[Magdalen] [Magdale

[Michael Bishop]

My brother and I alternated with mumps - first he had it on one side of 
the face, then as he was due to go back to school, I had it on one side. 
When I was clear, he developed it on the other side of his face. Again 
as he was cleared, I developed it on the other side.. As a result he 
missed his schooling from Christmas to Easter as pupils were excluded 
from school if the disease was in the household. I missed no schooling 
as I had not started.
I am one of those who has never had any sort of vaccination. Because of 
health problems in my early years my parents were firmly medically 
advised that I should not be vaccinated. Like most children of the time, 
we had virtually all the childish diseases: measles, german measles, 
chicken pox, etc.

God bless

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Michael Bishop
rev at michaelbishop.name

On 01/06/2019 8:46 pm, Scott Knitter wrote:
> I remember how mumps felt, with the swollen glands and, IIRC, the
> hallucinations. I ran to my parents in the middle of the night to get away
> from someone who was shouting at me.
>
> I think we had a year like that where we got them all: chicken pox,
> measles, mumps, maybe the flu.
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 2:30 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking now that I may have gotten gamma globulin when my brothers had
>> rubella (German measles). Hard to remember now, as we were all sick so much
>> from just after Christmas through May of that year. We started with the
>> measles, which almost every kid in the neighborhood got at a Christmas
>> party we attended where somebody must have been incubating them. I have
>> recently read that measles does much more than just make you sick as
>> hell...it damages your immune system for a good little while, which would
>> explain us being so sick that year. We had, in succession, measles,
>> rubella, strep throat (very severe cases), and mumps. And of course, we
>> didn't all come down sick at once; it was a case of one of us getting sick,
>> then another 5 days to a week later, then the third, and so forth, in a
>> round robin that must have completely exhausted my poor mother. If nothing
>> else makes her a candidate for sainthood, that year certainly should have!
>>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:34 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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