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Tell us an unusual thing that people don't know about you
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My grandmother got measles at 2years old and ended up deaf from it. People don't understand many diseases don't hurt people anymore because of vaccines. (Not wanting to start a convo about that.)
But you don't stop taking your high blood pressure med because your BP is normal. You dont stop your epilepsy meds because you are seizure free. You don't stop your insulin because your blood sugar is good.
Measles. Scarlet fever. TB. Mumps. People like you (and even me at 70) help keep history alive, this important stuff people want to forget.
Measles outbreak in TX. Some children can end up deaf for life. Its a big deal. Thank you.
Have you thought of writing or even recording a memoir? Even if each chapter is about one thing unrelated to the previous chapters. Like where were you when JFK, MLK, RFK was shot? These incidents are rapidly getting lost.
I would love to go into nursing homes an listen to their stories and write them down. Hmm. I thinking about a volunteer job. Maybe its time for that?
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People are ending up "dead for life" in West Texas right now. And, from a disease that was, for all intents and purposes, eradicated from the States at the turn of this century. Stupidity kills.
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In addition to surviving measles, I also had scarlet fever when I was 10 years old. So that would have been 80 years ago. There were no medications then. I remember being put into an ambulance and was taken to a special hospital that was for people with communicable diseases. I remained there in seclusion until the disease had run its course. Of course I could have easily died. My present doctor feels that surviving these life threatening diseases has made my immune system stronger and may be a contributing factor to why I am doing so well at such an advanced age.