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

Think public awareness and prevention? 

I think it would be great to be able to go to my
garden center and get a shot at the same time....

The last time I updated my tetanus shot ( 2 years ago,
hum, I think) it was a major thing. Seems doctors
around here don't just have it on hand or at least
were out of it when I was there and had to come back.
I was shocked!

Donna

--- Betsy Kelson <bkelson@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> HEre in Jefferson COunty Colorado, there is a higher
> than usual incidence of
> Whooping Cough. The county health nurse was visitng
> the garden center,
> wondering if she could set up a booth on Mother's
> Day weekend to encourage
> folks to get whooping, dipthera, and tetanus shots.
> It would only cost $5 so
> I guess it must be serious. However, I was a bit
> concerned about publicity
> for the tetanus shot....garden center...tetanus in
> soil....Mother's DAy
> weekend....terrorists in your soil...gloom and
> doom..don't garden mindset...
> But then again with my sick sense of humor... I
> thought that publicity
> something like GET YOUR MOTHER SHOT FOR MOTHER'S DAY
> 
> 
> Betsy
> 60 degrees at the house today  who whoo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judy Browning" <judylee@lewiston.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 7:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now
> IOWA-
> 
> 
> > My first polio vaccine was scratched into the
> skin, as was the smallpox.
> > That was in the '50s. I was really happy when the
> next polio vaccine was
> on
> > the sugar cube. Now smallpox is so rare, the
> vaccine is riskier than the
> > chance of exposure to the disease. Whooping cough
> & diptheria are the ones
> I
> > don't remember anyone actually having.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 1:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now
> IOWA-
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:53 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was
> now IOWA-
> > >
> > >
> > >> That's what my kids got, Cyndi--the sugar cube.
> I took it, too, but I
> > >> was an adult. Most--maybe all--immunizations
> did not exist when I was a
> > >> little kid. A tyke at my first birthday party
> died of scarlet fever a
> > >> week or so later; I had all those childhood
> diseases, except scarlet
> > >> fever--measles [for some reason they darkened
> the room until the
> > >> fistulas healed], mumps, whooping cough [for
> this, they boiled
> > >> eucalyptus leaves in an old coffee pot in my
> room], and who knows what
> > >> else. My younger brother got polio in the
> late-30s and we were
> > >> quarantined by LA County; my mother [remember,
> she was the daughter of
> a
> > >> homeopath] put more credence in Sister Kinney
> than in iron lungs, so
> she
> > >> forced him to exercise 24/7. He has no trace of
> the affliction  today
> > >> [unless, of course, he can't figure out any
> other way to get out  of
> > >> something he doesn't want to do--then it
> becomes a major "war wound"
> > >> excuse].
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Apr 3, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ
> 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I remember getting the polio vaccine on a
> sugar cube. I never got a
> > >>> smallpox
> > >>> vaccination though, long time ago my mother
> said I got so sick after
> > >>> vaccinations she was afraid to have me get
> that one. I guess it
> > >>> wouldn't
> > >>> provide any protection now anyway.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Cyndi
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
> [o*@hort.net] On
> > >>> Behalf
> > >>> Of Zemuly Sanders
> > >>> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:30 AM
> > >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHATnow IOWA-
> > >>>
> > >>> I remember the polio epidemic, too.  My mother
> was scared to death I
> > >>> would
> > >>> get it.  I was fascinated by the iron lungs.
> > >>> zem
> > >>> ----- Original Message -----
> > >>> From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
> > >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > >>> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:09 AM
> > >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHATnow IOWA-
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> I went through a terrible polio epidemic in
> South Texas when I was
> > >>>> young...closed all public places...my dad had
> a touch but regained
> the
> > >>>> use
> > >>>> of his arm.  When the vaccine came out
> several years later, we were
> > >>>> thrilled to get it.  All such precautions
> have downsides on someone
> > >>>> whose
> > >>>> chemistry is different...we just don't seem
> to be able to accept risk
> > >>>> and
> > >>>> non-blame consequences.  Too many people
> don't remember or know that
> > >>>> many
> > >>>> died of infections before WWII.
> > >
> > >
>
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