> Very Puritanical, if you think about it.
>> It makes us judgmental and litigious and just gets in the way.
>> 
>> I've talked with patients who *insist* that doctors really know how to cure
>> cancer
>> but only make the magical treatment available to a few friends and "elites"
>> (for fear they'll do themselves out of their jobs and careers).
>> 
>> I've said this before, but I remember having measles.
>> I was seven, I think.
>> It was awful.
>> -M
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Friday, May 31, 2019, Don <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> "We just don't know" is hard to accept, and it isn't surprising that
>>> absent certainty about causes people cling to hypotheses about cause that
>>> are unproven or disproven.  At best, autism "treatment" addresses
>>> behavioral manifestations but not the poorly understood autism spectrum
>>> disorders themselves.
>>> 
>>> 
>>