being ill

when i was about 7 or 8, and would get sick to the point of vomiting, i thought that my body was confused and that i was actually having diarrhea out my mouth instead of my butt... needless to say, i had some interesting complaints to tell my parents.

cloud

I used to think that, when people were talking about "Alzheimer's," they were actually saying "Old Timer's." I used to think the official medical term for the disease was "Old Timer's." Heh.

Darrin

When a classmate repeated that old addage "step on a crack, break your mother's back" I believed it and since my Mom had a lot of illness for years as a I child I was terrified of stepping on a crack.

Leslie

My cousin came in we were young and announce that HE had pulled his cervix. Connfusing that with his cervical vertebrae. He was ina lot of pain, but that was really funny

Austin

My little brother who is 14 has never had the chicken pox...but he's convinced that he has. My mother and I know better, but I don't think we're ever going to convince him of the truth.

Anon

My aunt told my cousin when he had an ear infection that there was wax in his ear. He thought she'd said there were "wacks" in his ear, so when he had a less severe infection he asked if there was just one "wack" this time, lol

Dave H

When I was 4 years old I used to believe that I was allergic to rain because whenever it rained my asthma would get worse.

Anon

I used to think that if you were sick or injured you couldn't die if you didn't lay down. I noticed that the cowboys in the Westerns didn't die until they fell off their horse or were laying on the ground. Ever try standing up with the MUMPS?

GRC

I used to believe (thanks to a friend who's mom had breast cancer) that you could get breast cancer by wearing a bra to sleep at night!

Anon

i used to believe i would become disabled & unable to walk if i ate an icicle my uncle walt who was disabled

Anon

When people said they had a cataract I thought that meant that a bad kitty had scratched their eye and it caused permanent damage.

Jessy

I actually believed I got my chicken pox from the chickens I used to play with at my grandmothers house!(I think she wanted me to leave them alone!)

Melissa

As a child my mother would tell me, "Don't sit on cold cement or you'll get piles!" (hemorrhoids)

LJB

My dad had diptheria as a child in the early thirties, but having survived that major killer disease, he has never had any of the usual stuff like measles, chicken pox, mumps etc - all highly infections, and him with two children who caught the lot! Is it any surprise that I always thought that, if you survived diptheria, you would never get ill again, and was quite disappointed to discover that I had been immunised against it!!

Sue

When I was in elementery school, my father had a heart attack and nearly died. In my music class the teacher would blow into a round disk before we sang a song to get the right pitch. Somehow I believed she was blowing into the disk to prevent her from getting a heart attack!

Cougar