The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

Of all the bizarre coincidences! I was at the grocery store today and came across (actually he saw me) the EMT that took me to the ER when I had the kidney stone incident at work all those years ago. He used to live up this way when I lived farther south. Now he lives in the Northeast Kingdom. Turns out he was also laid off in 2013 with the big "rightsizing".

 

[pennyJo1960]

Did it give you the willies ? and lmao not dead yet here should have worded that post better huh

 

[microchick]

Thanks bruce. Yeah, I called the health department when I was diagnosed with shingles and they are the ones that told me about the silent Chicken Pox. Dad had HUGE blisters from his bout of shingles after mom passed so yes I was definitely exposed to the fluid. Just have no memory of being sick with them as a child although I almost died from the 'hard' measles as they used to call them and could have had them piggy back in on that infection. I'd called the health dept to find out how soon I could go back to work with my shingle outbreak......on my butt of all places and YES very unpleasant especially when the neuritis set in. Talk about a pain in the.........

Yeah, last update we got about our friend was that the pneumonia wasn't backing down and he was in and out of consciousness. Doctors couldn't figure it out. He was just too severely injured in his fall and the ongoing health problems he had proved to be too much for the injury he sustained.

I'm thinking his nephew will step up to the plate. So sad. They lost a SIL, a brother and now our friend in about a year and a half.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks bruce. Yeah, I called the health department when I was diagnosed with shingles and they are the ones that told me about the silent Chicken Pox. Dad had HUGE blisters from his bout of shingles after mom passed so yes I was definitely exposed to the fluid. Just have no memory of being sick with them as a child although I almost died from the 'hard' measles as they used to call them and could have had them piggy back in on that infection. I'd called the health dept to find out how soon I could go back to work with my shingle outbreak......on my butt of all places and YES very unpleasant especially when the neuritis set in. Talk about a pain in the.........

Yeah, last update we got about our friend was that the pneumonia wasn't backing down and he was in and out of consciousness. Doctors couldn't figure it out. He was just too severely injured in his fall and the ongoing health problems he had proved to be too much for the injury he sustained.

I'm thinking his nephew will step up to the plate. So sad. They lost a SIL, a brother and now our friend in about a year and a half.

measles resets the immune system

Unfortunately, measles began showing its ugly, red face again in the late 2000s and 2010s. While many of these outbreaks occurred because of infected foreigners coming to the U.S., one large outbreak in 2014 that sickened 383 people was largely due to an unvaccinated group of Amish [source: CDC]. Another outbreak started at Disneyland in California in 2015, possibly due to someone contracting measles overseas; 147 people were sickened [source: NBC News].

The return of measles is concerning enough. What's worse is that in 2015, a study showed people who came down with measles were at risk for getting a raft of other diseases. Their immune systems had developed "amnesia."

https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/immune/measles-reset-immune-system.htm

It is very likely that you did have them close together

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh gee is that why I had measles 4 times

 

[bruceha2000]

Did it give you the willies ? and lmao not dead yet here should have worded that post better huh

Yeah it was kinda creepy hearing voices from the dead!!!
But then it is getting close to Halloween, creepy things happen.

They lost a SIL, a brother and now our friend in about a year and a half.

Oh my, that is just too much to bear!

 

[pennyJo1960]

ohhhhhh those voices are in your imagination

 

[microchick]

Oh gee is that why I had measles 4 times

Penny, you are a hoot!

Yeah bruce and another brother died about 5 years ago. Family has known a lot of pain.

 

[pennyJo1960]

That is tough we all see it as siblings age it is so tough to see others face it

 

[1muttsfan]

My poor aunt had shingles twice, once in her eye. After watching what she went through the side effects of the vaccine sounds like peanuts. I can't wait to get vaccinated. But my insurance will not cover it until I'm over 60