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You know it's going to be a weird day, when you have to send a kid to the school nurse because he has an itchy rash, and you find out it's chicken pox...and he's had the rash now for a few days....*sigh*
 
Oh no! I hope everyone else has been vaccinated, including you!
 
*sigh*

Can't remember having them....I've been vaccinated though..On calling mom, her response was.."I'm sure you've had them...can't remember when...but I'm sure you probably had them...."

:P
 
Oh, no!

I'm glad you've been vaccinated. Have all the kids been vaccinated, too? I bet the other moms are upset.
 
OK...maybe I should not have thought this to be so funny (I was not thinking of the other kids or parents)...but then again I am the one that exposed my kids to their great-grandmother that had shingles just so they could get chicken pox.
You know...here, kids, take a sip out of this glass...OOOPS this is the one that grandma used.:yippee:
 
I know how you feel, it will be ok. I remember having the chicken pox. Cool baths to reduce the fever. I still have scars. It will be ok , It will be fine, just breathe, sigh.
 
Wow, I thought it was required for all kids to have the Chicken Pox vaccine before going to school. I know my kids were. For me, I got to enjoy having chicken pox at about the age of 5, since there was no vaccine then. But I then gave it to my brothers and sister, who all got it a LOT worse than me, so I really can't complain.
 
Depending on the state you live in, you can get religious, philosophical or medical exemptions. They like to make you think vaccines are mandatory.
I think they are only mandatory if you are in the military and if your child attends a private school (they can make their own rules, which may make them mandatory).
 
Mandatory seems strange, what about human rights?

I got the chicken pox twice! I got them, gave them to my sister who got it after mine already went away and had another terrible out break of them after. They were everywhere. Inside my mouth and nose and around my eyes. Plus I had the fever so bad it put me in the hospital.
 
actually...

the parent of the student has not contacted the school yet to say "yes it was definitely chicken pox" so none of the other kids parents have been notified...

and the kid with the pox had been vaccinated..

today he and his sister are mysteriously missing from class....
 
I know...there are pros and cons to both sides of the issue. I just wish they could make vaccines safer.
 
I agree totally. I have spoken to my Dr.s about it, and they know how I feel about vacinations, but I know that when I get the flu that it is deadly for me. So I guess it is to thine own self (and children) be true. You have to do what you think is right. I wouldn't dare tell anybody else to do.
 
When one of us got chicken pox as a kid, me and some of my cousins got looped together so we'd all get it at the same time lol.

It was a firm belief that if you get it over and done with quite young, then it's not so bad. I have a LOT of cousins and my big brother about the same age as me.

My little brother didn't get it until he was 6. He'd been in hospital for months after being hit by a car and then got chicken pox a day or so before he was due to leave. Another week on the infectious diseases ward lol. My dad caught it too, and my mum said that he was worse behaved than my little brother with it!
 
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