Mumps??

[massbikebabe]

Had the mumps when I was six...never forget it...sick as a dog I was. Mom did not know and sent us to school, (went to Catholic school), it was during Holy Week and I was so sick I was holding my rosary upside down. Sister Bridget beat the snot out of me for doing that...I was so sick I didn't even care. Have since been re-vaccinated because of nursing school.

Someone here wrote about the Hmong. You need to read the book The Spirit
Moves Me and I Fall Down...fabulous read!!


karen

[bikerz]

Someone here wrote about the Hmong. You need to read the book The Spirit Moves Me and I Fall Down...fabulous read

(small thread drift: I heartily second that recommendation - the author is Anne Fadiman. She also wrote a wonderful book about books and book-lovers called Ex Libris.)

I don't know if I've ever had mumps - I always have to call my mom and ask her questions like that. I've probably asked her 10 times about childhood diseases, and I still can't remember.

(I'm posting like a maniac today - can you tell I don't feel like working? Arggh!)

[bikerchick68]

I've not had the mumps either... and the first case has already been reported here in San Diego. I actually never had ANY of the childhood diseases... until I was 18 and I got chicken pox of all things! I was sick as a dog with that and missed 2 weeks of my senior year... they almost hospitalized me cause the fever wouldn't break... had blisters everywhere... bottom of my feet, roof of my mouth, in my ears... ugh! It was horrible...

I was vaccinated for all this stuff... but... how long is the vaccination good for? How many years? I'm not one of those who will run right out and get another, but curious about this since it's clearly becoming an issue again.

[MomOnBike]

I don't watch TV, so this mumps thing has slipped in under my radar. I think I had them 'way back when, but who knows?

My weekend job is in a long-term acute care hospital. Lotsa immune-compromised patients. If I needed to be worried, Employee Health would let me know.

But what do I know about this sort of thing? I'm the woman who sent her youngest to China during the SARS scare. Kid had a great time and came home healthy, BTW. When she came home, though, the school nurse took her temp daily for a week (two?) - even chasing her down once when she didn't show up on time.

[yellow]

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it was during Holy Week and I was so sick I was holding my rosary upside down. Sister Bridget beat the snot out of me for doing that...I was so sick I didn't even care.

Another one scarred for life by a sister-so-and-so!

I got kicked out of Catholic school. Or rather, I was "asked to leave". Though I can't remember the Sister's name, I remember her face.

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