It's apparently really bad if you get it when you're adult
it turns into Shingles..when my youngest was small, I used to try and make her catch it. Whenever I heard any child had it I used to whisk her round to try and put a pox on her..and failed..
( Lu, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:40, archived)

yeah we held a pox party when
I got it and loads of other children were brought round to be near me. Then I gave it my dad, he was in itchy agony but I just liked haveing him at home for a week
( Vultan the real one I threw my little yellow shoe, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:41, archived)

i'm 13 and i *might* have had it.
i had itchy spots so mum thought i had them.
(That guy with a hat., Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:44, archived)

Make sure you have it young
My neighbours kid gave it to me as an adult and it turned into shingles which was a living nightmare for 6 whole bloody weeks.
It attacks the nervous system and was non stop big time pain the whole time.
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:49, archived)

Err, thanks for telling me that.
I've never had chicken pox and I'm almost 20. Think there's a possibility I'll never get it?
( mariosoup is the patron saint of quality footwear, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:53, archived)

they have a vaccine now, y'know...
But, just to scare you:

Ten years old: Cousins get chicken pox. Mother takes us over there. We don't get chicken pox.
Sixteen years old: Sister, brother, and stepfather get chicken pox. I don't live with them, but I go to visit. Sleep in the same house with the scabbed-over brother and sister and still-infectious stepfather, and don't get chicken pox.
Twenty years old: Visit a friend who starts feeling sick right after I leave. She comes down with chicken pox. I don't.
Twenty-seven years old: Absolutely out of nowhere, I come down with chicken pox.
( Sydney Bintstow, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:59, archived)

One of the best ever replies I have read on here
I spilled my beer.
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 22:02, archived)

Pox party?
Never had them when I was a kid. Novel.
(Small Beer, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:44, archived)

it was fun

( Vultan the real one I threw my little yellow shoe, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:52, archived)

was there cake
it would have been a shit party if they had to play the "sit next to each other" game the whole time
( connor, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:45, archived)

Whatever is wrong
with pass the parcel? I'll be playing it at my 17th in a few weeks...
( Malchick, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:47, archived)

cake and jelly
icecream sweets and of course vomit
( Vultan the real one I threw my little yellow shoe, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:54, archived)

Pox Parties!
Reminds me of South Park


I think Pox Parties are banned in Canada because it increases the likelyhood of mutation.
(fcknuts, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:46, archived)

Yeah, but what doesn't?

( Malchick, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:47, archived)

radiation
oh now hang on err .. um clay?
( Vultan the real one I threw my little yellow shoe, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:53, archived)

I had one of those
it was my 3rd birthday. I thought I was the only one!
(underachiever, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:55, archived)

no, I felt special
only Jonerthan Green came and he was a cunt even at 6.
hehe we had pratical old fashioned parents bet they dont do that now.
Wont even get imunisations the selfish gits
( Vultan the real one I threw my little yellow shoe, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 22:00, archived)

I was immunised
and I turned out ok...

We just invited the kids who'd already had it, the kids whose parents wanted them to catch it, and the kids no-one liked. And then breathed on them.
(underachiever, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 22:08, archived)

Fortunately I had it when I was about 5
just before I had glandular fever. The joy.
I'm just glad I had it early, not so much for health reasons but for the fact that having the disease with my surname would have gained me many titterings.
( Malchick, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:43, archived)

my bro had his tonsils removed
one week after chicken pox.he got ice-cream where I,alas,had no iced-cream.
(That guy with a hat., Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:45, archived)

anti-virals are the BEST THING EVER
because if you're an adult and come down with chicken pox, then the doctor gives you antivirals and sedatives, and tells you to sleep it off for the next two weeks.

And then your husband goes off to a scifi convention that you were both supposed to go to and all you do is play Rollercoaster Tycoon and cover up all the mirrors in your house so you don't have to see your scary scary face.
( Sydney Bintstow, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:49, archived)

One day I hope to find a wife*
who will attend sci-fi conventions with me.

*preferably not someone else's
( Malchick, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:52, archived)

You can have mine.
Wherever she is.
Stupid moo.
( PastorSauce : easy on the anchovies..., Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:58, archived)

I had shingles when I was about 10,
it was fun.
(Amorpha, Thu 12 Aug 2004, 21:49, archived)