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Yes, it's that time of year.
Back in the day, my place of gainful employment provided the venue and the schedule. These days I have to do it myself. No, not give myself the shot, do all the arranging.
So I did that, Thursday afternoon. Wasn't a bad stick, barely felt it.
That evening I was fine.
Friday morning, got up, decided that the lawn wasn't going to mow itself and that I'd have to do it.
Saturday, I'll do it Saturday.
This shot is, pardon my French, kicking my ass.
Blah ...
Don't feel like writing either.
I'll be back.
No, really.
Have you ever Not taken the influenza vaccine and see if your own immune system was good enough?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in the military, I was forced to take it (except for those years I scheduled my leave to avoid it). When I didn't take it although I work at the hospital (you know where SICK people go) I was fine, barely a 24 hour don't feel good session. The years I did take it got very sick as in days and once a trip to the hospital over it.
Since I retired but still work at the hospital, I've never taken it (nor the COVID "Vaccine") and despite working through Avian Flu, H1N1, Ebola scare and so on never (knocking on wood here) got more than a day of hot kimchee soup blahs.
The Flu vaccine takes about 6 months so is best guess against a rapidly mutating virus.
Correlation of % vaccinated and % of general population (including unvaccinated) has been shown to be at best 50-50 over the decades of the annual flu shot.
When you feel "off" a day of rest and hot soup and tomorrow your apt to be feeling better. Almost like God built us like that.
Missed the flu shot twice in 50 years, both times I came down with the flu in a big way. Decided not to miss one again, ever.
DeleteGot the flu shot Tuesday, Wednesday the injection site was tender, Thursday the left shoulder felt sore moving it in certain directions, Friday....everything painful/sore gone, back to normal. I stopped getting sick every year when I retired because I no longer had contact with the public five days a week. Rest up Sarge, grass cutting can wait......:)
ReplyDeleteResting up, Aye!
DeleteSarge, I hope it passes soon. I have not taken it more often than I have and do not really know if it has had an impact those years I have. That, and I hate feeling lusy after a shot.
ReplyDeleteThe two times I got the flu I decided that the shot was the lesser of two evils. So far, so good, knock on wood.
DeleteSigh. "Lusy" = "lousy". Travel days where I have to use the phone are the worst...
DeleteI knew that. 😉
DeleteI hope you feel better soon, my friend. The krauts can’t stay in one place too long, they’re relying on you to get them home safely. So take it easy, take your meds and follow your Doc’s instructions. A bit of kidding in my second sentence, NONE in the third! Get well soon.
ReplyDeletejuvat
No meds involved, just the post-shot blahs, happens every year. One or two days and I'm right as rain.
DeleteI don't do well with flu shots. Feel like something the dog threw up for a few days. And half the time got the flu anyway. When I didn't get the shot, got the flu sometimes, sometimes didn't.
ReplyDeleteSame for the COVID shot - felt like fecal matter for two days, and was dragging for two weeks after each of the primary shots. Got the first booster, same story. And got COVID anyway. At one point I was at my computer, heard a THUD and was on the floor, chair overturned, bowels and bladder had cut loose (fortunately, I was fully clothed and had overturned onto the "Piddle pads" we had put down for our toy poodle, I'm convinced that I almost died there, but the THUD shocked me back). So, no more COVID shots, and flu shots are not likely.
Had covid, a mild case, my doc recommended I get the vaccine anyway, which confused me. When she asked if I had gotten the 2nd booster I asked her for a valid scientific reason to do so. She couldn't, so I'm done with covid "vaccines" - I'll let big pharma steal someone else's money and health.
Delete“When it’s so good that it has to be mandated”… I had 2 shots although I am pretty sure I had the pox before the vax was distributed. Flying from Europe to the States was an ordeal (until you got on the plane). Akchewly the vaccine that kicked my butt the most was for Yellow Fever.
ReplyDeleteArgh, yellow fever, I remember that one.
DeleteGot mine at the VA last week. If not for the band-aid (WHEN did they start doing THAT?), you'd never know. Barely even felt the shot.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the band-aid, if it ain't bleeding?
DeleteDoc ask every year if I want their yearly shot for whatever. He smiles because my answer is always no and then says I'm the healthiest 80+ that he see.
ReplyDeleteYearly shots, yup, I think they're starting to invent new diseases.
DeleteEvery person's immune system is unique to that person. I haven't had a flu shot in over twenty years and haven't had the flu, unless a bad cough counts. Never had, nor will I ever have, a COVID shot. What works for me may not work for others. The one inoculation I do get is tetanus. Again, personal choice. What won't happen is having some government types telling me what I will do.
ReplyDeleteYup, the gubmint can go ...
DeleteStarted questioning vaccines when I got 'the worst case of shingles' my doc had ever seen. Cost to treat the shingles was $10.00, including some weird drug and an antibiotic. He recommended I get the vaccine and do a follow up a year later, at $250 a cycle, and that to provide between 50-60% protection to it coming back, versus about 50-60% chance of it coming back...
ReplyDeleteYeah... no....
We are fundamentally more healthy not taking the annual flu vaccine. Then again we are no longer around various disease vectors and their parents who are secondary disease vectors, so...
And, of course, everyone has different results.
Pretty sure we both had Covid, as there was and is a very large West Taiwanese population in Gainesville, and had it before everyone started freaking out (weird flu in August or September of 2019 right around a lot of West Taiwanese students had family come for 'extended vacations.')
Almost as if they knew what was coming. Following orders no doubt.
DeleteThe boss/owner of my last place of employment did considerable business in China - both machining and injection molding- and returned from a 6 week business trip there just before Thanksgiving of 2019. Most of the office and half of the machinists came down with some persistent crud by the end of the first week of December. We were all sick for 3 or 4 weeks. Fever, cough, sore throat, aches and pains, fatigue. We just wrote it off as a bad cold or flu.
DeleteWell, it was, sort of ...
DeleteNo comments of wisdom or folly of flu shots, but I get them.
ReplyDeleteThis year they had a new sort of band aid- round one with raised lip all the way around, and just a thin layer in the center and no padding, They put this on and then stick the victim right thru the center part which then is self sealing and contains any minor bleeding.
Hope you are feeling better and the hay mowing gets done. We've been seeing farmers harvesting corn crops for the last 4 days as we motor west across the heartland, plains and mountain west.
This is a WONDERFUL COUNTRY to see!
JB
If I don't get better soon, I might have to hire some cows to knock the grass down!
DeleteAnd yes, we live in a beautiful land, diverse, all sorts of terrain and climate. It's pretty awesome.
Never had one, I am 60, and have had flu once, in 1978.
ReplyDeleteIt's my experience that if you get them every year, then miss a year, you get the flu. Didn't get the flu before I joined the USAF, where the shot was mandatory. After that, every year, missed the shot twice, got the flu both times.
DeleteYMMV