This post will finish our nostalgic wanderings through the “Numbered Diseases of childhood,” which we’ve been undertaking for several weeks. We are finally at SIXTH disease.
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Can we CURE AIDS? Well, pretty much always no. But hope for a cure has never been brighter than now, with two infants well on their way to a cure – one of them now three years old, if you can believe it, and disease free off meds.
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You take the most addictive substance found in tobacco, sit in a dark room with your scheming buddies and find a way to deliver it straight to a “mark” while circumventing the law – what else do you think you would get besides a brazen SCAM? E-cigarettes!
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Remember a couple-three weeks ago, when we started this little vintage trek through “the Numbered Diseases of childhood”, I sort of poked fun at the new-fangled-kid doc who sat in the back row and thought that a “pox” was a “rash”?
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Here’s an interesting bit of data for you – an actual result to prove the effectiveness of a law that was passed. Really, how often do we ever get proof of what legislators manipulate us into doing?
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[This site hasn’t been posted on since 2017 when her son with Aspergers turned thirteen. The text is still there but the accompanying photos don’t load, probably because the Amazon AWS account has not been renewed. They don’t exist in the “wayback machine archive” either, darn!]The mother of an autistic child says it all in the title of her blog: “The A-Word – Living, Learning, Laughing and Loving with Autism.”
[Site no longer active – which makes me sorry for you. You really should have seen it in it’s day!]
[http://a-word.bangordailynews.com/]
We’ll continue our chats about “the Numbered Diseases of childhood” by discussing today FOURTH Disease and the unique circumstances about this number.
You remember from our previous discussions that the physicians in 1905 tried to streamline all the names of the rash-causing diseases by giving them numbers, one through six – oh, for the days!
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