General Discussion

Seriously, that's quite an accomplishment.

I'm old, as in trombone years old, so I had all those diseases as a child. I was a third of six, so I -- we -- got everything. The good thing is getting permanent immunity from all of them. And the only person I ever knew who had any sort of long term effects was my older sister, who had scars on her forehead from chicken pox.

Back then, most moms were stay at home moms. Mine was at the time. Here's another important thing about the vaccines: aside from the fact they are extremely effective, the prevalence of stay at home moms meant the moms didn't have to scramble to find someone to care for their sick child.

I had what I consider the good fortune of being a stay at home mom myself, and I loved it. But I've always been angry that working moms had so little support outside of their immediate family.