So did I. It was a right of passage. It was thought back then that having gotten these childhood diseases and developing immunity is just the way it is. People actually stayed home when they were sick. I remember ice cream and reading books I liked and doing puzzles.
The dread diseases were TB, polio, and malaria. That's because those were the diseases that killed or permanently disabled a person. In those cases, a vaccine makes sense.
Had chicken pox when I was 3rd grade, everybody did back then. Never had mumps, though, but when I was in the military we got shots for everything including Black Plague...............