My leukemia's back.

[LittleLakePhil]

And the real kicker is I'm pretty sure I can get them now again....as the transplant wiped all my immunities away...I run away when I hear someone has them......and I can't get the vaccine because it's a live vaccine.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Sounds like stuff in the middle east just took a bad turn.

 

[N F C]

My youngest son got chicken pox twice. When he was a newborn, his older brother had them terribly and the baby just got a couple bumps. Then he got them "for real" when he was about 5. The doc said his birth immunity kept him from getting them full blown the first time he was exposed.

I've always heard it's way worse to get them as an adult, guess you proved that theory Phil. Ouch!

 

[lazy gardener]

My dtr had a couple of lesions when she was 2, then got them again when she was older. Yeah... she was real sick the second time around. Lots of oatmeal baths for her!!!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Yeah it's really not that uncommon.....if you really have a mild case when younger.I had hard measles and three day measles too...never got the mumps...my brother had them bad though.

 

[3goodeggs]

I had one mump.

 

[ronott1]

I had chicken pox and mumps. We were required to get shots for Measles so did not have them. That was in the late 1960s to 1970s.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I had the shots but it was the first year 1964 they weren't effective. Everyone had to get shots again later. Now since my transplant I had to get all those shots again.

 

[donrae]

I had the shots but it was the first year 1964 they weren't effective. Everyone had to get shots again later. Now since my transplant I had to get all those shots again.

Oh, and I'm so looking forward to that, let me tell you

. I have a reaction to the MMR, running a high fever, body aches, etc. I've had that vaccine so many stinking times as a kid, same reaction each time. And the thing is, I still titer negative for rubella, so apparently I had no immunity to it anyway. Now, my old immunities are wiped out and I get to do it all again after my 1 year anniversary. I just wonder if I'll have the same reaction? Or was that my old immune system, and the new system won't react the same? it will be interesting to find out. The flu and pneumonia shots didn't cause any reaction, so that was a good thing.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Yeah I know...been there done that....hopefully you will not react....and then they don't know if you get your host immunities either...I figured by now they would know more than when I did it....but hey I'm alive and I have faith you'll be fine too. Well at least as fine as we can be.