Re: Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now IOWA-

I remember that TB test.  When we lived in Newfoundland, I was exposed to
TB and for the longest time the skin test came back positive.  So, I always
had to have a X-ray.  By the time I was in my late 20's, it ceased showing
up.


> [Original Message]
> From: Daryl <pulis@mindspring.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 4/3/2006 7:11:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now IOWA-
>
> I remember "Lockjaw" and being told that I would never be able to eat
again 
> if I didn't get a shot (this from my brother, who was a terrible tease).
>
> I don't remember a patch test for small pox. I remember one for TB,
though. 
> Lots of little prongs with some goo on it. They stuck it onto your arm, 
> rubbed it around, and made everyone come back a few days (week?) later
for a 
> check.
>
> d
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now IOWA-
>
>
> >I think that was it, Daryl. My mother sewed up some midnight blue
curtains 
> >for the windows--we later used those curtains for WWII "blackouts." I
was 
> >in junior high [I think] before I had a patch test and subsequent 
> >vaccination for small pox. And I was quite young when I was immunized
for 
> >tetanus--which had the scary aka "lockjaw"; just the way they said that 
> >made you want to be first in line for a shot! :>)
> >
> > On Apr 3, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Daryl wrote:
> >
> >> Jim,
> >>
> >> Didn't they darken the room for measles because of possible damage to
the 
> >> eyes? I think that's what I remember being told when I wanted to read.
> >>
> >> It's amazing how much polio there was around in the fairly recent
past. 
> >> I remember when they'd close the pool and theaters and such. My
brother 
> >> had polio, but my mother, like yours, insisted that he exercise.
Picking 
> >> up marbles with his toes was one of the exercises I remember. He has a 
> >> bit of a roll to his gait, but otherwise you'd never know.
> >>
> >> I don't remember anyone having Scarlet Fever, but Mumps, 2 kinds of 
> >> measles, chicken pox and whooping cough were pretty common.  I don't 
> >> remember vaccinations for anything but Tetanus and Smallpox when I was 
> >> little. I remember when they introduced the polio vaccine and we had
to 
> >> line up in school to be stuck. The nurse was not gentle!
> >>
> >> I was delighted some years later when they came out with the sugar
cube 
> >> thing- until they showed us a movie about how the vaccine was made (in 
> >> monkey kidneys) . I was young enough (Jr. High or so) to remember that 
> >> movie vividly.
> >>
> >> d
>
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