Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.
I had breast cancer. I caught it early.
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.