Measles is making a big comeback

[JoeH]

$tevie wrote:
I remember getting measles as a child. They got in my eyes and I had to lie in bed with patches over my eyes, listening to television in a fever dream. My siblings all got vaccinated -- and since I am so old that doctors still made house calls, I could hear them in the next room fussing and crying, and like an idiot I was feeling smug that I didn't have to get a needle. Duh.

I must be a bit older than you. Had measles at a time when the vaccienwasn't available yet. Same for most of my brothers and sisters. But doctors still made house calls. By the time my youngest sister was born to my stepmother I was 19, the measles and a number of other vaccines were given to all young children, and doctors no longer made house calls.