Quarantined

My experience with shots has been excellent over the decades, and I've had many, many , shots. Have never had a reaction from any of them. But as a child, prior to the invention of preventative shots , I had every thing that came down the pike except Polio. so did my sisters.

The big double front doors at the Market st. family headquarters were posted once or twice a year with red placards, "Quarantined" do not enter".. We were the plague palace with everything from mumps to measles with chicken pox and whooping cough in between. {Side benefit: the bums stopped knocking at the door for a handout--at least one or 2 a day--it was the Depression, people were hungry and broke, and staff was busy.}

In fact , in 1936 when we returned from France with some kind of plague, it took the influence and legal-logical persuasion of Ennalls the Great to get us off the quarantined ship at all . Otherwise, it would have been, "Parlez vous" forever.
Perhaps it's just my lucky Superman genes, but just maybe, just possibly, all those shots have kept me free from everything from Polio [which was a real and frightful plague in the 40's and 50's] to wine Flu!

The ridiculous occurred in the Army, when, as I watched him very carefully, the huge man in our outfit keeled over upon the floor after his shot. Nobody dared laugh, but I found it classically funny!

Since then, I have never missed the "shot of the month"---Next year, I'll be 80 and they'll have to get rid of me with a different kind of shot..

Love and luck to all!

Ennalls [never took a shot that wasn't tasty!]

p.s. with these fabulous new needles, shot can barely be felt at all.

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