5c2 Subj : Re: Question for Doc Sharon (and any other doctors out there) To : alt.tv.er From : DawnK Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 21:04:05 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er "Gabby" wrote in message news:11i9dmv4n7if827@corp.supernews.com... > > "DawnK" wrote in message > news:d12Ve.1904$6Z3.1317@fe06.lga... >> >> "Gabby" wrote in message >> news:11i829il6k7l47f@corp.supernews.com... >>>Relegated that 'fact' to the same garbage bin as the one about getting TB >>>if you took a bath or went swimming while you were menstruating. My >>>father freaked when he found out I was in the tub after I started my >>>period. He angrily asked my mom "Didn't you tell her what would >>>happen????" I had to explain some facts to her. > > >> Getting TB, because you took a bath, or went swimming, during your >> period? I never heard that one before! Doesn't quite work that way, >> since TB is a respiratory thing! > > Oh, but you know how these things work. One girl they knew would go > swimming no matter what and she got TB. Ergo, swimming during her period > caused the TB. There was no explaining to them that TB is a bacterial > infection not in any way caused by the swimming -- unless she was swimming > with somebody who had tuberculosis. > > Gabby > Oh no! Do they believe that you can get a cold, because you're cold, too? That one kills me, too. Dawn . 0