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@thisismarilynb

I just turned 90 and yes, I am doing just fine, thank you. However 80 years ago, when I was 10 years old, I contracted Scarlet Fever. In today's world with its proliferation of drugs, it seems hard to believe that there was nothing then. I remember being taken by an ambulance to a hospital for infectious diseases. We were kept in isolation. That was the only treatment. I was there for almost a month, but I survived.

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Thanks for your comment.

I was told that my maternal grandfather (who was born in Guatemala ~1896) had scarlet fever as a child. It left him with a weakened heart. He died in his mid-40s.

Those kinds of diseases were serious business!