It is that time of year again folks, get your flu shot. JC and I both have had ours.
It is a MUST for people 65 years of age and older. Residents of long-term care facilities and people who have long-term health problems such as:
heart disease
lung disease
asthma
kidney diseas
metabolic disease, such as diabetes
anemia, and other blood disorders
The best time to get influenza vaccine is in October or November. The flu season usually peaks in February, but it can peak any time from November through May. So getting the vaccine now is best.
If you are around a lot of people, or in any of the service fields, protect yourself and your family. Get the shot.
Got mine on friday, and a pneumonia shot as well. I’ve gotten a flu shot every year for at least the last ten years, never yet had any ill effects from the shot.
May you all have a healthy fall and winter. Guess we might as well throw in spring and summer as well.
Bob
There is a fine line between fly fishing, and standing in the water waving a stick.
Flu shots in the past were “attenuated” which means the viri weren’t totally killed so indeed could on occasion cause the flu…usually less severe…now the viri are killed and do not cause the flu…maybe a little soreness at the injection site.
It’s no longer a valid reason not to get the vaccine.
I had a regular blood draw yesterday, and
also had both tetnus and pneumonia shots as it had been five years since I had either.
(Actually I couldn’t remember how long it had been since I had the tetnus…a very long time)
My doctor keeps me up to date on the tetanus shots…he’s heard tales of my fishing adventures (hey, Elliott! Barbed wire, or bead heads?)!! Know he’ll hit me with the flu shot tomorrow when I’m there.
Whoa!! I was told I wasn’t “old enough” for the flu shot this round! Nurse said I had to wait till November! Then the Doc came in. Needless to say I did get the flu shot today. High risk due to the stroke I had a while back.
Another thing, for your safety, health and well being … change the batteries in your smoke detector when you turn the clocks back!
I just came from the doctor(check-up) and asked about flu shot. Now this doctor will ‘talk’ with his patients and he explained to me that the shot has an effective life span of about 6 months. I don’t think his office received the vaccines yet but he suggested I wait about 2-3 weeks before getting it. He said just stop in and ask to get it.
Casting sounds like just the ticket to
work out that soreness from the shots. I’ll
never forget back in bootcamp four decades
ago when we got our bicillen shots (spelling
is suspect), not in the shoulder, but in the
(use your imagination here), and next
morning, we were repeatedly run through the
obstacle course. Ouchie! Warm regards,
Jim
For you folks who are in teh “old fart” categorgy as I am or have a chronic disease, GET your shots!!! Especially get the pneumo shot and also get the flu shot. Course the flu shot won’t make no difference if’n the bird flu goes human to haman but no one knows if’n this strain will or will not mutate into a human to human transmission strain. either way, get your pneumo and flu shots. The most common life-threatenin secondary infection following an influennza infection is bacterial pneumonia so GET YOUR IMMUNIZATIONS! God bless–reuel
I think it had something to do with the
navy getting thier first draftee’s the week
after I arrived at Great Lakes, Illinois.
Every now and then the snow’s turned to
sleet or rain and made it even tougher on
the hundreds of recruits living in tents on
what we called parking lots and they called
grinders. I believe they were afraid of
some communicable illness taking the lot of
us out of commission. I developed pneumonia
and got to spend almost a whole day in the
dispensary. This was when Nam was going
full tilt. Warm regards, Jim
My wife gives me mine. I think she like’s to get even that way. She is the county health nurse here and gives most of the older people in the area there’s. I do believe she pratices on me LOL. In truth she gives a good shot if there is such a thing?
I do know one of the police officers in town told me that she is the one person in town that will never get a ticket from him. He said she could run any red light or do 80 mph down main street and she was home free. Seems he hates shots and they scare the heck out of him. Funny as he is the biggest officer in town he stands about 6’5" and is about 280 pds. Funny how a little shot can get some people like that? Ron
RkyMtnGuy, worse than needles are those air gun-style injectors that blow the vaccine into your arm. When I went thru the shot line at Ft. Lewis, a guy about 3-4 people in front of me flinched in spite of the strongly worded instructions to literally not move a muscle. That thing tore up part of his arm, at least superficially. I got there and rivalled a marble statue for immobility (I was scared stiff). I’ll take the needle, thank you very much.
My sister is a nurse and she and others say that it is often the biggest guys who get the queasiest around needles or blood.
oldfrat,
I doubt it was the flu shot. The vaccine doesn’t cover all possible strains of flu viri…just the ones the powers that be figure are going to be the most likely in a particular year…you probably got a strain that wasn’t covered.
To each his own…I used to do what you are doing when the viri were only attenuated but can’t see the rationale for not getting a shot nowadays…unless one is allergic or something.
Ron