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Tell us an unusual thing that people don't know about you
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Mar 14 10:44am | Replies (123)Comment receiving replies
I wonder if it was rheumatic fever. My father-in-law had that and it also left him with a weakened heart. He died at 48. Now we have drugs for everything. Then it was the luck of the draw. In addition, we also had to go through all the so-called childhood diseases, such as measles, chicken pox. whooping cough, etc. because there were no vaccines. Measles is a very serious disease. Now because of modern scientific discoveries kids don't have to go through all of this. So it is very important to get the proper vaccines for your children.
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You are correct. Medicines have come a long way. I did not have rheumatic fever. I do not have heart issues. However, I did survive scarlet fever. Nothing for that either. Now you are given an antibiotic and it is over in about a week. I spent a long time in a hospital for communicable diseases. That was my sole treatment. I was 10 years old.
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You are probably correct that it was rheumatic fever; stories can "evolve" in the re-telling.
I remember my mother expressing her fear of polio. It terrified generations, but thanks to modern medicine is all but forgotten today.