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  • imvii@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFreedumb
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    2 hours ago

    I have a smallpox scar on the back of my arm and I didn’t even know it was there.

    We got the shots in school and I have faint memories of the Jet Injector. Most scars of people my age are on the side of the arm up near the shoulder. I didn’t have one so for years I assumed I didn’t get the vaccine or my memory of it was wrong.

    Then one day in the shower my girlfriend pointed it out. It’s around the backside of the arm and hard to see in a mirror - but it’s there.

    I feel kind of special having it as it isn’t that common these days.


  • imvii@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFreedumb
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    I’m the same age. I never knew anyone who had measles EXCEPT older people who told stories of it. I never knew anyone who had it whilst I knew them.

    On the flip side, we attended chickenpox parties to get infected. Of course this was before the vaccination and knowing more about Shingles. All the folklore knew was one you get chickenpox, you never get it again and it’s better to have it as a child than adult.