Mumps in the year 2006?!?!?!?!

Who the hell gets mumps?!?!?! Apparently me!!! How you might ask??? Don't ask me...My face swells up no both sides by my jaw so I head to the ER (not my choice but Pep usually knows better)...I become "the Mystery case of the night". "We think it's mumps" says one of DCMH's finest residents, and I do like this guy so there is only a bit of sarcasm in my "finest" comment but not allot. He leaves and confers w/ another Doctor, who comes back pretty quick, guess he couldn't believe it either...Lo and behold he says mumps too but we need some blood tests. MY Reply is if it's not "could it be the Plague??? He didn't laugh...