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51. A girl down the block from me had it

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 03:46 PM

Feb 2020

Years after the vaccinations were available. They were religious nuts and didn't believe in vaccinations, but they did believe in doctors or she wouldn't have survived. She was in an iron lung for a while, then in braces when she came back to regular school.

She graduated valedictorian of our class and went to medical school.

Her Mom got in trouble for leading prayers before every class even after the Supreme Court decision that took prayer out of school. She actually had sent a Jehovah's Witness student to the office for staying in the hall while she led prayers, the she was upset that she was suspended and almost lost her job over the uproar. She always blamed it on the student.

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Regarding the coronavirus, do any of you folks remember being [View all] rzemanfl Feb 2020 OP

I don't remember being confined to the yard, Lindsay Feb 2020 #1

I remember no movies, no drinking fountains as well. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #8

I couldn't play in the ditch after a rain. Luz Feb 2020 #10

I used to come home so muddy my mother would spray me with a hose. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #12

Same for me. Got the vaccine, both Salk Polly Hennessey Feb 2020 #37

Born in 1953, I was lucky. PCIntern Feb 2020 #2

I don't remember being confined to our yard Mossfern Feb 2020 #3

Same here wryter2000 Feb 2020 #27

I do remember parents being worried. MineralMan Feb 2020 #4

I'm pretty sure I got it when I was in second grade. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #11

My brother-in-law had a mild case of polio MineralMan Feb 2020 #13

I was in the Chicago suburbs. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #15

Not sugar cubes? Ms. Toad Feb 2020 #16

Nope. The original Salk vaccine was a shot. MineralMan Feb 2020 #17

Looks like the oral vaccine was about 6 years after the injection. Ms. Toad Feb 2020 #18

Thanks for that info. MineralMan Feb 2020 #21

You should have gotten it in 1955, because that's when the first mass vaccinations were. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #19

Small farming town in California. MineralMan Feb 2020 #20

Interesting. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #39

I don't think so. MineralMan Feb 2020 #40

I likewise think you'd remember. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #79

That would have been when I was in second grade so it fits my recollection. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #29

My Wife's Sister died from it. Turbineguy Feb 2020 #5

as recent as 12 years ago we had local quarantine do to whooping cough beachbumbob Feb 2020 #6

Too young JustAnotherGen Feb 2020 #7

I was at summer camp in Maine. They closed the camp and kept us in and Raven Feb 2020 #9

Just before my memory - Ms. Toad Feb 2020 #14

No, but I do remember getting a booster vaccine before I started kindergarten. GoCubsGo Feb 2020 #22

Yup - oral vaccine in sugar-water in a tiny Dixie cup jpak Feb 2020 #33

Vaccine on a sugar cube shanti Feb 2020 #52

Topics like this remind me of the huge age skew on here Amishman Feb 2020 #23

I was a child of the 80's as well, my parents each had dewsgirl Feb 2020 #34

The vaccine scar Mossfern Feb 2020 #41

Oh..i forgot. dewsgirl Feb 2020 #50

We called it the "human test" jberryhill Feb 2020 #54

It looks so painful.😳 Did It hurt? I remember always thinking dewsgirl Feb 2020 #63

No, the injury was not directly from the injection jberryhill Feb 2020 #66

Thank you, they were always a big source of anxiety when dewsgirl Feb 2020 #68

Imagining all of those Marching Dimes was what got me jberryhill Feb 2020 #75

LoL🤣 dewsgirl Feb 2020 #76

That's from a smallpox vaccine. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #89

Yep. That's where this sub thread went jberryhill Mar 2020 #90

I typed it and forgot to post it for an hour or so and missed the posts in between. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #92

So, as long as we're here jberryhill Mar 2020 #93

Thanks jberry! I'm hanging in. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #94

I remember lining up for sugar cubes Ohiogal Feb 2020 #24

I 'remember the sugar cubes. blueinredohio Feb 2020 #31

Yep, I remember that. MicaelS Feb 2020 #58

Or dentists complaining about sugar cubes jberryhill Feb 2020 #67

In the early 1950s Silver Swan Feb 2020 #25

Oh, yes, I remember being restricted. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #26

Gotta tell you a story. I was a terrible ballplayer as a kid. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #28

I was bad at most sports. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #38

Not after he told me it was bad form to throw out a kid in braces at home plate rzemanfl Feb 2020 #43

Yeah, you have to give credit to the kid for playing while wearing braces. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #45

First person I thought of when I saw rzemanfl Feb 2020 #46

I can see that. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #48

My uncle got it shanti Feb 2020 #53

My uncle also contracted polio peggysue2 Feb 2020 #72

It was a terrible disease. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #73

Yes. We had a kid down the block that caught it actually. Was in Independence MO back then... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #30

A girl down the block from me had it csziggy Feb 2020 #51

Yes. We weren't allowed to swim anymore in the State Park with the Cypress tree pond. Walleye Feb 2020 #32

I was born in 1948. murielm99 Feb 2020 #35

I remember the fear well and the people with aftereffects. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #36

Lived in a very rural area - very isolated zeusdogmom Feb 2020 #42

The fancy girls got them on their upper thighs (not at school of course). rzemanfl Feb 2020 #44

I got mine shanti Feb 2020 #57

Without permission I trust. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #59

Mother shanti Feb 2020 #60

I was suggesting a few people might have had permission to see the scar. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #61

Oh you! shanti Feb 2020 #62

My mother had the pediatrician give mine in the upper thigh. Oddly I didn't scar. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #91

Swimming instructor?😄 zeusdogmom Feb 2020 #80

Merely an observant heterosexual male. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #83

Yep. No yard confinement but also no swimming, COLGATE4 Feb 2020 #47

Could not run through the sprinkler and must take naps. Sneederbunk Feb 2020 #77

Oh hell, yes! I had forgotten about having to take naps!!!!!! COLGATE4 Feb 2020 #86

I remember a friend of mine had Polio, we were not allowed to visit him. redstatebluegirl Feb 2020 #49

Born in '49. Had both the Salk and Sabin vaccines. Three kids WheelWalker Feb 2020 #55

Nope, just missed it - but DO remember Hong Kong Flu quarantines jberryhill Feb 2020 #56

I don't remember it but I was born in 1965 eilen Feb 2020 #64

I remember standing in line for an oral dose of the polio vaccine. nt tblue37 Feb 2020 #65

I was strictly forbidden to play in the swamp Brother Buzz Feb 2020 #69

I remember all sorts of speculation as to what caused it. gibraltar72 Feb 2020 #70

From Wikipedia- rzemanfl Feb 2020 #71

I was born in '56 Raftergirl Feb 2020 #74

My wife had it KatyMan Feb 2020 #78

Good for her. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #82

I was born (1973) well after the polio scares The Genealogist Feb 2020 #81

Yep. In the late 50's. The kid across the street Greybnk48 Feb 2020 #84

I was in the Chicago suburbs. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #85

I had one of the early vaccines but my cousin got polio. She was 2 years older. Liberty Belle Mar 2020 #87

The absolutely worse was a Texas summer with no SWIMMIMG. efhmc Mar 2020 #88