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Feeling Poorly
My mother hates the word "poorly." I love it - it's a useful one to go along with ill and sick, with different nuances. But she hates it, because of a card her English cousin sent her little sister once.
The card said "I'm sorry to hear you've been poorly."
The little sister had died of meningitis a few days previously.
I'm sitting here looking at the children's Little Red Books, or Personal Child Health Records.
Linnea has had vaccinations for (or against) Diphtheria/Tetanus/Whooping Cough/Polio, but not Hib/Men C, aged 2 months, 3 months, 4 months and 3 and a half years, when she also had a Hib one. She had her first MMR just before she turned 2 years old. She's due the booster for that, I think.
Emer had Diphtheria/Tetanus/Whooping Cough/Polio, Hib/Men C and something called Prevener LT at the same time, at just over 2 months, 3 months, and 5 months. She had a Hib/MenC jab at 14 months, and the MMR and Prevener at 17 months. She's not due anything more until she's 3 years old.
They appear to be up to date with the NHS schedule, though googling for Prevener didn't give me much information. I keep meaning to phone the doctors and double-check what they have and haven't been immunised for because they have different schedules, things changed after Linnea was born. In fact, the schedule changed after Emer was born. And, of course, I was operating in a haze every time I went near a medical professional, which doesn't help.
They've both been exposed to but not contracted chicken pox and hand, foot and mouth disease. Rob and I both got the BCG and Rob got a polio vaccine and I caught rubella. I had measles and whooping cough as a toddler; I faintly remember the measles but I wasn't very ill with either one. I was shocked to learn that Roald Dahl's daughter had died of measles, when I read it in the dedication of one of his books.
I've had chickenpox three times. Rob isn't sure he ever has. I hope the kids inherit his immune system, and not mine.
The card said "I'm sorry to hear you've been poorly."
The little sister had died of meningitis a few days previously.
I'm sitting here looking at the children's Little Red Books, or Personal Child Health Records.
Linnea has had vaccinations for (or against) Diphtheria/Tetanus/Whooping Cough/Polio, but not Hib/Men C, aged 2 months, 3 months, 4 months and 3 and a half years, when she also had a Hib one. She had her first MMR just before she turned 2 years old. She's due the booster for that, I think.
Emer had Diphtheria/Tetanus/Whooping Cough/Polio, Hib/Men C and something called Prevener LT at the same time, at just over 2 months, 3 months, and 5 months. She had a Hib/MenC jab at 14 months, and the MMR and Prevener at 17 months. She's not due anything more until she's 3 years old.
They appear to be up to date with the NHS schedule, though googling for Prevener didn't give me much information. I keep meaning to phone the doctors and double-check what they have and haven't been immunised for because they have different schedules, things changed after Linnea was born. In fact, the schedule changed after Emer was born. And, of course, I was operating in a haze every time I went near a medical professional, which doesn't help.
They've both been exposed to but not contracted chicken pox and hand, foot and mouth disease. Rob and I both got the BCG and Rob got a polio vaccine and I caught rubella. I had measles and whooping cough as a toddler; I faintly remember the measles but I wasn't very ill with either one. I was shocked to learn that Roald Dahl's daughter had died of measles, when I read it in the dedication of one of his books.
I've had chickenpox three times. Rob isn't sure he ever has. I hope the kids inherit his immune system, and not mine.
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(I got it as an adult, see my other comment.)
For TB - I know the UK does it, but the US doesn't. Negative TB tine tests (i.e. a skin reaction test to see if you have it or not) are a common requirement of people working in schools and some other jobs in many states. (I had to do one when I worked at my former college, even though I'd just graduated from the same place a month or two earlier.)
My mom had the TB vaccine as a child in the UK, and kept having to do more involved proof that she didn't have it (as the vaccine makes the tine test come out positive.)
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Mom tried to get me the smallpox vaccine, but they were on their way out at that point, and she didn't manage it.
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Infant 2-6 months 3 doses each of 0.5ml separated by intervals of 1 month and a further dose in second year of life; 7-11 months 2 doses each of 0.5ml separated by an interval of 1 month and a further dose in second year of life. [...] thigh is preferred [injection] site in infants.
Cor, that's spendy. £34.50 a shot.
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IIRC, though, if you once got one of the two diseases from the virus, you'll always get that version. If that is abny consolation.
Luckily for me, I seem to get immune to these things you are supposed to get immune to when infected once - rubella, measles, chicken pox... The onyl thing I don't remember getting is mumps.
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http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1032.aspx?CategoryID=62&SubCategoryID=63
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40024951
our ds will be getting his shot in germany during his next well child visit. dd is also getting her hep b shots in germany