Title: ASK FRED MERTZ Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 27, 2013 Author:. Post Date:2013-02-27 23:44:19 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:56271 Comments:151
Fred has been around the block a few times. He has lots of wisdom and would love to answer any questions you have about life.
Hey Fred. You said you were part Indian. Tell us some interesting stories that you haven't shared before about what life was like when you were younger.
Did lots of people mainly children, die of polio, measles, rubella and mumps when you were a kid?
I remember lots of kids getting the measles during my childhood years. I was afflicted with a terminal case of smallcox, but I digress. I never had the mumps but I recall some family members and kids at school had it.
Before I was born my dad had tuberculosis. He had and still has about a thirty inch scar across his back. He told us it was from an airplane propeller cut and we believed him. Yesterday I saw some headline of an outbreak of TB in California, I believe, mostly amongst homeless people. I was going to look up that disease but I didn't. I recall on all those medical forms for physicals and a checkup they asked if anyone in my family had TB and I had to check yes, being the honest injun that I am.
I'm due for my semi-annual checkup this morning so maybe I'll ask the health care professionals about TB.
Also, I remember when we moved to the country, a farm, we kids somehow got worms and our dad had to inspect us with a flashlight nightly after we got medicated.
I can NEVER sincereLEE root for the Eagles to ever win, not since those loser Scumbagz derived so much pleasure from "The BodyBag Game". .I spit in the direction of Philadelphia, which is directly towards my caddy-cornet neighbor, PhillyBill, the Lib'ral DemocRAT.. Lol....missed him, though...snow is kicking up a bit...and MUD can't SPIT near as far as he could when he was a few years less mature and seasoned...MUD
