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"Flu Shot!"
Posted by foonermints on 10-01-12 at 05:25 PM
I only started to get them about 3 years ago. I can't believe it's time to let CVS cheat me out of another twenty bucks! After all, I've been good for the last three years. Do they work? Who knows?!
Black Ops is probably tracking me now because of the secret barium and aluminum in the formula. I bet they are just trying to hold back their glee when they finally individually zap me with the HAARP Death Ray.


Gone Viral with Moonbabiy.

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"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by kingfish on 10-01-12 at 05:35 PM
Here the county health center distributes them for free. Maybe the same there?
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by foonermints on 10-01-12 at 05:45 PM
THe trouble is in LA, is that they rub DDT in the wound until it bubbles up. Then they just smile and tell you to buy a cemetary plot to "Have a Happy Day!"

Kinda like those light bulbs they dropped in the New Yawk subway system, but I overfantasize.

foonermint: watching out for the unexpected under the Moon!

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by kingfish on 10-01-12 at 07:20 PM
LAST EDITED ON 10-01-12 AT 07:23 PM (EST)

But, they don't charge for the DDT, right?

Win win?

Win lose?

I got one too. Didn't feel a thing. Of course I fainted when the needle entered the room, but that made it painless.

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 10-01-12 at 07:23 PM
LAST EDITED ON 10-01-12 AT 07:28 PM (EST)

*shrugs*

We don't pay for that stuff up here.

Flu shots are good if you get them when you're feeling in tip-top shape and get them every year. Think of it as a computer virus protection program - if you wait until the computer's already got a virus in it, it'll spread before the program has a chance to zap it. New viruses come out every day, so you've got to upgrade the program regularly to stay on top of it just like flu shots being upgraded every year.

I have friends who claim that they get sick every time they get their flu shots. It's because they wait until they start to feel sick before going for the shot! I get mine when I'm feeling good so it lessens the impact of a flu later on when I do start to get symptoms.

"Socialist!"
Posted by foonermints on 10-01-12 at 07:57 PM
Jeepers! The voice of reason from a skunk!
Ah well, you are completely right, but you aren't letting me have any fun, are you? Meanie!

I'm feeling a leetle chokey, but that was probably finishing up the stucco yesterday. I also had to sweat out all the beer. Dang-a-Roni..
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by Round Robin on 10-02-12 at 00:28 AM
I've never had one give me the flu yet, but I get mine every year, because the last damn thing I need with all the other health issues I have is to get the damn flu. At least if you get a flu shot, when you get the flu it's only maybe 30% as bad. Beats the hell outta full blown flu any day.
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by Max Headroom on 10-02-12 at 08:21 AM
I get a flu shot every year, yet two winters ago I got sick as a dog. Diagnosis: Influenza B.
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by newsomewayne on 10-02-12 at 08:35 AM
I don't get the flu shot. Most of my chances of exposure are secondary. Tertiary if you count my wife's Cloud-O-Lysol at every door.

Besides, if I do get the flu, it's a great weight loss kick starter. Always good for 5 to 10 lbs.

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by cahaya on 10-02-12 at 10:48 AM
Here's one thing we agree on, then. I don't get flu shots either. I very rarely get the flu and when I do I get over it fairly easily. My family caught the H1N1 flu when it was spreading and we all got over it within a week, although it wasn't pleasant. When we took DD to the pediatrician, when he found that she tested positive for H1N1, he sent us out the back door and not through the waiting room lobby! And at that time, a standard flu shot would have been worthless, with no protection against H1N1.
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by Snidget on 10-02-12 at 11:18 AM
I get it every year as I have asthma that mostly acts up really bad if I get any kind of upper respiratory infection.

Since a cold can be really bad for me, I figure the flu would be worse.

"agree"
Posted by bondt007 on 12-23-12 at 00:59 AM
Every year DW gets a shot and I do not. It's a real-time experiment. So far, for 13 years, she has never had the flu, and neither have I !



>Issued by "Q" and RollDdice

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by jbug on 10-02-12 at 12:36 PM
DH got his a month or so ago.
I still need to get mine & my mom too.
I only started getting them a year or so ago because of DH's insistence.

Now tho I think we should all get the shingles vaccine.
Yep, we all had chicken pox as kids.


Scared by Agman in 2008

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by mom2bjm on 10-02-12 at 07:51 PM
I don't know that I've ever gotten one as an adult, and I don't generally get the flu, so I figure I am okay.

DH, though, is required to get one for his job - He works for a health care company.. When he started the job in January, he was also required to get a chicken pox shot...because his blood work showed he'd not had the titer (?) ... so nearly three weeks later what does he come down with?? Yes.. the chicken pox... requiring him to take time off work.. which he did not have any PTO accrued for. Thankfully he was able to use PTO donations (from other employees) to cover the time off.

I won't complain too loudly though.. they are a great corporation to work for, and have made many accomodations for us. DH was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma in his leg & lungs in May, and is currently undergoing chemotherapy at our local MD Anderson Cancer Center. The docs have devised a regimen that allows him to keep working, because no work, means no insurance, which means no cancer treatment... I can't say enough good things about Banner & MD Anderson..


No tricks from
Moonbaby, just treats!!

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by qwertypie on 10-02-12 at 08:36 PM
LAST EDITED ON 10-02-12 AT 08:37 PM (EST)

I am sorry you and DH are going through this, but it is nice to know he is with a company that has a heart.


I had the flu Christmastime 1999 and I swore NEVER AGAIN.
My father-in-law also caught the flu that year(probably from me). He had other health issues which means he should have been getting the flu shot but he didn't believe in vaccinations. He was hospitalized and ended up dying from a septicemia infection he picked up there a month later.

So I roll up my sleeve every year.

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by foonermints on 10-03-12 at 09:27 PM
It was the burning eye thing that got me. Creepy!


Gone Viral with Moonbabie!
..and the coughing. Not the bubbly I want! BLECH

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by qwertypie on 10-05-12 at 08:50 PM
Get it close enough to Halloween and you could have a wicked costume without even trying.
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by weltek on 10-03-12 at 09:44 AM
I get it every year. They make it easy with insurance-covered clinics set up on campus for employees.

I get it because:
1) I work on a university campus with lots of bodies passing through doors
2) My office is in a hospital with lots of sick people coming through
3) I ride public transportation almost daily during the week
4) I never get particuarly horrible bouts of influenza, but it's cheap insurance against it. I'm generally a better safe than sorry girl.

If any nerds are interested, the CDC has more information on the vaccine than you could possibly want to know.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm



-Handcrafted by RollDdice

"WoW!"
Posted by foonermints on 10-03-12 at 09:17 PM
Was that ever written by Wally Waffleface!

He's debating tonight, isn't he?

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by kidflash212 on 10-03-12 at 09:47 AM
I tell myself every year to get one and then don't. Haven't had more than the sniffles in years so maybe I am overconfident and one of these years will get the flu.
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by Molaholic on 10-03-12 at 09:58 AM
One of my colleagues likes to announce that she got her flu shot -- and she does it with the glee of a five-year-old telling what Santa brought. Me, I've gotten it once (even with nearly two decades in the classroom) and have never missed a day due to flu.

Alas, I have a sneaking suspicion that some upper level bureaucrap will mandate shots for teachers in the near future.

Soylent Green: recycling America, one person at a time.
siggie stolen from AyaK 1/26/2011

"No"
Posted by moonbaby on 10-03-12 at 01:56 PM
thank you, no.
"Aw C'mon"
Posted by foonermints on 10-03-12 at 09:23 PM
*poke*

I'll even slip the nurse an extra tenner for more DDT.
=Extra Fizz!


Za ZA ZINGO!

"Hey"
Posted by moonbaby on 10-05-12 at 09:35 PM
Put that away
"RE: Hey"
Posted by foonermints on 10-06-12 at 05:54 PM
*sigh* ok. But it's really a shame.. probably get more out of old sparky..
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by byoffer on 10-03-12 at 03:25 PM
I usually get one. It seems to me that my former employer used to arrange for it. Not sure if our socialized medicine covered part of the cost, but if not probably a small cost to employers to reduce expensive sick time.

The worst thing ever was taking my youngest a few years ago to get a shot. He was probably 4 at the time, and jumped when the nurse stuck him. She pulled the needle out, and then had to stick him again in the other arm! I had to put a full body-lock on him to enable this, and he was very angry with me. Not surprisingly the nurse had the cry medicine - a lollipop. Maybe she should have shown that first!

"Oh, darn it."
Posted by Estee on 10-05-12 at 05:54 PM
I thought you said through shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NrlIK_ArzeM#t=0s

"You want a flu shot."
Posted by kingfish on 10-05-12 at 06:40 PM
LAST EDITED ON 10-05-12 AT 06:52 PM (EST)

Read:
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry.

This was about the 1918 flu pandemic, and after reading it, you will not be shy about getting the shot.

It killed an estimated 40 million worldwide, and the virus that hit then was not much different (and could recur) from that deadly mutation. They were stacking bodies in the streets of cities, much like they did during the middle ages in the Black Plague.

Very scary. We probably all had ancestors (no matter where in the world we lived) who died then. And it's effect on the terms of the treaty signed after WWI (the Treaty of Versailles, which set the stage for WWII) is startling. We are still living with how that flu epidemic changed borders and history.

There are other accounts also, and they are probably as good, but this one floored me.

"Now:"
Posted by Estee on 10-05-12 at 07:00 PM
In two minutes or less, blame it on Obamacare.
"RE: Now:"
Posted by kingfish on 10-05-12 at 07:57 PM

What's the use, he'd just blame Bush.
"RE: You want a flu shot."
Posted by foonermints on 10-05-12 at 08:11 PM
»No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War.«

I just ordered it. Sounds like my kind of book. Thanks!


Handcrafted by RollDdice
Wait, Fish read?

"RE: You want a flu shot."
Posted by kingfish on 10-05-12 at 09:26 PM
Yeah, all the little fry go to school. We do have to use fish eye lenses. And turning pagers with fins is a pain.
"RE: You want a flu shot."
Posted by foonermints on 10-21-12 at 04:03 PM
Are the Fry finished with that dreadful fascinating book?
Sheesh, I didn't need The History of the World, but overall it was very good. Lots of incompetency! Like the Obama administration..
I believe that it did kill closer to 100 million.
I've talked to a few people that made it through that time, and it sounds pretty horrible. Even my mom was born in 1917, and it's a good thing she made it*.

MoonieBebe: making flunermints put his toys back in the box..
*Obviously..

Although that could be considered controversial. Ony from evil, EVIL peple. Mean too. AND stupid. Uh OH! Am I on a political rant?

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by Colonel Zoidberg on 10-05-12 at 06:49 PM
I've gotten two flu shots in my life. Both times, I got horribly sick that winter. Granted, I don't fault the flu shot for a horrible stomach flu, but there's a chance it should have stupped some kind of respiratory bronchial infection thing I got that cost me four days of work two years ago.

I'm not saying flu shots are worthless, counteproductive, or trying to go all Jenny McCarthy on people. I've just had crappy luck with flu shots. So I don't get them anymore.

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by moonbaby on 10-05-12 at 09:34 PM
I'm not saying flu shots are worthless, counteproductive, or trying to go all Jenny McCarthy on people. I've just had crappy luck with flu shots. So I don't get them anymore.

Yep. Well said.

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by KeithFan on 10-13-12 at 01:23 AM
Really cheap insurance, when you consider the cost in productivity and possibility of spreading it to someone with an underlying medical condition.

My wife sets them up and knocks them down in the pediatric clinic, I set them up and knock down the adults at the store. Some year we are going to give them to each other and call it foreplay.

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by jbug on 10-13-12 at 07:47 PM
*snort*
"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by foonermints on 10-13-12 at 09:18 PM
*poke*


C'mere..

"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by agman on 10-21-12 at 05:53 PM
I'm surprised you didn't tell her to bend over!


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"RE: Flu Shot!"
Posted by qwertypie on 10-21-12 at 05:48 PM
Problem is every year I get it (including this one), I spend the next few weeks freaked I am getting Guillaine Barre Syndrome. The tingly is probably due to tunnel carpel, but still.
"Tingles?"
Posted by foonermints on 10-21-12 at 06:00 PM
I used to give that to girls all the time. /self delusion
"RE: Tingles?"
Posted by agman on 10-22-12 at 12:46 PM
I did too!




that makes me a legend in my own mind!.....

"Nah"
Posted by foonermints on 10-22-12 at 01:39 PM
You were probably thinking of this:

People just died of fright around you?

"RE: Nah"
Posted by agman on 10-22-12 at 03:36 PM
The Tingler?????? That sounds like some kind of sex toy!



Not that there's anything wrong with that!

"...So"
Posted by foonermints on 12-22-12 at 01:42 AM
I finally, actually GOT a flu shot on Thursday (very busy, you know) and had a "mild reaction" today..
About twenty hours later:

All joints freeze up from the sandpaper someone snuck in there. "Achy" ain't the word.
Eyes turn "Bango Purple - Crayola color= ?
Eyes itch to the point of rubbing them into double vision. Sadly, I've been familiar with double vision, and also blame having a shot or two.
Fever! My beautiful face turned into a Brandywine Tomato!
Fatigue. I turned useless inside of 10 minutes. Properly Zombified, I still stayed at work this afternoon to collect my miserable paycheck. *secret lazy grin*

So, go get one! The real thing must really whack you!

leBeebe Veerall
Don't fret, the new needles are quite small, about the size of a #16 galvanized sinker nail. About that smooth too. You'll never even think about it.
Unfortunately the serum is very viscous. After they extract the needle, if they're able to stop the bleeding, a nurse has to push the bump around for a few minutes so it doesn't disfigure your arm too much.

"RE: ...So"
Posted by cahaya on 12-22-12 at 01:47 AM
Joints freeze up from something snuck in there? Eyes (among other things) turn purple? Double vision? Fever with a flushed face? Fatigue after 10 minutes?

Are you really sure it's from the flu shot? Hah!


Passengers on fooner's crazytrain

"RE: ...So"
Posted by foonermints on 12-22-12 at 10:49 AM
You can't even buy anything this good on the street for only thirty smackers. ALSO the pharmacy gimme a $5 gift card!
foonermint: winning the lottery, or what?
*KLUNK*
"RE: ...So"
Posted by WyoGuy44 on 12-22-12 at 02:44 PM
I had the same reaction to my first and last flu shot. Never again

Handcrafted by Agman
"Sadly"
Posted by foonermints on 12-23-12 at 12:37 PM
I'm around too many stinky mutants.

"I'm needlephobic..."
Posted by cahaya on 12-23-12 at 12:46 PM
... but I'm a nursophile!

I'll let her give me an injection if she lets me give her an injection!

"RE: I'm needlephobic..."
Posted by foonermints on 12-23-12 at 01:29 PM
That needle just doesn't say "Love Potion #9" to me.

"RE: I'm needlephobic..."
Posted by cahaya on 12-23-12 at 01:46 PM
I told her that I was a flop with chics
I've been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign
She said "What you need is Love Potion Number Nine"

Well, make that since 1957.

"RE: I'm needlephobic..."
Posted by foonermints on 12-23-12 at 03:17 PM
Some of us didn't get lucky until 1971.