My dad's mother was a mostly soft-spoken and reticent woman, but I can still remember her talking about what it was like to leave my father, who was three years old, at the quarantine ward at the hospital when he developed polio (he needed more care than could be provided at home and there was the risk of exposure of the rest of the household). She was so glad that he would hopefully never have to do that with his children.
Me, I'm still amazed that there's chicken pox vaccine now, as I remember my very dull week of quarantine when I came down with it over a winter vacation all too well.
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Date: 2009-11-01 04:09 pm (UTC)My dad's mother was a mostly soft-spoken and reticent woman, but I can still remember her talking about what it was like to leave my father, who was three years old, at the quarantine ward at the hospital when he developed polio (he needed more care than could be provided at home and there was the risk of exposure of the rest of the household). She was so glad that he would hopefully never have to do that with his children.
Me, I'm still amazed that there's chicken pox vaccine now, as I remember my very dull week of quarantine when I came down with it over a winter vacation all too well.