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.
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
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Pix - Feb 04, 2011 6:08:50 pm PST #14915 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
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.
Hil R. - Feb 04, 2011 7:07:56 pm PST #14921 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm feeling too jittery to sleep. Not sure what that's about. I should probably turn off the computer and read something, to calm down my brain a bit.
Atropa - Feb 04, 2011 7:10:17 pm PST #14922 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I didn't bother getting a flu shot, because I never felt well enough to do so. And now, I suspect that getting a flu shot while taking heavy-duty antibiotics to deal with the cat-scratch fever? Kinda counter-productive.
sj - Feb 04, 2011 7:10:42 pm PST #14923 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm feeling too jittery to sleep.
Me too, but I know the reason for mine. Too much mountain dew today trying to get through the day after a night of 2 hours of sleep.
Cass - Feb 04, 2011 7:22:37 pm PST #14924 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.
Turn off the computers, read something soothing and try to relax.
Kinda counter-productive.
True.
Man, antib's are kinda useful when you need them. I sort of forgot how much I liked breathing.