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PADemD

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6. For people who have never had the whooping cough, let me tell you what it was like.

Reply to UnrepentantLiberal (Original post)

Fri Jul 20, 2012, 01:21 AM

Jul 2012

For a whole month, I woke up every night and morning with an asthma-like coughing fit, struggling to catch my breath. Every time I ate something, I coughed it up. Imagine feeling extremely hungry for a whole month, but not being able to keep any food or liquid down. I went from 100 to 80 pounds, and my ribs ached from the constant coughing.

YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET WHOOPING COUGH! THE IMMUNITY WEARS OFF. IF IT HAS BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE YOU HAD A PERTUSSIS SHOT, GET A BOOSTER!

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CDC: Whooping cough cases may be most in 5 decades [View all] UnrepentantLiberal Jul 2012 OP

Du rec. Nt xchrom Jul 2012 #1

Thanks a lot, anti-vaxxer kooks! Archae Jul 2012 #2

This is only going to get worse. UnrepentantLiberal Jul 2012 #5

1959 PADemD Jul 2012 #3

I got it some time in the early fifties, murielm99 Jul 2012 #4

For people who have never had the whooping cough, let me tell you what it was like. PADemD Jul 2012 #6

That sounds awful. UnrepentantLiberal Jul 2012 #7

My daughter & her littlest one are part of the statistics. peacefreak Jul 2012 #8