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[urocyon]

I got out both yesterday and today (well, it's still today if I haven't yet gone to sleep), which is unusual of late. Yesterday, my mom and I made a trip to the chemist's, and then did a little shopping. I picked up some surprisingly inexpensive but pretty shell jewelry, a few bottles of assorted nail polish and a tube of lipstick, and a £5 faux-leopard hat, besides the usual more-than-anticipated Lidl edibles. Today, I headed up the street to get the shaggy mop my hair had become fixed--the spirit-lifting effect is always a bit surprising. :) vatine was kind enough to run back to the chemist's before they closed, to pick up the rest of the prescriptions, when things took longer than expected at the hair shop.

Yay for paroxetine and returning sunlight!

Stopping by the newsagent's on the way in this afternoon, I glanced at another headline about the mumps outbreak, and felt rather silly. Pretty late for it to occur to me that I may well be on the mend from a mild case of the mumps, eh? *wry smile* I'd been blaming classic mumps symptoms on another bout with the flu, likely because my university wouldn't let me start a bit over ten years ago without an MMR booster. (Measles had been floating around, thanks to a bad batch some of us had gotten as children, in that case.)

This line of reasoning held out in spite of my already strong suspicion that vaccines might not work so well for me, since I don't seem to form a lot of antibodies (and have known family members to come down repeatedly with chicken pox; or with measles, despite vaccination). A quick search turned up some further support for this idea here, from Katherine O'Brien, MD, at Johns Hopkins: "Some vaccines do not work as well among Native American people...".

Mumps or the flu, it makes very little difference at this point, but I did feel very silly. *g*

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It probably has more to do with the fact that the MMR vaccination is only actually effective for about ten years or so, according to some sources. (There was a big debate on the MMR and vaccination in general in the comments section of a post I made on the subject about a month ago.)

[urocyon-c.livejournal.com]

Thanks; I didn't realise that. (I'm just coming out of having been withdrawn enough lately that I didn't see your post--will have to go back and look.) In that case, going for another rubella vaccination might be a reasonable idea--if only for safety's sake in case of unforeseen happenings.