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[NoelSeven]

Hi bette

It really wasn't all that long ago, I'm sure many of us on this board can remember measles.

I had all three, measles, mumps and rubella, which they used to call the three day measles.  I had them pretty much all in a row, too, which meant I was really sick for several months.  Somewhere along the line, I had chicken pox, too.  Shingles, about 10 years later.

Thank goodness for vaccines!

[traveler]

Just had a measles death in Alaska.

[betteb]

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@NoelSeven wrote:

Hi bette

It really wasn't all that long ago, I'm sure many of us on this board can remember measles.

I had all three, measles, mumps and rubella, which they used to call the three day measles.  I had them pretty much all in a row, too, which meant I was really sick for several months.  Somewhere along the line, I had chicken pox, too.  Shingles, about 10 years later.

Thank goodness for vaccines!

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I never had Mumps. I had Rubella and Chicken Pox, no Shingles yet, thank goodness, and yes, thank goodness for vaccines.

You know, if my memory serves me right, back then, if you even talked about not wanting vaccines, you got treated like a criminal or a communist or something

[NoelSeven]

"Just had a measles death in Alaska."

Oh, no

[betteb]

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@NoelSeven wrote:

"Just had a measles death in Alaska."

Oh, no

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So that's 2 in the US in that last 3 months.

[JustJazzmom]

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@traveler wrote:

Just had a measles death in Alaska.

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TRAVELER, was that the Fairbanks man who had travelled to Mongolia??

So sad indeed.

[NoelSeven]

bette, I don't remember anyone talking anti-vax, this is all new to me.

I think I felt the worst with mumps.  The sides of my face hurt so much.  My grandmother kept the house as dark as possible, I don't remember why.  Evidently mumps can cause deafness and she was really worried about that.  She must have known someone who went deaf from getting mumps

[JustJazzmom]

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@NoelSeven wrote:

bette, I don't remember anyone talking anti-vax, this is all new to me.

I think I felt the worst with mumps.  The sides of my face hurt so much.  My grandmother kept the house as dark as possible, I don't remember why.  Evidently mumps can cause deafness and she was really worried about that.  She must have known someone who went deaf from getting mumps

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I just googled and I knew measles causes light sensitivity or photo phobia (thus the drawn shades./curtains) but mumps also causes photo phobia too. I learned something new.

[NoelSeven]

bette, check out the Jim Carrey update on that line...

[NoelSeven]

Jazzmom said:

"I just googled and I knew measles causes light sensitivity or photo phobia (thus the drawn shades./curtains) but mumps also causes photo phobia too. I learned something new."

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Thanks, JJM!  I think the house was dark for a long time, one right after another.  My grandmother lived with us, we were very close.  She was also very elderly then, but everything she told me about health has turned out to be valuable and true.