Thanks to the Saskatoon School Board (who couldn't deal with mid-July birthdays, apparently, too young for vaccine one year, too old the next), I didn't get the MMR as a child and got the mumps when I was 25. Those prosthetics... they're damned accurate. I looked like the fat kid in the Gary Larson cartoons (my neck was wider than my head). And yes, it fucking hurts. Alternating ice packs & hot packs - I think it must have been that ANY sensation other than what was going on on the inside was preferable.