> 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

When I was a kid, my sisters got everything available. That included measels, chicken pox, whooping cough, mumps. I either didn't get it our had a very light case. My mother used to say, "Howard has lots of natural immunity."

Yeah, right. One year, after I had taught about seven years, the kids gave me an end-of-school present. Mumps. I was 31 and I got to spend the first two weeks of summer lay-off on the couch. My sisters had them many years before and my kids had them the year before I did, so the doctor said I would probably have a light case after all that exposure. "Natural immunity," he said. Well, the worst of it was the new fishing rod that I got the day my jaws began to hurt. I flopped there on the couch for two weeks looking at that new rod standing in the corner.
My wife would tell people, "Howard has the mumps," and then she would grin with them about it.
Howard