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Barbara Walters Has Chickenpox, Remains Hospitalized
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Posted on 01/28/2013 1:21:13 PM PST by SMGFan

Barbara Walters has been in the hospital for more than a week after she fell and hit her head during pre-Inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C. — and now the View co-host has contracted the chickenpox.

While doctors were monitoring Walters after her fall, they noticed her fever was not subsiding and eventually determined that it was due to chickenpox, according to The Associated Press.

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To: zeestephen; waredbird
As much as I would love to join the jeering crowd on this one, having chicken pox or shingles when you are old can be a severely nasty illness.

You are correct, that can be a very nasty and painful long lasting illness in an older person. As much as I dislike Barbara Walters, I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, well at least most. : )

When I was 27, my 1 year old daughter came down with chickenpox. She had maybe a dozen pox and never slowed down a bit. One week later I was down and out delirious with high fever and pox from head to toe. Forty years later she got shingles. One week later so did I. The gift that keeps on giving. When she was two, the mumps were going around. I grabbed her and we both went for mump shots. We didn’t get mumps.

Although I remember having the Measles as a kid, I’m not sure if I ever had Chicken Pox as a kid, not even sure if it was part of my childhood immunizations, don’t have those records and both my parents are deceased. But just to be on the safe side, I recently got the vaccine. People who get Shingles cannot transmit Shingles to others but they can infect a non-immunized person or a person who has never had Chicken Pox, with Chicken Pox.

FWIW, my older brother nearly died from complications of the Mumps – Meningitis.

41 posted on 01/28/2013 2:19:05 PM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: SMGFan

Crappola.
The old hag is in for a nip tuck and this is the cover story.
Hillary is scheduled next.


42 posted on 01/28/2013 2:28:19 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: tumblindice
First Hitlery, now Babwa. That's too bad.
Ruh-roh... we make fun of that ad all the time... :)
43 posted on 01/28/2013 2:31:40 PM PST by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: SMGFan

Buc-buc-buc-BU-UCK!

Her face does not need anything more unattractive on it.

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44 posted on 01/28/2013 2:37:04 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: SMGFan

Bawa wawa is a pox on humanity.


45 posted on 01/28/2013 2:37:15 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: SMGFan

It is possible to lose immunity and catch them again late in life.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer hag.


46 posted on 01/28/2013 2:47:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: redpoll

The ‘I was dehydrated from a stomach virus, fainted and bumped my head’ excuse was already taken.

Although, actually going to the hospital does add a whole new dimension to things.

Lets see if her driver turns around and goes back to the hospital once she is discharged. And if she is wearing a visor a la Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge like Hill is.


47 posted on 01/28/2013 2:59:31 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SMGFan

At this age, thought it is manifested as shingles.


48 posted on 01/28/2013 3:02:00 PM PST by opentalk
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To: SMGFan

And I care, why? Take Whoopie Cushion with you.


49 posted on 01/28/2013 3:04:13 PM PST by Student0165
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To: SMGFan

I got the chicken pox in my thirties. Never been sicker in my whole life. Thought I was going to die.

At her age I would say it could easily be fatal.


50 posted on 01/28/2013 3:09:53 PM PST by EternalVigilance ('Where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.' Samuel Adams)
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To: MD Expat in PA

Although I had every other childhood disease, I never got the mumps, even though my 2 brothers had it and we all slept in the same room then. I have had aseptic meningitis, which was horrible....


51 posted on 01/28/2013 4:17:04 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: SMGFan

Prayers up for the 1st Lady of Telejournalism! (CLEARS THROAT).
REMEMBER, Michelle Obama is the 1st Lady of the United States.


52 posted on 01/28/2013 4:30:55 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: SMGFan
She probably has Libola.

Libola : Infectious Mental Disorder where Liberal Crap oozes out of all your pores and orfices.

53 posted on 01/28/2013 4:34:21 PM PST by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: SMGFan; a fool in paradise

Isn’t Mrs Wawa unmarried now? And how many unlucky husbands has she buried? No matter. Do lishping shingles get shingles?


54 posted on 01/28/2013 4:54:27 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: SMGFan

Shingles, eh?


55 posted on 01/28/2013 5:14:35 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: All
Barbara Walters is not my favorite person but I can not believe some of the comments on this thread.
I have to wonder how many adults are actually posting. Or how many so called Christians are posting.

My prayers are with Barbara and that she has a speedy recovery. I enjoy watching The View's hot topic segment and listening to the different views the ladies have.
56 posted on 01/28/2013 5:24:48 PM PST by imjustme
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To: SMGFan

At her age wouldn’t she have the shingles not the chickenpox, same virus different affect?


57 posted on 01/28/2013 5:42:06 PM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: SMGFan

And here I was hoping it was Mumps so her
testicles would never drop.....or something.


58 posted on 01/28/2013 5:51:07 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: redpoll

You can get chicken pox multiple times. I’ve had it 3 times, possibly 4. Got all my childhood illnesses as an adult. Zoster is the only one I’ve had more than once.

For those of you out there who think you can only get it once, it’s not true. Yes, they teach that in medical school but they teach a lot of baloney in medical school. Some good stuff too.


59 posted on 01/28/2013 6:09:40 PM PST by ladyjane (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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To: onyx

Sure a lot of falling going on among liberal females!


60 posted on 01/28/2013 10:33:37 PM PST by jayrunner
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