Anyone else old enough to remember standing in line for your polio shots

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53. I remember standing in line in a school gym....

in first or second grade. I can't remember if it was a polio shot or a TB test, maybe both at different times.. My family went to the Dr together in 1961 and all took the polio vaccine on sugar cubes together. We had gone home to the Midwest and Mom insisted we go to the only Dr she trusted at that time.

But I can't remember if that was my first or second polio vaccination. I had the smallpox vaccination a couple of times. Once when I was a child that I do not remember but I can see the scar, and when I finished high school, it was common ,where we lived, for students heading off to college to get a second vaccination.

My mother had the smallpox vaccination on her thigh. When she was heading off to college, that was the common site for girls to get the small pox vaccination. She has a large scar there. That would have been about 1949 or 1950.