"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:34:11 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
>> I don't believe what your doctor said about the shot at all,
>> personally...I
>> would get it.
>
> I got it and mine was free, thanks to Kaiser. If I get shingles,
> according to what I've read here - it won't be as bad as it would have
> been.
>
> The chicken pox vaccine came out when I was as a kid. I got chicken
> pox and then they vaccinated my sister for it. Her body was chicken
> pox free *except* for the bottom of her feet, which were red with door
> to door chicken pox. Poor kid, it must have been awful! I remember
> rubbing the bottom of her feet with my knuckles because they itched so
> much.

I remember the Chicken Pox and they were no fun. My nephew also got them
and he is 26 now so I don't think there was a vaccine even then. He had
them everywhere and I do mean everywhere!