Rich with Kids Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I have to say "Nay" on this one. When did they stop giving them like that? My sister has one and she's only 2 years older than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shell in SC Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 aye! Our age may be showing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie in tx Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye! But I don't think any of my sibs do. I remember standing in line at the elementary school waiting to get the shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*anj* Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 "Aye!" Yes, it's on my left arm. I was born in 1966. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 aye. Only mine is way up on my shoulder (did they miss?) I think I got it probably around 1965 - 66. (I was 3 years old then). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 My husband has one, but I don't. Guess you can tell who's older, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye! Born in 1959. I remember they did it at school - the nuns in black told us to line up and a nurse in white stabbed us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I was born in 1961 and I have one on my left arm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andie Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 But my mom does. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Yep. We were travelling to India in the 70s (I got to get out of school for the trip -- woohoo!) and it was recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
battlemaiden Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 It was in the seventies. We were most likely moving to Australia and had to have the vacc. Mine just wouldn't scar. The fourth try was the last attempt, and they were going to label me as naturally immune. It took. Those shots sure hurt!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langfam Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye, the size of a pea. I also, have one on my other arm the size of a dime....don't know what that's one's for.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam "SFSOM" in TN Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 "Aye!"Yes, it's on my left arm. I was born in 1966. :D Me, too. And me, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Yes, but it is so faded now you can hardly tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy in FL. Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye. Born in '67 and mine is the size of a dime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauriep Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye. :seeya: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Nope, I don't (1969, FL) and neither does dh (1966, NY). Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donovans4 Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 on my left arm, born in 1963. It is very small, much smaller than the one my dh has, and he was born in '57. LauraD in MN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asma_08 Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I do. I am 35 but lived overseas as a child, I think thats why we got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paula in PA Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 For both myself ('67) & dh ('68). But our sisters all do and my brother did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cricket1178 Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I have to say "aye". Born in '63. Funny thing is...it used to be on the side of my upper left arm, now it is on the back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle T Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 although mine is more on the back of my shoulder. Michelle T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in AR Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy loves Bud Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Nay. I was born in 1967. They were still vaccinating when my mom took me to get mine, and the Dr. told her not to scar her pretty little girl's arm, because there was no more small pox. I believe the WHO declared it eradicated in 1972 or thereabouts, which is when they would have stopped vaccinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye.. I'm a baby of the 60's (1965). Both dh and I have them, many of my friends don't. They stopped ~72? Right? I feel so old :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye..I was born in 1972 and must have been one of the very last to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca in GA Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye. Born in '68. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Dh does. He's the youngest person I know who has one. He was born in 1976, and his mother really had to *hunt* to find someone who would vaccinate him. (I don't have one, btw, but I'm younger than dh.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye...born in '75 and was a military brat. We usually got the entire round of everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye! I'm too young (1974), but I was an army brat overseas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebeccaC Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I was born in 60 got the shot in CA remember the huge scab but it did not scar at all. Docs did a repeat shot on me and it still did not scar.... Seems like a small percentage of folks who got the illness did not scar so maybe I fall in that group :001_huh: My brother got the shot the next year and would pick the scab during church so that he could get out of service and during school so he could get out of school, ect..... He would bleed something awful and it would throw my mom into a fit. He has a huge scar. My folks had 8 kids and 4 of the 8 got the shot. Number 5 was born in 69 and we moved back to IL in 70 and he did not get the shot. I was the only kid who did not scar. So I guess I am a nay even tho I got the shot twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 dh '63 aye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I was born in 1964 and I have the scar. My sibs were born from 1949 to 1966, so we all had the shot. My Dad was shot in St. Lo, France during WWII, about a month after D Day. As a result, he was missing a big hunk of flesh on his left upper arm. It was a circle about 2" across and 1/4" deep. For years as a child, I thought that was his vaccination scar. :lol: I was probably a teenager before my mom set me straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Lynx Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye. Born in '70. Military brat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diann Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Aye. I was born in 1960. Diann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WagsWife Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Nay! Born in 1972, military brat...and was stationed overseas. I wonder why some of us "brats" got them but not others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay in Cal Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Nay, born in 1970, and was a military brat! I was born in the base hospital too... strange! Dh also born in 1970, he doesn't have one either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa at Home Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 nt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy loves Bud Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Actually, I was wrong. It was declared eradicated in 1979. In 1967, when WHO launched an intensified plan to eradicate smallpox, the "ancient scourge" threatened 60% of the world's population, killed every fourth victim, scarred or blinded most survivors, and eluded any form of treatment. Through the success of the global eradication campaign, smallpox was finally pushed back to the horn of Africa and then to a single last natural case, which occurred in Somalia in 1977. A fatal laboratory-acquired case occurred in the United Kingdom in 1978. The global eradication of smallpox was certified, based on intense verification activities in countries, by a commission of eminent scientists in December 1979 and subsequently endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 1980. From WHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Yep--born in 1967 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabrams755 Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 b. 1964 yup, got one, and I stood in line and bawled my eyes out only because the other kids were. I remember that but don't remember if the shot actually hurt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in Orlando Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Aye! Born 1965 here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Aye. Born in 1963. I don't remember getting it, but I have the scar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*anj* Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 I remember that but don't remember if the shot actually hurt! Oh yeah it did. It hurt a lot! That's why the scar added insult to injury. First it hurt really badly, then it maimed me. &*%$@#*! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 I am old enough to have got it anyhow, but my db who is three years younger than me did not get it even though we were military brats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn. Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Me three! And me three! But Pam, I resent the old man and the cane! We are NOT old! My dc said I won't be old until I'm 80! (Please don't tell them I feel 80!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Aye, except mine has migrated to the back of my shoulder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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