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.
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....