[twigs]

I have been blessed with excellent health my entire life. But the one thing that has from time to time gotten me has been chicken pox-related viruses. At first, no one connected them. I had chicken pox twice as a child (yes, it CAN happen), shingles as a teen-ager and an eye infection in college that was shown to be a herpes virus related to the above IIRC. So when I had my own child and she got chicken pox, I talked to her doctor about my health experiences, and he said that it seemed I was just vulnerable to this type of virus and to keep a watch out. Fortunately, I have no longer gotten anything else similar. We're all so different!

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

lone star annie, How severe of a case did your husband come down with?

Chicken Pox scares me; I can't imagine having it twice!

After my now-13 year old son came down with it at 14 months old, my doctor gave me a VZV titer which showed that I had no detectable antibody to the chicken pox virus, the absence of which serves as evidence of susceptibility to varicella. I can only hope I don't catch it one of these days.