re: #50 MsJ

I had German measles as a kid…my temp went to 106 and I was hospitalized, sleeping on a bed of ice for three days. Ice baths thrown in because I wasn’t quite solid yet.

The ice was worse than the incredibly vivid dreams I was having.

I don’t think I ever had Measles itself. I did get a shot as a kid. Didn’t seem to help me not get Rubella.

Yeah, I had both kinds, and chicken pox, before there were vaccines. Had to be in a darkened room, and the worst of all: couldn’t read! I remember it as a miserable time. My mother had already had all of them at least twice, so it must have taken a real gut check for her to nurse my brother and me through them.