[Magdalen] [Magdale

[Ginga Wilder]

I had measles, rubella, and mumps as a child.  My sisters had some of that,
with my youngest sister having scarlet fever...we were quarantined, along
with our school classes and the 5th grade class my mother taught, for two
weeks.  This was actually a prank played by the county health physician who
thought it was funny.  Yep, small Southern town in the 1950s.  I don't
remember having strep as a child.  I do remember having 3 polio vaccine
injections in the long lines down the school halls.

Our youngest son came down with chicken pox, caught in kindergarten.  He
passed that along to his sister.  Within the incubation period, our older
son developed appendicitis and had surgery for that.  He was quarantined in
hospital for the duration and got pneumonia, so we were there for a week.
On the way home, he broke out in hundreds of chicken pox all over the
incision.  Misery for all of them, but especially my son Jay..

Thank God for vaccines.  I believe schools could disallow students who have
not been vaccinated on a proper schedule.  Perhaps private schools for
those who don't...I think it is that serious that we turn the trend not to
vaccinate around.  This mindset does seem trendy to me.

My $0.02.
Ginga

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:30 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.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
>