re: #53 retired cynic

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.

I had chicken pox twice, but only relatively mild cases. It has come back to haunt me twice now with cases of the shingles. Both mild but unpleasant and mostly just physically exhausting.