I don’t know if my small pox vaccination “took”. I have no scar, but my mother made such a big hairy deal about how awful it would be if I scratched it and how I would be scarred for life and how horribly disfigured I’d be forever-after.
It itched like fury, but I was too terrified to touch it.
Thanks mom. No scars on the outside, see?
My first smallpox vaccine produced nothing on my arm. While kids all around me were suffering with these hugh scabs, my upper left arm was pristine. I was 20 when I had the second one, and it left a small but jagged scar, and produced fever and other bodily malfunctions for three days, that I couldn’t deal with. My son was about six months old at the time, and I couldn’t lift him because my left arm was totally useless.
I wuz SIC!