"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:29:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:34:11 -0700, "Cheri" >
>> > wrote:
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>> >> I don't believe what your doctor said about the shot at all,
>> >> personally...I would get it.
>> >
>> > I got it and mine was free, thanks to Kaiser. If I get shingles,
>> > according to what I've read here - it won't be as bad as it would have
>> > been.
>> >
>> > The chicken pox vaccine came out when I was as a kid. I got chicken
>> > pox and then they vaccinated my sister for it. Her body was chicken
>> > pox free *except* for the bottom of her feet, which were red with door
>> > to door chicken pox. Poor kid, it must have been awful! I remember
>> > rubbing the bottom of her feet with my knuckles because they itched so
>> > much.
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>> I remember the Chicken Pox and they were no fun. My nephew also got them
>> and he is 26 now so I don't think there was a vaccine even then. He had
>> them everywhere and I do mean everywhere!
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> The chicken pox vaccine was most certainly commonly available when he
> was little. Sounds like his parents were stuck on stupid if they
> didn't immunize him. Find out if he was given the DPT vaccine.
> Whooping cough has a miserable sick time and long recovery period.
> This is what it sounds like - he doesn't want to go there.
> http://www.whoopingcough.net/cough-c...chwhooping.wav

No, they're not stupid. He had all of his shots. Angela had whooping
cough. And yes she was vaccinated. The Dr. said they now know that the
shot isn't very effective.