> I've never heard of adults catching Chicken Pox when they've already been exposed to it in childhood. But my entire family -- or most of them -- seemed to have experienced it again recently. We picked it up at my youngest nephew's birthday party. We gave him gifts; he returned the favour by giving us pox. It was sort of like getting a booster shot, except my immunization package included laryngitis and the sorest throat evar. And a lot of phlegm *cough cough ahaack*. Children are a true joy, the blessing of God; they are the gift that keeps on giving. You get your fair share of all their diseases that they bring home. :-) Who'd'a thunk it?
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> Wolfspirit

The adult version of Chicken Pox is called Shingles. M-W.com defines it as "an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves that is associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and is caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox -- called also herpes zoster"

When my mom told me she might have had shingles, I didn't believe her. I didn't think people got shingles anymore. Besides, it's a silly name for a sickness. Like Rickets. Or Scurvy.

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-Faux "Faux Pox" Pas