Reply #53: Shingles is the pits all right [View All]

[slackmaster]

When I was a toddler the preferred "vaccination" method for chicken pox was to send your kids over to play with the neighbors' kids who had the disease.

I got lucky and had just three small lesions.

My brother, several years later, had a moderate case of chicken pox but came down with post-chicken pox encephalitis. He's lucky he avoided permanent neurological damage.