I got chickenpox and shingles as a kid. I was young enough to not remember the chicken pox (which I I think I got from one of my older siblings), and then in second grade I got the shingles, which I had never even heard of at the time. As a late millennial (of parents who were not antivax by any means) I imagine if I were even a few years younger I probably would have gotten the chickenpox vaccine and been able to skip both.

I just recently got a blood test to confirm if I ever had gotten chickenpox as a child (my mother didn't remember if I had).

Sadly it came back positive for antibodies. I was really hoping I had somehow evaded it, and could get the vaccine as an adult.

The original question had nothing to do with getting Chickenpox or Shingles.

Well, now… I can tell you second hand that catching chicken pox as an adult is no picnic either.

> it may come out for a second go around

or third. fifteenth.

We don’t track reinfection well.

We don’t really define infection well (especially in a context where you’re waiting 2-6 weeks for an appointment to get bloodwork ordered, by which point the blood is often irrelevant to the complaint 2-6 weeks prior).

Not in practice, anyway.