I had German Measles, and Chickenpox when I was young.

I also got immunized (on my leg). I once asked my mother when I was 10 or so "what is this mark on my leg", and she said "Oh that's your immuniztion shot". I said 'they give it on the leg??" and she said "At that time that's what they did".

Then they came along with some kind of oral polio vaccine. (years later). I have no idea which vaccine i got for what because no one recorded this 60 years ago. And if they did, no one gave me a little yellow card like my son had.

Alan said to the nurse (during his infusion).

I have all these 20,000 antibodies in me, I can't catch anything" We all laughed.

Oh, his foot ulcer is only doing one drop a day, and even that is light. Nothing last night. I put bacitracin, put clean gauze, wrap it up, and he lays on the couch.

So if he walks for any length of time, the thing will bleed, if he stays off of his foot, the thing will not bleed.

I predict we shall go to the ortho next thursday as instructed, bringing the new pair of shoes. They will then adjust the oft loading part of it.

Then it will be another wait and see time.

I'm getting good at this stuff.

Melody

The mark/scar on your leg is probably when they immunized you for smallpox. I have one on my thigh. I believe I was five at the time and it hurt:( Otherwise, I had chicken pox, mumps, hard measles and german measles. They tested me when I was pregnant to see if I had indeed had german measles. I knew I had but they wanted to be certain.

My children were all vaccinated for measles, mumps, smallpox, etc. However, they had quit giving the smallpox vaccine just before my last child was born. I never liked that and I wished that they would have still been giving it. They all had chicken pox which the older one was sicker with it because the age was twelve, and the middle one not so sick cause the age was ten, and the young one not sick at all cause the age was six. I believe it's best to have chicken pox when you are young as it's not so bad and that proved true. And that's what the experts say.

Of course, if you have had chicken pox then you can get shingles sometime in your life. That isn't fun either. Now, of course, they have a vaccine for chicken pox as well which all their kids have had. I've read that that isn't 100% effective either and children have gotten chicken pox later. And their kids have been vaccinated for all the rest.

It is a requirement that a student must be immunized in order to attend school. However, some parents have found ways around it for whatever reason. I'm wondering if these parents themselves were immunized and so never had any of these diseases. Some of them can be quite deadly. Kind of a catch 22 I think:(

Smallpox?? Really??

There's no one to ask but wow, I never knew this.

Thanks for the info.

I gather parents are scared stiff of the link between immunizations and autism. Especially when Jenny McCarthy goes on the Oprah Show and blasts the pharmaceutical companies about what is ACTUALLY IN the immunizations.

I guess we really will never know.

Kitt - Catch 22 is a perfect way to describe it. Danged if you do, danged if you don't.

Years ago while I was in nursing school I had to do a research paper. I chose immunizations for childhood diseases - pros and cons. Even after doing the research that I had, I still questioned it with my kids. I think any parent would. However, because of this paper I did, I knew better and of course got my kids immunized.

I can understand the concern that parents have. However, the long term effect of not getting my kids immunized was worse than what, statistically, could happen with the shot. Life threatening pneumonia or severe brain inflammation was not something I wanted my kids to ever go through.

With quite a few cases occurring in California and Arizona it brings another concern as many people come through the borders from Texas all the way to California. There are a lot of illegals working in those areas who I am sure have not been immunized thereby, spreading the disease. As a result, guess where some of our tax dollars are going to go. And all those little newborns whose immune systems are not mature enough to receive the immunizations and yet, the measles is worse for these little guys as well as adults.

But as far as the school situation is, one year they would not let one of my DDs register because she didn't have one of her immunizations (Tdap booster at 14). She had a Dr. appt the following week for her school physical as well as for any shots that she needed. Still, they would not proceed with registration. They really gave me a hard time about it.

So, what documented proof would one have to have in order to register their child for school without the proper immunizations?

Odd thought about this - One choses to not immunize and yet they clean their homes with toxins that can cause the same thing they were trying to avoid.

Haven't heard this in west MI, Tricia. My PCP still makes me have the MMR and a tetanus shot every 7 years.

AMN - I've had that dang shot 4 times in my life. I was telling my mom once that if I have it one more time I'll probably end up getting the disease itself. LOL. Oh, and in some literature, can't remember which book on MS, it does mention something about measles and MS. Go figure. Since we had the shot so many times is that why we have it?

Not sure how many of you will remember this but back in the 70's they actually re-immunized many of us as they found that during certain periods the shot was not as effective. I can remember us lining up in front of the nurses office waiting to get out shots. I also remember one of my friends not having to get it because of her religion. Man, I so wanted to be a Christian Scientist that day.

I remember when the kids were little having to get the measles shots all over again, including myself. Apparently the one I had wasn't enough and the kids shots from when they were babies wasn't potent enough? Jim couldn't get it at all. It was a scary time worrying if he would get the measles. There was a huge outbreak in the Chicago area.

Heck, Jim has never had the chicken pox either! I ran a Varicella test on him and sure enough, never had them. When the kids came down with chicken pox, Jim had to move out to his mom's.

Here we go again with the measles. :rolleyes:

Is "3 Day Measles" just another name for "German Measles"? I was told I had the 3 Day Measles and later just 1 or 2 Chicken Pox on my butt.

Really? They wont let Jim have it at all. :confused: I better ask his doctor next week about it again. They used to say the same about the flu shot.