In my nature, in my blood

[sovay]

And this year for Saint Patrick's Day I got a booster shot, because if I can't drive out the snakes from my local area (and I like snakes, so I wouldn't do that), at least I can avoid getting mumps.

(My last MMR booster was in 1992. I had bloodwork done last week to check whether the immunities were still active. Measles, yes; mumps and rubella, no. Interestingly, the last is still considered of special concern to female-bodied people of childbearing age. Either way, I don't want any.)

It will take about two weeks for my body to build up the necessary antibodies. Remind me not to get mumps before then.

In other news of the Outer Antipodes, derspatchel isn't immune to mumps either. He's getting his shot this afternoon. This is possibly more ridiculous than the fact that he can wear my glasses.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

My mother was in hospital as child (broken shoulder) with a girl in an iron lung. We got our polio shots. With reverence.

Nine

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who is 7 years older than me who had polio as a child and recovered from it, but now has the post polio syndrome that is emerging.

[sovay]

I have a friend who is 7 years older than me who had polio as a child and recovered from it, but now has the post polio syndrome that is emerging.

My father was one of the last generation of children who caught polio before the vaccine in the '50's. He deals with that now, too.