CelticGoddess wrote:
I confess that you're probably talking about chicken pox? I got it when I was 14 and it was brutal.
I confess it suddenly hit me, its not the chicken pox,
its the mumps (parotitis epidemica) i`m talking about,
it makes things swell up..

I think most kids are
vacinated against that now if i dont remember wrong,
so its not very usual