{"id":648,"date":"2011-05-11T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-05-11T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T18:27:12","slug":"whooping-cough-and-your-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/11\/whooping-cough-and-your-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Whooping Cough and Your Genealogy…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some weeks ago, I posted on this blog wrapped in a blanket and coughing, coughing, coughing. I thought I had a bad cold–wrong!\u00a0 I had adult whooping cough<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like oodles of other people in America, I was immunized when I went to grade school.\u00a0 And then in my early adult life, I was immunized again because we had a root cellar that flooded.\u00a0 And we wanted to clean it out.\u00a0 My doctor said to be sure that our typhoid immunity was current.\u00a0 We got the DPT shot,\u00a0siphoned out the cellar, and went on with life.\u00a0 Never occurred to me that I would need an adult version of the child’s immunization later in my life.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0late October 2010, I had a runny nose and coughed and coughed and coughed–just before the Family History Expos Research Retreat.\u00a0\u00a0When the cough did not stop, they put me on antibiotics.\u00a0\u00a0 So I could consult and teach at the Retreat.\u00a0 Presenting my classes was a trial\u00a0 for all of us–me when trying to speak while coughing\u00a0and the attendees when listening to me cough.<\/p>\n

I coughed and coughed.\u00a0 What soothed my throat most were licorice sticks and milk shakes.\u00a0\u00a0Cough syrup and lozenges just stuck in my throat.\u00a0 And believe me–I tried everything I knew about and the attendees shared with me all the stuff they had brought with them.\u00a0 Nothing worked well.<\/p>\n

When I got the stuff a second time, it took stronger antibiotics and full bed rest for over 10 days before I could stop coughing.\u00a0 The first bout in October, I continued my regular routine–blithely exposing others around me to the same disease. Thank goodness I did not come into contact with babies!<\/p>\n

Whooping Cough and Your Genealogy<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my former life I was a Registered Nurse.\u00a0 And I knew how contagious whooping cough was–just never knew that adults could get it.\u00a0 And certainly, that I could\u00a0get it twice.\u00a0 Wrong both times.\u00a0 So the second time around, I stayed put–at home.\u00a0 I did not fill orders nor work on my research reports.\u00a0 The second time around, I knew\u00a0better than to send out stuff that I had coughed over.<\/p>\n

So it probably was a blessing in disguise–when several of the things I shipped during the first illness disappeared and were never delivered.\u00a0 That way, you did not get exposed to the illness through me.<\/p>\n

And now that I am better, and feeling better, I’m re-filling the orders that were lost.\u00a0 Many thanks\u00a0\u00a0to all of you who have called or sent emails or written to determine where your stuff is.\u00a0 Many thanks!\u00a0 How else would I know?<\/p>\n

Books and Genealogy Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear readers, if your order for books or research has not arrived in a reasonable time, will you contact me?\u00a0 Go to http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/a>\u00a0and let me know.\u00a0 Email link direct to me and addresses and phone numbers are all there.<\/p>\n

There is a pre-epidemic of whooping cough in my county–school children who have been sent home from school with a bad cough.\u00a0 And babies in the hospital on breathing devices and one little infant a few weeks old who could not be saved–and I may have done my part to spread this bug.\u00a0 [What is a pre-epidemic?\u00a0 With a contagious disease, you are usually in a full-blown mess.]<\/p>\n

Whole populations died when your ancestors confronted the disease.\u00a0 Here’s the thing–I did not whoop when I breathed in, just wheezed.\u00a0 And since I have asthma, I sometimes wheeze when I breathe in–that is a signal that it is time to repeat my medication–which I take daily.<\/p>\n

All of this may be more than you wanted to know this morning.\u00a0 However, these diseases spread from sea to\u00a0shining sea and if you get a runny nose with a cough–head for your local clinic pronto.\u00a0 Or if you wheeze when you breathe in–trot off for help.\u00a0 My experience with it is not unique.\u00a0 I learned that it is from adults who already have the disease that babies get it from!\u00a0<\/p>\n

So if you are missing your stuff, let me know.\u00a0 And I will ship another set or copy or whatever.\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle<\/p>\n

PS\u00a0 Whooping Cough–a big loss in time and in product for me.\u00a0 And I have now doubled my commitment and my time spent to ensure that my work and my\u00a0research reports are delivered on time.\u00a0 Takes about 3 weeks from exposure to get sick and it takes about 3 weeks to be completely free of the disease.\u00a0 It will take much longer than 6 weeks for me to catch up completely–I am quite efficient, just not super-human.\u00a0 I’ll appreciate your allowing me to do my best work for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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