I got chicken pox when I was 32. From a child I babysat. I went home and by the following evening, my 3 & 4 yr old children and myself had a fever. Luckily, the kids' dad had chicken pox in childhood - because, by the second day, I was non functional. Fever, red all over, in and out of reality. I'm 60 now. My daughter has one scar - funnily enough - on her ribcage. My son has a group of 5 scars on his forehead, which isn't good by any measure.I ended up with so many scars, it's difficult to find a clear area of skin.
Beauty is only skin deep. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
HPV is another nasty one. They have a vaccine for it now, thank goodness, and Will, I'm sure your kids have gotten or will get it. I apparently had an infection in my 20s. At 63 it gave me cancer on one tonsil and the base of my tongue, Stage 4 before it was diagnosed nearly 4 years ago. (I had chemo and radiation and I'm fine -- HPV-related oral cancer has a 95% cure rate, thank goodness.) It causes cervical cancer in women.
The other fascinating thing about chicken pox is that the virus that causes the disease lies dormant in your body after causing the outbreak of chicken pox. Many years later, some (but not all) of the folks who had chicken pox contract shingles from the same virus! Talk about the long con! Of course, now we have a shingles vaccine--something everyone who contracted chicken pox as a kid should get as an adult.
Long story, apologies in advance.
I got chicken pox when I was 32. From a child I babysat. I went home and by the following evening, my 3 & 4 yr old children and myself had a fever. Luckily, the kids' dad had chicken pox in childhood - because, by the second day, I was non functional. Fever, red all over, in and out of reality. I'm 60 now. My daughter has one scar - funnily enough - on her ribcage. My son has a group of 5 scars on his forehead, which isn't good by any measure.I ended up with so many scars, it's difficult to find a clear area of skin.
Beauty is only skin deep. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
HPV is another nasty one. They have a vaccine for it now, thank goodness, and Will, I'm sure your kids have gotten or will get it. I apparently had an infection in my 20s. At 63 it gave me cancer on one tonsil and the base of my tongue, Stage 4 before it was diagnosed nearly 4 years ago. (I had chemo and radiation and I'm fine -- HPV-related oral cancer has a 95% cure rate, thank goodness.) It causes cervical cancer in women.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/basic_info/hpv_oropharyngeal.htm
The other fascinating thing about chicken pox is that the virus that causes the disease lies dormant in your body after causing the outbreak of chicken pox. Many years later, some (but not all) of the folks who had chicken pox contract shingles from the same virus! Talk about the long con! Of course, now we have a shingles vaccine--something everyone who contracted chicken pox as a kid should get as an adult.
Yup. Had CP at 10, shingles at around 60. No fun.
I have heard about this! Something else to look forward to, yay.