Steph, I'm just getting mine now due to the two courses of prednisone and then that virus I had a couple of weeks ago. But the word is it may be going around for another couple of months, so I figured better late than never.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
smonster - Feb 04, 2011 5:51:46 pm PST #14911 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
SailAweigh - Feb 04, 2011 5:53:03 pm PST #14912 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I think they've gotten better at formulating the flu vaccines. The first couple I had back in the 80s laid me out with a mild flu for 2-3 days. Having had the Hong Kong flu that didn't last that much longer, I saw no difference in getting the vaccine or not getting the vaccine. These days, about all I get is a tender arm and that's it. More than an acceptable trade off.
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2011 5:55:11 pm PST #14913 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph, I'm just getting mine now due to the two courses of prednisone and then that virus I had a couple of weeks ago. But the word is it may be going around for another couple of months, so I figured better late than never.
Hmmm. I should probably do that, too. Somehow I always think that once the holidays are over, flu risk is gone. I know, I know, it makes no sense if I stop to think about it.
lisah - Feb 04, 2011 6:07:12 pm PST #14914 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I was at the doctor on monday and could have gotten a shot but he was like, eh, kind of too late in the season for it.
Pix - Feb 04, 2011 6:08:50 pm PST #14915 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
I get the flu shot every year and am very grateful for it when most of the kids are laid out with it and I remain healthy. Getting flu-like symptoms from the shot is nothing compared to missing the actual flu.
Cass - Feb 04, 2011 6:12:27 pm PST #14916 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
so I just kept thinking, "Come on, herd immunity!"
I tend not to trust the herd. Plus a lot of holiday travel and being around mini petri dishes.
That and having had Tussie come to visit, I try and avoid what I can.
sj - Feb 04, 2011 6:14:13 pm PST #14917 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I got my flu shot in the fall and then had flu like symptoms and a good fever for a few days missing all of my Columbus weekend plans. But hopefully it will protect me from getting sick during the winter.
And speaking of winter, I am not leaving the house again until March at the earliest. If by some chance someone convinces me out of the house before then, I am certainly not driving.
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2011 6:14:54 pm PST #14918 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
so I just kept thinking, "Come on, herd immunity!"
I tend not to trust the herd.
Me neither, but since I wasn't allowed to get a shot, I kept trying to convince myself that the herd would get my back.
Cass - Feb 04, 2011 6:28:14 pm PST #14919 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I kept trying to convince myself that the herd would get my back.
Well, *I* had your back.
amych - Feb 04, 2011 6:38:14 pm PST #14920 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm admittedly hit and miss on the flu shots - some years I do it, and others I don't. Last year I caught the evol swine flu from hell in early October, before the vax was available, and I was utterly flattened for a solid month between the flu and the bronchitis that inevitably followed. SERIOUS motherfucker that made me very, very glad that I'm in good health otherwise, because I can't even imagine having to fight that shit on top of something else.
This year, I haven't so much as caught a cold, which makes me suspect I caught the H1N1 super-immunity lottery, but I'm afraid to jinx it.