Flu Shot

Bawanna

Bawanna

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Most years the police department offers free flu shots to employee's. Sometimes even family members.

I just got one. I just wanted to share how brave I was. I didn't cry (although I wanted to).

The most upsetting part is nurse didn't even have any lollipops for brave little troopers like me.

I had he give it to me in my left arm since I don't use that arm for much no how cept I do go in circles a lot when I don't use it.

We'll see how it goes, usually I get the flu when I get the shot, I think it's all a plot sometimes.
 
I used to skip the flu shot most every year. It made sense. I work around massive quantities of sanitizing chemicals. Also, flu season happens during my dead season. I was lucky to see more than 5 people a week in the shop :D

...then my daughter came along. Day care happened. I think I was sick from October through April 4 years straight...even with the flu shot.

Elementary school is a bit better. Still nasty, germy kids, but they (generally) aren't slobbering all over each other like at day care. Jr High and High School?...might be back to square one:rolleyes:

I'm going to pop into Target in the next couple weeks for my flu shot. The pharmacist there is a surgeon with a needle. I don't even feel her stick me.

...still, no lollipops there either. I did get a Star Wars bandaid though:)
 
Every time I get the flu shot I get the flu. No shot, no flu. Will I be getting one? Nope.

It's happened so many years in a row that I'm not buying the doctor's "oh it's coincidence, you should get the shot" bullsh!t excuse. (flu shot and getting the flu for 8 years vs. not getting the flu shot and not getting the flu for the past 6 years)
 
AntDog said:
Every time I get the flu shot I get the flu. No shot, no flu. Will I be getting one? Nope.

It's happened so many years in a row that I'm not buying the doctor's "oh it's coincidence, you should get the shot" bullsh!t excuse. (flu shot and getting the flu for 8 years vs. not getting the flu shot and not getting the flu for the past 6 years)
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I Take d3 10,000 Iu. A good multivitamin, I like tangy tangerine or opti-men. wash my hands a lot, eat mostly healthy foods and my immune system is nice and high. I've had the flu twice in my 43 years. I never get flu shots but my girlfriend has had pneumonia 2 times and it almost killed her, so it's highly recommended she gets a flu shot. Flu shots are a choice or a necessity for a lot of people and benefit those.
 
I used to never get the flu shot, and hardly ever got the flu. When my daughter was a newborn, they made the parents get flu shots. Whenever I get the flu shot, I usually feel a little "under the weather" for a day or so, and if I do get the flu (which has happened 5 out of 6 years), it's only for 4 - 5 days at the most, so I guess the flu shot does help.

Jake is right, these kids are like little germ sponges, and then bring them all home and give them to us parents....:mad:
 
My kids are out of school but I think the co workers with little kids still transmit the stuff.

I'm with Antdog, I've gotten the flu a lot more when I got the shot than I did when I didn't. I need to quit listening to other people and go with what works.

If I get the flu this year, no more shots for me.

Have a friend that never gets sick, I told him he must treat his body like a temple to remain so healthy.
His response was nope, I abuse myself relentlessly with alcohol, tobacco, and poor eating habits, makes it so germs don't want to even go there.
 
I was told by a winemaker that there is no known pathogen that can survive in red wine. I keep myself pumped full of that and 100 proof bourbon. Healthy...but flammable.

I actually do find healthy living works pretty well. I eat right, try to get at least 6 hours of sleep, wash my hands A LOT, and exercise during flu season. I've found that if I "power through" the sniffles, I can kick a cold faster than if I lay down and "die". I guess doing a bit of strenuous work kicks the immune system into overdrive and wards it off.

Now, if I wake up with a fever or feel like i can't get out of bed, I stay home. No sense in damaging myself over something that is as trivial as a day of work.
 
i avoid little kids like the plague. pun intended. :) major disease carriers. their bite is worse than the bacteria miasma of a komodo dragon'e mouth. they use projectile vomiting as a weapon if you even look at them funny, as well as discharging various bodily fluids in copious amounts from all orifices. i include anyone under the age of thirty.

got my flu shot mid-september. local pharmacy has a nurse in on tuesdays to give them, free for us old farts over 65. they started making the juice months ago, every year they guess what strain of flu will be spreding about to make the stuff from. like a crap shoot, sometimes they get it right & you don't even notice as you don't get sick. sometimes they don't and you are miserable and vow never to have the shot again, condemning yourself to flu every year. sometimes it's only partially effective, you get the sniffles a bit and a few aches and chalk it up to a cold or a 24 hr. bug.

i do remember that when i was stationed in NOLA, we were required to get a mandatory 'volunteer' flu shot, bit like the mandatory payroll deduction for the united fund. we all lined up, they were using a high pressure spray gun that injected the stuff without a needle. warned not to move or the spray would gut you like a fish. big over 6ft. blonde surfer type in front of me was laughing at the ones in front of him who were making faces, or grimacing or even ouching out loud, calling their manhood into question and telling them to man up. got to him. he passed out. gerflump onto the floor. he never lived that one down. got mine. it stung a little bit, no big deal. i was more interested in the machinery they used.
 
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Bawanna said:
Have a friend that never gets sick, I told him he must treat his body like a temple to remain so healthy.
His response was nope, I abuse myself relentlessly with alcohol, tobacco, and poor eating habits, makes it so germs don't want to even go there.
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I can honestly say that for the 16 years I was an alcoholic (drinking 2 bottles of Remy Martin a day, not including wine, beer, other spirits...etc), I not once got majorly sick, like the flu or anything else. A stuffy/runny nose, allergy, slight cough, here and there, but nothing like now (I'm sober (8 years), and smoke free now (2 years)). I guess there is some truth that bad things in your system, keeps the bugs away, or kills them upon contact, but I prefer my life now, rather than like it was before. I can handle the flu shot for now, but one day, I may go back to not receiving it every year.

I'm on the fence about whether it actually works or not. Does it help when I actually get the flu, yea, I think so, because I do seem to recover faster than without the shot. The actually chances of the flu shot matching an exact flu bug and you not getting any symptoms due to the vaccination is about 2%. That's because the flu virus mutates about every 15 seconds. The top 20 strains that they use in the vaccine is just an educated guess and they hope that when you catch a flu, it is a strain of one of those that they included in that year's flu shot. This year, they also included the H1N1 virus too.
 
"They use projectile vomiting as a weapon if you even look at them funny, as well as discharging various bodily fluids in copious amounts from all orifices. i include anyone under the age of thirty."

I do all those things myself from time to time.
 
panda cubs can also be a bit of a handfull.
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My 2 year old granddaughter can be a lot like them panda cubs some days.

I'm feeling just a bit rejected by our geographical separation reasoning. I mean a little bodily fluid discharge could happen to anyone.

Doesn't seem to bother the my friends in the moat.......do you want to start seeing other people?
 
only the girl on your car hood. it's getting kinda crowded in here, what with the vampires, shape shifters, moat monsters, dire wolves, the odd mega-velociraptor, the two dragons, and the panda cubs as well as HRH Poppy I. also the moat monsters have adopted a pair of 8 metre saltwater crocs as pets. they hug 'em and sueeze 'em and call them both 'george', today they dressed them up in pink tutus and tied them up to their lemonade stand. (£1.00 a cup). sadly, there were no customers. there were reports of a number of missing tourists in the area tho. wonder where they went...
 
Your the first to notice the girl on my car hood or perhaps more accurately Uncle Bills car hood.
The girl is actually Yangdu's niece who grew up in Nepal and lived with Pala for many years.
Currently going to college in New York I think she said.
The car is currently on the market but I'll start another thread on that.
 
Hmmmmm. Little kids.....germ sponges......think I'll go get a Bawanna shot!
 
Gotta warn ya, all bawanna shots are given directly in the buttocks! There I said it out loud.........
 
HAHAHAHA! you said the B' word! :D

...and in the background i'm watching a natgeo hd episode about lake titicaca. not often you get to say titty and kaka in the same sentence without getting sent to the principla's office...
no mention of atlatls yet tho.
 
kronckew said:
i do remember that when i was stationed in NOLA, we were required to get a mandatory 'volunteer' flu shot, bit like the mandatory payroll deduction for the united fund. we all lined up, they were using a high pressure spray gun that injected the stuff without a needle. warned not to move or the spray would gut you like a fish. big over 6ft. blonde surfer type in front of me was laughing at the ones in front of him who were making faces, or grimacing or even ouching out loud, calling their manhood into question and telling them to man up. got to him. he passed out. gerflump onto the floor. he never lived that one down. got mine. it stung a little bit, no big deal. i was more interested in the machinery they used.
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Oh yeah, one of the hydraulic injectors. They stopped using those because they discovered that they did actually spread disease. Turns out a little bit of flesh and blood gets shot up into the injector with every injection, and then some of that gets shot into the other people to be injected with it.
 
Scara said:
Oh yeah, one of the hydraulic injectors. They stopped using those because they discovered that they did actually spread disease. Turns out a little bit of flesh and blood gets shot up into the injector with every injection, and then some of that gets shot into the other people to be injected with it.
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interesting. don't recall them ever using it on us again, now i know why. thanks for the info.
 
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