690 Subj : Re: Question for Doc Sharon (and any other doctors out there) To : alt.tv.er From : Gabby Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 23:15:29 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er "DawnK" wrote in message news:Gu4Ve.30220$ih4.16542@fe02.lga... > > "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. Oh yeah, and a penicillin shot will cure a cold every time dontcha know. Gabby . 0