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FakeNoose

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23. Yes we never worried about chickenpox as kids, it's something we all had to go through

Reply to ShazzieB (Reply #22)

Sat Feb 28, 2026, 04:06 PM

6 hrs ago

About the mumps it's a different story. I grew up as the oldest of (eventually) 9 kids in my family. All of us kids got the mumps sooner or later, but my Dad who was born in 1925, never had the mumps as a kid.

So my Dad was at risk whenever one of us kids came home from school with mumps. The symptoms were usually slight fever and swollen neck glands for a few days. But for mature and post-adolescent men, the mumps meant painful swelling in the gonads and possible other complications (even infertility!)

My Dad had to run to the doctor for some kind of vaccine every time one of us kids got sick with mumps.

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